Honor Memory
of War Medal
Winner April 11
    Lieutentant
ALBERT E. BAESEL
    F uneral services for Second
Lieut. Albert E.. Baesel, the
only Ohio World War soldier
to receive the congressional medal
of honor will be held at Berea,
April 11 in Baldwin-Wallace college
conservatory. The Cleveland
Grays and members of Albert E.
Baesel American Legion post of
Berea, will have charge.
    Lieut. Baesel was a member of
the Grays and was among the first
of the troops to leave Ohio for service
in France. He was attached to
Company B, 148th Infantry, Thirty
seventh div-
ision. He was killed on
Sept. 18, 1918, near Ivory, France,
while trying to rescue a wounded corporal.
    In November, 1922, the con-
gressional medal was awarded to his widow
by the war department. This is the highest
honor a soldier may receive from the
government.
    Baesel’s body has just been
returned to the United States.
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