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PRIVATE
STEPHEN SLOMKOWSKI was born in what is now Poland on December 27,
1896. Stephen
Slomkowski and his family were living at 1240
North
25th Street in Camden's Cramer Hill neighborhood when he registered
for the draft on June of 1918. He had been working for the Public
Service Company which operated trolley cars out of their facility on
Newton Avenue. He was called up and inducted in the United States Army
on August 28, 1918 and sent to Camp Meade, Maryland where he trained
with the 154th Depot Company. On September 24 he was assigned to the
113th Engineer Regiment at Fort Benjamin Harrison, Indiana. Private
Slomkowski fell victim to the Spanish influenza epidemic that killed
millions in 1918 and 1919. He died of bronchial pneumonia on October 17,
1918.
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