WW1 Envelope
Sent by Private Bennet D. Fuller - L Company, 329th Infantry Regiment
This is an empty, original censored WWI AEF envelope dated September 19, 1918 and is franked with stamp "Soldiers Mail". The envelope was sent by Private Bennet Fuller to his sweetheart Miss Ethna Fast in Akron, Ohio. The address the envelope was sent from is APO #762.
Private Bennet David Fuller
Private
Bennet David Fuller
Private Bennet David Fuller
Bennet D. Fuller was born on January 9, 1896, in Salisbury, Pennsylvania to Lewis Fuller and Sadie Curtis Fuller. Bennet D. Fuller (service number 3187788), enlisted in the Army on May 29, 1918 in Salisbury, Pennsylvania. After joining the military he received training at Camp Gordon, Georgia with the 1st replacement regiment, before going overseas as part of the Automatic Replacement regiment. In France he was first assigned to the 329th Infantry Regiment on August 14, 1918 for further training and preparation for combat. A month later, on September 26, he joined Company K, 6th Infantry Regiment, 5th Infantry Division as a private. He served with this unit in the Meuse-Argonne campaign and was severly wounded in the final few days of World War 1. Upon returning to the US on December 20, 1918 he was honorably discharged on February 1, 1919.
Upon his return to civilian life he married Ethna M. Fast on March 19, 1919. They had two sons during their marriage, Richard W. Fuller (1920-1929) and Merle L. Fuller (1922-1968). Bennet Fuller died on June 18, 1984, in Akron, Ohio, at the age of 88.
