PRIVATE
EDWARD B. MAY, of 428 Pearl Street, Camden NJ, enlisted into the United
States Army on June 15, 1918 at the age of 18. He was sent to Fort
Slocum NY, and was assigned to the Insurance Department, Quartermaster
Corps. He was later transferred to the Medical Corps, serving at
Debarkation Hospital No. 1, on Ellis Island in New York Harbor.
While
home on a furlough for the Christmas holidays, Private May contracted
scarlet fever, and died on December 29, 1918. He was survived by his
mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Woltjin. He had been a member of the
First
Presbyterian Church which stood at 501
Penn
Street.
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