Pvt Bruce N Culmer, US Army Signal Corps (Aviation Section), 816th Aero Sqdn.
The son of William and Josephine Culmer, Bruce was born at Martinsville on 8 January 1890. A graduate of Illinois and Indiana State universities, he was an employee of a railroad company at the time of his enlistment on 27 November 1917. After training at Pittsburgh and Chicago he was transferred to Camp Mineola on Long Island where he was attached to 816 Aero Squadron. He was killed in an air crash at Mineola on 9 July 1918 and is now buried at Martinsville.
9 July 1918
Research by David O'Mara, Croonaert Research Services.
