Russell Julius Mouser, U.S. Army, World War 1

Russell Julius Mouser, military portrait, U.S. Army World War 1

Russell Mouser was born in 1893 in the Cane Creek community of Bollinger County to Troy Washington and Mary Elizabeth Eaker Mouser. After completing teacher certification at Southeast Missouri State Teachers College he taught from 1915 until his enlistment in the army in November, 1917. He completed basic training at Fort Riley, Kansas, and was assigned as a cook to Base Hospital No. 82 which was organized there on February 18, 1918. This hospital organization, whose members were recruited from all over the United States, arrived in France in September 8, 1918 and received their first patient on September 29. The hospital facility where he served had 1800 beds. The largest daily admission in a single day was 1099. He served overseas from Sept. 9, 1918 to May 28, 1919.