Bernard
Preston
Althoff
Born in Gettysburg, Adams, Pennsylvania, United States
Ancestors 
Son of William J Althoff
and Sarah Agnes (Collins) Althoff
Brother of
Anna Virginia (Althoff) Little, Mary Catherine (Althoff) Eckenrode, Agnes Minnie (Althoff) Wagaman, Cela W Althoff, Caroline Gertrude (Althoff) Myers, Harvey Jacob Althoff, Rose Gertrude (Althoff) Snyder, Bessie Theresa (Althoff) McSherry, Mary Stella (Althoff) Gouker, William John Althoff and Vincent Loyola Althoff
Died
at age 27
in France
Profile last modified
| Created 6 Apr 2015
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Biography
Sergeant Bernard Althoff served in the United States Army in World War I
Service started: 1917
Unit(s): Company B, 145th Infantry
Service ended: Sep 28, 1918
Service started: 1917
Unit(s): Company B, 145th Infantry
Service ended: Sep 28, 1918
Sergeant Bernard Althoff was Wounded in Action during World War I.
- He was the 11th of 12 children. He helped his father out with the farm and for a time lived in the household of his sister Bessie and her spouse.
- He moved to Ohio working in an insurance firm. He enlisted and was sent to Camp Sheridan and then on to Camp Lee in Virginia. In June of 1918 he sailed to France.
- York County and the World War page 43
- Sergeant Althoff was wounded in action [1], he is buried in Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Arlington County, Virginia, USA[2][3]
Census
- 1900 Mount Joy Township, Adams, Pennsylvania, United States[4]
- 1910 Gettysburg Ward 1, Adams, Pennsylvania, United States[5]
Sources
- ↑ Soldiers of the Great War, Volume III page 159, Haulsee, W. M.; Howe, F. G.; Doyle, A. C.,Washington, D.C.; Soldiers Record Publishing Association, 1920
- ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #57190158
- ↑ "Battle Wounds Cause of Death," The Gettysburg Times, 17 Oct 1918, p. 1, col. 6, Web (newspapers.com, accessed 11 Feb 2023).Newspapers Clip: 118456506.
- ↑ "United States Census, 1900," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MS1Z-VFT : accessed 31 May 2015), Bernard P. Althoff in household of William O Althoff, Mount Joy Township, Adams, Pennsylvania, United States; citing sheet 7A, family 124, NARA microfilm publication T623 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,241,354.
- ↑ "United States Census, 1910," index and images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:MGDM-1GL : accessed 31 May 2015), Bernard P Althoff in household of Samuel J Mc Sherry, Gettysburg Ward 1, Adams, Pennsylvania, United States; citing enumeration district (ED) 11, sheet 3B, family 85, NARA microfilm publication T624 (Washington, D.C.: National Archives and Records Administration, n.d.); FHL microfilm 1,375,305.
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Categories: Died of Wounds, United States of America, World War I | Mount Joy Township, Adams County, Pennsylvania | Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia | 145th Infantry Regiment, United States Army, World War I | Wounded in Action, United States of America, World War I