Leon Nicholas Sauer - Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Army Rank: Mechanic (1918).

Assigned Unit: Sanitary Squad #2, 32^nd Division

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Army Discharge: 1919

Remarks:  Overseas Jan. 24, 1918 – 1919

Torpedoed on the Transport Tuscania Feb. 5, 1918

Address: 270 24^th St, Milwaukee, WI (1900)(1917)(1920)

Address: 753 E. Homer St., Milwaukee, WI (1938)

Member of the Tuscania Survivors Association

Wife’s name: Katherine

Fathers Name:  Frederick Nicholas Sauer (b. Nov. 1863 Germany)

Mothers Name:  Emma Lucile Kearney (b. June 1, 1863 Iowa)

Brother: Frederick Kearney Sauer

Leo’s Civilian Occupation: Attorney

Born: Jan. 27, 1895 Racine, WI

Died: Dec. 9, 1967 Milwaukee, Wisconsin (age 72)

Internment: Dec. 11, 1967

Cemetery: St. Martin of Tours Cemetery, Franklin, Wisconsin

Plot: Division SHJM   Sect. 6  Block 0   Row 13  Grave 8

My great uncle Leon N. Sauer was a survivor of the Tuscania sinking. I remember my grandfather Frederick Kearney Sauer, telling me that he ran into his brother Leon walking down the street in Paris after being told he had died on the Tuscania. My grandfather was with the 101st Engineers.

Terry Sauer

April 21, 2007