Fort Custer National Cemetery
15501 Dickman Road, Augusta, MI 49012
Phone: (269)
731- 4164
Website:
http://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/ftcuster.asp
Extracted from the Department of Veterans
Affairs, National Cemetery
Administration database dated 15 June 2006 by Joy
Fisher
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Sections MA and MA2 In Memory
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The Forgotten Twenty Six German Memorial “From 1943 to 1946, Fort Custer housed several German Prisoner of War Camps.Many of the 4,000 prisoners worked on farms and in vineyards in the area. In Sections B of Fort Custer National Cemetery, Once part of the Post Cemetery of fort Custer, there are 26 Berman graves. Sixteen of the men were killed or died as a result of an accident on October 31, 1845 when a truck, returning German prisoners of War from a work detail to their POW Camp at Fort Custer, collided with a train at an unguarded railroad crossing at Blissfield, Michigan. The other 10 died of natural causes while prisoners of war at Fort Custer.” In 1953,the 26 German POW graves were included in the annual memorial service to honor those who died in defense of their county. Currently an annual memorial service is held on the third Sunday in November, which coincides with Germany's "Volkstrauertag" or "Day of National Mourning."
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