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1LT Elmer Reinhold Bolinder

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1LT Elmer Reinhold Bolinder

Birth
Lynn, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA
Death
17 Feb 1919 (aged 21)
Mesves-sur-Loire, Departement de la Nièvre, Bourgogne, France
Burial
Swampscott, Essex County, Massachusetts, USA Add to Map
Plot
LOT 63, GRAVE 1, SUMMIT, KEY E-10, W.W.I
Memorial ID
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World War I Veteran, Killed in Action
Lot 63, Grave 1, Summit Avenue

Attended Harvard from 1915-1918
Son of Axel Reinhold Bolinder (1851-1960) and Ida Augusta (nee Jonsson) Bolinder (1860-1927).

Source: Records of the Adjutant General:
BOLINDER, ELMER REINHOLD, DMD '18. Enlisted private Medical Department July 6, 1917; assigned to Base Hospital #44; promoted sergeant June 14, 1918; sailed for France July 6; commissioned 1st lieutenant Medical Corps January 30, 1919; detailed to Evacuation Hospital No. 24 in February; died February 17, 1919 at Mesves Hospital Centre, France.

Source: Swampscott Honor Roll:
ELMER REINHOLD BOLINDER, First Lieutenant

Medical Department, American Expeditionary Force, Dental Service. Enlisted July 5, 1917. Died of spinal meningitis February 17, 1919, at Meserves Hospital Center, France. The remains were returned to the United States by the Government, arriving in Swampscott January 13, 1921, and were reinterred in the Swampscott Cemetery with military honors on January 16, 1921.

Commemorated on the WWI memorial, Swampscott, MA.
World War I Veteran, Killed in Action
Lot 63, Grave 1, Summit Avenue

Attended Harvard from 1915-1918
Son of Axel Reinhold Bolinder (1851-1960) and Ida Augusta (nee Jonsson) Bolinder (1860-1927).

Source: Records of the Adjutant General:
BOLINDER, ELMER REINHOLD, DMD '18. Enlisted private Medical Department July 6, 1917; assigned to Base Hospital #44; promoted sergeant June 14, 1918; sailed for France July 6; commissioned 1st lieutenant Medical Corps January 30, 1919; detailed to Evacuation Hospital No. 24 in February; died February 17, 1919 at Mesves Hospital Centre, France.

Source: Swampscott Honor Roll:
ELMER REINHOLD BOLINDER, First Lieutenant

Medical Department, American Expeditionary Force, Dental Service. Enlisted July 5, 1917. Died of spinal meningitis February 17, 1919, at Meserves Hospital Center, France. The remains were returned to the United States by the Government, arriving in Swampscott January 13, 1921, and were reinterred in the Swampscott Cemetery with military honors on January 16, 1921.

Commemorated on the WWI memorial, Swampscott, MA.


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