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On the eleventh hour of the eleventh day, of the 11th month in 1918. Fighting officially concluded in what was, to that point, the deadliest man-made disaster in human history. We're talking about World War I. France lay in ruins. Millions of wives had become widows.
And nearly 1% of the world's population. Lay dead. But who is the last one to fall? Here is Craig Dumay, a family. of the Grateful Nation project.
With the story of Henry Gunther. Take it away, Craig. Um Henry Gunther's grandparents emigrated from Germany in the mid-1800s, starting new lives in Baltimore, Maryland. Henry was born on June 6, 1895. As World War I raged in Europe from 1914 to 1918, many Americans of German heritage came under suspicion about their loyalty to the United States.
In Gunther's largely German-American East Baltimore neighborhood, it would be dangerous to voice opposition to the war in Europe. In May of 1917, Congress passed the Selective Service Act. Authorizing the federal government to temporarily expand the military through conscription. We now call it the draft. The law stated that all male citizens or male persons not alien enemies who have declared their intention to become citizens between the ages of 21 and 30 are required to register for military service.
Twenty four million men registered for the draft. Of the total number of U.S. troops sent to Europe in World War I, 2.8 million had been drafted compared to 2 million who volunteered. When Henry Gunther was drafted into service in September 1917, he was working as a clerk and a bookkeeper and was engaged to be married. While he was less than eager to leave for the battle trenches of Europe, Henry shipped out with the 313th Infantry Regiment in July of 1918.
By that time, the war was clearly entering its final act. Most knew that America's participation would bring a decisive end to the conflict. Much to his relief, the Army put Private Gunther's organizational and accounting skills to use, with an assignment as the Supply Sergeant for Company A of the Three Hundred Thirteenth Infantry Regiment. He performed his duties well, and was promoted to the rank of sergeant. Everything changed for Sergeant Gunther when he wrote a letter home to a friend describing the horrors of the trenches and advising him to avoid front line service if possible.
The letter was intercepted by an Army postal sensor and forwarded to Gunther's commanding officer. The government was on high alert for any signs of disloyalty from its large population of German-American citizens. making it a crime for any citizen to pass information that would hinder U.S. Armed Forces' prosecution of the war. or for any person to promote the success of America's enemies.
In a message to Congress, President Woodrow Wilson warned that the war would require a redefinition of national loyalty because of, quote, millions of men and women of German birth and native sympathy who live amongst us. He openly stated, quote, If there should be disloyalty, it will be dealt with a firm hand of repression. Sergeant Henry Gunther was busted all the way down to private, removed from his logistics and supply duties, and sent to the front lines as a rifleman. His demotion came just as the 313th Regiment began two months of continuous combat. Just after 5 a.m.
on November 11, 1918, British, French and German negotiators signed an armistice to end the war. Under the agreement all hostilities would cease. at precisely 11 a.m. on that day. The six-hour difference was intended to allow time for the news of the war's end to reach remote battlefields.
Word of the war's end reached the 313th Regiment when a runner arrived at 10.44 a.m. Gunther's Brigade Commander, Brigadier General William Nicholson, told his troops that there would be absolutely no let-up. until precisely 11am. Another American drafted into military service was a young journalist, James M. Kaine.
who would later achieve fame as the famous author of The Postman Always Rings Twice and wrote an account of Private Gunther's actions in the final moments of The War to End All Wars. According to his companions, Gunther brooded a great deal over his reduction in rank, and became obsessed with a determination to make good before his officers and fellow soldiers. particularly he was worried because he thought himself suspected of being a German sympathizer. He acquitted himself splendidly in the Montfoucon fight, and on the drive east of the Meuse he was selected to act as a company runner. particularly dangerous work, for a runner is the bearer of important messages and must get them delivered, even if his way lies over the most exposed country.
On November 11, he was still on duty as a runner. His company had been ordered to advance on the Villa de Vaum-Chemont. Gunther, with one or two other runners and an advanced party of riflemen from his company, was just on the outskirts. The order had already come that hostilities were to cease at eleven o'clock. Directly ahead there was visible a German machine gun nest.
Yeah. Gunther, according to the men of Company A, must have been fired by a desire to demonstrate, even at the last minute, that he was courageous and all American. At a few minutes to 11, he announced that he was going to take that machine gun nest. And though his companions remonstrated and told him that in a few minutes the war would be over, he started out, armed with a Browning automatic rifle. When the Germans saw him coming, they waved at him and called out, in such broken English as they could, to him.
go back that the war was over. He paid no heed to them, however, and kept on firing a shot or two from his automatic as he went. After several vain efforts to make him turn back, the Germans turned their machine gun on him, and at one minute of 11 o'clock Gunther fell dead. The guns stopped firing at eleven o'clock, a few seconds after. And a few minutes after the German machine gun crew that had killed him came out with a stretcher and placed Gunther on it.
They then carried him back to his party from Company A, He had left but a short time before. They explained that they had tried to keep him from coming on, and that they had to shoot him in self-defense. They insisted on shaking hands with the Americans, after which they set Gunther down, and returned to their own lines. At 10.59 a.m. on November 11, Private Henry Gunther was killed one minute before guns went silent on the Western Front.
He may have been proving his loyalty by following General Nicholson's no let up order to the letter. He may have sought to erase all doubts and prove his allegiance to the American side. He may have suffered a mental breakdown from all that he'd seen during the two months of intense trench warfare. Or perhaps word hadn't actually reached him that the war was over. If his motivation was to restore his reputation, The fatal tactic worked.
In his Order of the Day, General John Pershing, responsible for all American Expeditionary Forces, officially recognized Henry N. Gunther. as the last man killed in World War One. The army posthumously restored Gunther to the rank of sergeant. and awarded him the Distinguished Service Cross.
And a terrific job on the production, editing, and storytelling by our own Monty Montgomery. And a special thanks to Craig Dumae of the Grateful Nation Project. for telling this story. In America's history, we don't gloss it over. We've done segments on the good and bad parts of our past.
And during the war, World War I, it was the Germans. many of whom are mistreated. And in World War II, it was the Japanese. We're a good country. But we're not a perfect country.
and Henry Gunther.
Well, he died proving. to the people he knew and didn't know. that he was a loyal member of the country. The story of Henry Gunther, the last man killed. in World War One.
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