Funkhouser Memorial
Albert Craig Funkhouser
March 23, 1893 - June 15, 1919
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• Applied for admission to Signal Corps, Aviation School, Jacksonville, Florida, April 17, 1917, and to first Officers' Training Camp, Fort Harrison, April 25, 1917. Volunteered as Sergeant Chauffeur, Quartermasters Corps, at Louisville, Ky., June 2, 1917. Sent to Fort Harrison, Sept. 26, 1917. and assigned to Motor Truck Company 134, transferred to Motor Truck Company No. 352.
  
  
• Sent to Camp Bowie, Fort Worth, Texas, October 17, 1917.
  
  
• Admitted to Third Officers' Training Camp, Camp Bowie, Jan. 5, 1918; graduated April 19, 1918, and assigned to Co. K, 142 Inf., as Sergeant; honorably discharged to accept commission, and was commissioned as 2nd Lieutenant in National Army, May 18, 1918, and assigned to Co. B, 144th Inf., Sept. 25, 1918.
  
  
• Embarked at Camp Mills, Long Island (N.Y.) for France, July 17, 1918, on U.S.S. George Washington.
  
  
• Arrived at Brest, France, July 29, 1918. Admitted to 1st Corps Training School at Gondrecourt, France, Aug. 26, 1918, and graduated Sept. 21, 1918, and re-assigned to Co. F, 144th Inf.
  
  
• Commissioned First Lieutenant, Oct. 27, 1918. His Division (36th) was brigaded with the Fourth French Army, (General Gouraud), and was engaged in the great Champagne advance from Oct. 6th to Oct. 28, 1918.
  
  
• Moving from the front the Division reached Conde-en-Barrios Area on Nov. 3rd, as a part of the Armies Reserves of the First American Army. From this area the Division moved, Nov. 18th, to the 16th Training Area, Tonnerre, Yonne, Co. F, being located at Rugny.
  
  
• The Division on the 18th day of October, 1918, was cited by General Gaulin (Corps Commander) as follows:
  
  

  "The 36th Division of recent formation, and as yet incompletely organized was ordered on the night of Oct. 6 and 7 to relieve, under condition particularly delicate, the 2nd American Division to dislodge the enemy from the crests north of St. Etienne and the Arnes, and throw him back to the Aisne. Although being under fire for the first time, the young soldiers of General Smith, rivaling in their combative spirit and tenacity the old and valiant regiments of General Lejeune, have accomplished their mission in its entirety. All may be proud of the task they accomplished. To all the General commanding the army corps is happy to address the most cordial expression of his recognition and his best wishes for their future service. The past is proof of the future."

  
  
  
• GAULIN: Lieutenant Funkhouser was wounded in the right knee and in the right hand in this engagement, but continued in action. He was awarded the Croix de Guerre by the French Republic, for gallantry.
  
  
• On the 22d day of Nov., 1918, he was appointed Acting Town Major for Co.'s E and F, Daillancourt, France.
  
  
• On the 25th day of May, 1919, he embarked at Brest, France, in charge of Casual Company 875 and landed at Newport News, Virginia, June 9,1919, ill of lobar pneumonia, and died Sunday, June 15, 1919 at Embarkation Hospital, Camp Stewart, from pneumonia and the effects of poisonous gas inhaled on the battlefield.
  
  
• He was buried from Bayard Park M. E. Church, with full military honors at Oak Hill Cemetery, Evansville, Indiana, June 19, 1919.
  
  

Source:
Funkhouser Memorial
c. 1920
pp. 5-8

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