Raymond Anthony Berger
 

Kentucky Post, Saturday, 28 July 1917, page 1


Raymond "Dick" Berger, 26, of 912 Boone st. Newport, left Saturday for training at Ft Royal SC as a member of the US Marine Corps. Berger was employed by the Joseph Noterman Co of Cincinnati. Fellow employees presented him with a wrist watch and a silver cigarette case.

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Kentucky Post, Friday, 28 December 1917, page 1

Raymond Berger, 908 Boone st. Newport, who has been in training for service in France with the Second Company Overseas Battalion, Marine Corps, at Paris Island, SC, is home on a Christmas furlough. He will leave Sunday for the training camp and the next time his many friends see him, he will, no doubt tell them of his adventures in France.

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Kentucky Post, Wednesday, 22 May 1918, page 2

Raymond Berger, 10th and Hamlet streets, Newport, who was gassed in action in France April 13, has sufficiently recovered and will again be able to return to the firing line, according to a letter received by his mother, Mrs. Anna Berger, of Newport. He is with the US Marines. Mrs. Berger was notified several weeks ago that he had been severely wounded in action. his letter was dated May 6.

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Kentucky Post, Wednesday, 14 May 1919, page 3

Word has been received that Raymond Berger, 910 Boone st. a Marine, has landed at Quantico Va. on his way home after several months overseas.

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Kentucky Post, Thursday, 2 June 1921, page 1

Four automobile bandits attempted to hold up the saloon of Raymond Berger, Tenth and Boone streets, Newport, at midnight Wednesday. Had Berger, a wounded marine, now in the Cincinnati General Hospital, been at the saloon when the bandits arrived this might have been a different story, for his friends describe him as a fighting fool.

 

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