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This title is printed to order. This book may have been self-published. If so, we cannot guarantee the quality of the content. In the main most books will have gone through the editing process however some may not. We therefore suggest that you be aware of this before ordering this book. If in doubt check either the author or publisher’s details as we are unable to accept any returns unless they are faulty. Please contact us if you have any questions.
This is a reproduction of the 1982 book by Bob Lindsey of the Corry, PA native Charles Keating. Keating was a man who, at age thirty-eight, enlisted in the U. S. Army to fight in France in World War I. He had recently graduated from embalming school and was assigned to Graves Registration in the Quartermaster Corps. After the war, as a civilian employee of the U. S. Government, and was involved with the selection of the Unknown Soldier. The front cover shows the pallbearers, followed by French and American officials, who carried the casket to the square in front of the railroad station at La Have, France. The casket was placed on a caisson while school children showered it with flowers. Keating can be recognized as the man in civilian clothing without a hat and with a medal on the left lapel of his coat.
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This title is printed to order. This book may have been self-published. If so, we cannot guarantee the quality of the content. In the main most books will have gone through the editing process however some may not. We therefore suggest that you be aware of this before ordering this book. If in doubt check either the author or publisher’s details as we are unable to accept any returns unless they are faulty. Please contact us if you have any questions.
This is a reproduction of the 1982 book by Bob Lindsey of the Corry, PA native Charles Keating. Keating was a man who, at age thirty-eight, enlisted in the U. S. Army to fight in France in World War I. He had recently graduated from embalming school and was assigned to Graves Registration in the Quartermaster Corps. After the war, as a civilian employee of the U. S. Government, and was involved with the selection of the Unknown Soldier. The front cover shows the pallbearers, followed by French and American officials, who carried the casket to the square in front of the railroad station at La Have, France. The casket was placed on a caisson while school children showered it with flowers. Keating can be recognized as the man in civilian clothing without a hat and with a medal on the left lapel of his coat.