Photo by Ellen Ferrera
Pictured is Russell Bauman.

Bauman Dog Tags Included

•September 6, 2017•

By Ellen Ferrera
for the News Progress

When Russell Bauman returned home from WW I in 1918, he put his Army footlocker in the attic of his home in Sullivan, and there it sat untouched for nearly 99 years.

Recently Russell’s 94-year old son Roy and his great-granddaughter Danielle opened it while doing some housecleaning.

It was like finding a buried treasure chest full of artifacts from a war in France long ago.

Among the items in the locker were a U.S. Army issue fork, two tin boxes, the tattered knapsack for all the items, a Star razor and blades, box of bandages, cardboard box with an unused tourniquet, metal token called the Big 500 which was good for five cents in trade at the bar, copy of the regimental newsletter Direct Fire dated Sept., 1918, and a golden Discharge button.      Login or Subscribe to read the rest of this story.