. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . ilitary serviceon January 5, 1918, when he enlisted in theArmy, and was assigned to Company A, 4thBattalion, U. S. Guards. He was honorablydischarged at Camp Meade, Md., January 6,1919, as Private 1st Class, and with service,honest and faithful. He had been back at hisduties with the Company about two weeksbefore his death, which occurred on February24 from double pneumonia. Not having any known relatives in this coun-try,^the remains were taken in charge by em-ployes and friends and interred at ForestGlen, W. Va., with appropriate services at thechurc
. Baltimore and Ohio employees magazine . ilitary serviceon January 5, 1918, when he enlisted in theArmy, and was assigned to Company A, 4thBattalion, U. S. Guards. He was honorablydischarged at Camp Meade, Md., January 6,1919, as Private 1st Class, and with service,honest and faithful. He had been back at hisduties with the Company about two weeksbefore his death, which occurred on February24 from double pneumonia. Not having any known relatives in this coun-try,^the remains were taken in charge by em-ployes and friends and interred at ForestGlen, W. Va., with appropriate services at thechurch. Rev. Z. J. Powers officiating. The casket was draped with the AmericanFlag, the Plant Service Flag and the Boy ScoutBanner. Military pallbearers in uniform were:R. H. Saville, M. L. Taylor, C. L. Kittle,C. W. Short, S. A. Wilson and H. Patrol, Green Spring Troop No. 1, BoyScouts of America, A. E. Irving, Acting Scout-master, acted as escort. Mr. Ruppel was of good character and anhonest and faithful soldier, who served two. The late Carl E. Ruppel enlistments. He was an efficient sc itmasterand took an untiring interest in his Scouts,whom he organized and trained. The effectsof his work along this line have been noticedand commended by observers who were noteven in close touch with his endeavors. It is interesting to note that although hewas born in Germany, he had become thor-oughly in love with American institutions andlife. He was not forced into the army to fightagainst the country of his birth, but with even the strongest convictions inregard to the righteousness of our cause, itmust have required a very unusual devotionto duty for him to take up arms, especiallywhen he remembered that his own brothershad been drawn into the Germany army andwere wearing its field gray uniform. Far away from his fatherland and loved ones,he nevertheless found a recompense for hisseparation, in the ideals of his adopted country;and an opportunity to help perpet
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