Marco Posted 8 March , 2009 Share Posted 8 March , 2009 Hello, Spoted the grave below in Brest (France) communal cemetery. Can anyone provide additional information? TIA! Regards, Marco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great War Truck Posted 8 March , 2009 Share Posted 8 March , 2009 Brest was the location of a MTC construction park, where newly arrived trucks would be assembled and serviced before allocation and despatch. Interestingly, our FWD was assembled at Brest just after the armistice. Who knows, maybe Freeman Squires worked on it. Tim (too) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco Posted 8 March , 2009 Author Share Posted 8 March , 2009 Hello Tim, Interesting! A relative of mine did the same in La Rochelle with train wagons: http://www.xs4all.nl/~aur/layout/frames.ht...als/breukel.htm Thanks, Kind regards, Marco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tinhat47 Posted 8 March , 2009 Share Posted 8 March , 2009 You can find out more about him here: http://www.wvculture.org/history/wvmemory/...il.aspx?Id=2740 Freeman G. Squires was born June 12, 1890 in Grove, West Virginia, son of Virgil and Eliza Squires. He was one of eight children and was a chauffeur in Salem, West Virginia before the war. He had brown hair and brown eyes. He was in the 310th Repair Unit of the Motor Transport Corps, which was created in Sept. 1918 as an extension of the Quartermaster Corps. He died on Nov. 21, 1918 of pneumonia at age 28. His name is on the West Virginia Veterans Memorial on the grounds of the capitol building in Charlestown, West Virginia along with the names of 10,000 other West Virginians who were killed in 20th Century wars. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marco Posted 8 March , 2009 Author Share Posted 8 March , 2009 Thanks Matt, most usefull. Kind regards, Marco Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Great War Truck Posted 8 March , 2009 Share Posted 8 March , 2009 Thanks Marco and Matt, that is all very interesting. Tim (too) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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