GEORGE BUN CULP was born in Wessington, South Dakota, December 3d, 1890. He moved with his parents to California when but four years old, and lived at Fillmore, Ventura County, in that State until about a year and a half before the war broke out. Then he moved to Nevada to take the post of Chief Engineer for the Techatticup Mine at Eldorado Canyon. On October 2d, 1917, he entered the Service from kelson, Clark County, and entrained for Camp Lewis, Washington, from Las Vegas.

According to his service record, he served in the 32d Battalion, 166th Depot Brigade, from October 15th to October 25th; then in Company M, 362d Infantry, until July 4th, 1918. His overseas service dated from July 18th, 1918, when he left the States, probably with some replacement unit. Later he was transferred to Company K, 1 09th Infantry, 28th Division, but the date of this transfer is not known.

It is doubtful if Private Culp joined the 28th Division in time for their stubborn fighting between the Vesle and Aisne Rivers (August 6-September 7), but he was certainly in line when the division went into the Meuse-Argonne Offensive on September 26th. Sometime between that date and the 1st of October, while the 28th was battling its way up the valley of the Aire and long the slopes of the Argonne, he received a mortal wound in action which led to his death on the 1 st of October, 1918. At that time the 28th was engaged in the Bois d’Apremont, a part of the Argonne Forest. Those who remain to mourn the loss of this true American son are his parents, James Albert and Elizabeth W . Culp ; his brothers and sisters, Sybel, Leiia, Frank, Ethyl, Helen, and James Albert Culp, Jr., all of Fillmore, R. R. ‘ , Ventura County, California.