ISOB Opsommer
Details:
In the center of the cemetery. Isolated Burial
A private gravestone; a dark gray inscribed upright stone.
Private Raymond Opsommer was born in Deinze, Belgium in 1891. He immigrated to the US in the early 1900s and settled in the Detroit, Michigan area. During World War 1 he enlisted and served in the 113th Infantry Regiment of the 33rd Infantry Division. The 113th Regiment, upon arriving in France, was assigned to train in the British sector in the Somme. Private Opsommer was killed in action during the Battle of Amiens on August 12, 1918.
After the war his family requested that he be reburied in his hometown in Belgium in the Deinze Community Cemetery,
Monument Text:
1914 1918
RAYMOND OPSOMMER
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People:
Units:
113th Infantry Regiment, 33rd Infantry Division
33rd Infantry Division
Wars:
WWI
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