Modesto Daily Herald   Oct. 1920       <click here>

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Bert O. Weeks - Modesto, California

Army Rank: Sergeant (1918)

Assigned Unit: 100^th Aero Squadron, Signal Corps

Army Serial Number:

Inducted:

Remarks:  Overseas Jan. 24, 1918 – KIA

     Torpedoed on the Transport Tuscania Feb. 5, 1918

     Address: 120 McHenry Ave., Modesto, CA (1910)

     Address: 1733 Almond Street, Modesto, CA (1917)

Fathers Name: Claude (Clarence) R. Weeks

     (b. May 2, 1870 CA) (d. Nov. 30, 1923 CA)

Mothers Name: Esther Weeks

     (b. Nov. 19, 1875 CA) (d. Aug. 19, 1971 CA)

Brother: Leonard and Robert

Sisters: Mabel and Esther

Bert was Born: August 1895 California

Died: Feb. 6, 1918 Islay, Scotland (KIA) (age 23)

     Buried in Kilnaughton, Islay February 9, 1918.

     Body exhumed and relocated to American, Oct. 1920.

Cemetery: Pioneer Odd Fellows (IOOF) Cemetery, Modesto, CA.

     Address: 905 Scenic Drive, Modesto CA, 95350

Internment Date: Oct. 23, 1920

Plot: Section B   Tier 7   Grave 1