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SERGEANT ALLEN H. BOSSERT
was the son of William H. and Mary Bossert. He was born in Pennsylvania.
The Bossert family moved to 113 Chestnut
Avenue, Woodlynne NJ sometime after 1902. His father worked as an
inspector on one of the railroads.
Allen Bossert, known
locally as "Dewey" entered the service in August 1917, and was
assigned to Company K, 311th Infantry at Camp Dix. He was later assigned
to the 311th Machine Gun Company, and was overseas from May, 1918, until
October 3, 1918, when he was killed by shrapnel. At the time of his
death he was about to be sent to school to study for a lieutenancy.
Sergeant Bossert was the only Woodlynne boy to make the supreme
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