Bernard Henry Osterhage
Kentucky Post, Tuesday, 17 July 1917, page 1
Bernard Osterhage, 17, of Third and Boone streets, Dayton, is
fighting "somewhere in France" a letter to his mother Tuesday stated. Young
Osterhage writes that he is hale and hearty and that all the members of the
American expeditionary forces are well pleased with France.
When the lad made the trip across the ocean he was not allowed to write home. This caused his father to inquire of War Department officials at Washington as to his whereabouts.
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Kentucky Post, Wednesday, 29 August 1917, page 3
"This is the life" writes Bernard Osterhage of Third and Boone streets, Dayton, to his mother from France. Osterhage is a marine with the American expeditionary forces in France. He writes he is having a good time, but that he gets lonesome now and then.
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Kentucky Post, Thursday, 13 September 1917, page 1
"We certainly are proud of our boys and only wish we had a few more to give to Uncle Sam!" That's the way H C Osterhage and wife, 931 Third av. Dayton, talk about their sons, Bernard, 17, now serving with the Marines in France, and John, 21, with the Marine Corps in some eastern port.
John wrote to his mother last week that he hears word being passed around that they are soon to embark for French soil and Bernard, who crossed the sea with General Pershing, writes home that the soldier's life in France is enjoyable. He says he is well, but gets lonesome at times. He asks his mother to send him newspapers and magazines.
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Kentucky Post, Thursday, 11 April 1918, page 1
Bernard Osterhage, 17, brother of John, is in France. The boy's mother says her other three sons are very anxious to enlist in the service of Uncle Sam. All three of them, however, are under 17 years of age.
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Kentucky Post, Monday, 15 July 1918, page 1
Bernard Osterhage, 17 year old Dayton Marine, who was gassed by the Huns on the western front in France recently, will return to the United States to recuperate, his parents, who live at Third and Boone streets, Dayton, learned Monday. This information was contained in a telegram to the marine's mother from the government. She believes her son was seriously wounded.
Osterhage enlisted more than a year ago. He was in France before he reached his seventeenth birthday. He was the youngest boy from this section to get into the Marines.