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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
The markers in this memorial area honor veterans whose remains
have not been recovered or identified, were buried at sea, donated to science, or cremated and the ashes scattered.

Donated by    Chapter #110
Military Order of  the Purple Heart.

 

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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