George E. Trebing

PRIVATE GEORGE E. TREBING was the son of Carl E. and Wilhelmina Trebing. He lived at 508 North 5^th Street in Camden NJ, where his father was self-employed as a shoemaker, with a shop at 430 Main Street in the same North Camden neighborhood in which he lived. Carl Trebing had been born in Germany, and was working as a shoe and boot-maker in Camden as early as 1887, and had opened his shop at 430 Main Street in business for himself by 1888. The family was living on the 400 block of Main Street when George was born.

George Trebing was drafted on February 25, 1918, at the age of 29. After training at Camp Dix NJ, he was assigned to Company D, 309^th Infantry Regiment. He died of wounds on October 19, 1918, in a partially wrecked church at Grand Pre, France that was being used as a hospital. He was charging with his squad when German machine gun fire wounded him in the side. A comrade carried him back to the old church, where he died.

George Trebing was survived by his mother and father, and three brothers, Walter A., Carl Jr,, and Harold Trebing. Walter A. Trebing was also a veteran of World War I. The Trebing family was still at the North 5th Street address as late as April of 1930. Carl Trebing Jr. became a dentist, later moving to a home on Marlton Pike near Cornell Avenue in Delaware Township (present day Cherry Hill) NJ.