WASPOKAN-L Archives

From:
Subject: [WASPOKANE] Karl Gunnar Rydstedt -AEF in WWI, died 1925??
Date: 3 Nov 2003 22:45:34 -0700

This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list.

Surnames: Rydstedt
Classification: Query

Message Board URL:

http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/3BC.2ACE/2174

Message Board Post:

Looking for any information about my great uncle, Karl Gunnar Rydstedt, who left Sweden approx 1916 to avoid their draft, but ironically wound up drafted into the American Expeditionary Force (I assume).
I assume he lived near my Grandfather, his older brother, (Anders) Henning Bergquist and (wife) Selma (Wickstrom) Bergquist in the Millwood area near Spokane after the war.

He died a young man, prior to my father or aunt knowing him, from the effects of the Great War (gas?) and may have been buried in the Spokane area. I hope to trace his military service records. Gunnar brought back Carl Zeiss military officer's binoculars from the Front (story goes, "off a dead German Officer") which was passed down through generations.

This thread:

• [WASPOKANE] Karl Gunnar Rydstedt -AEF in WWI, died 1925?? by