Henry Gunther
Henry Nicholas John Gunther was an American soldier and the last soldier of any of the belligerents to be killed during World War I. He was killed at 1059 a.m., one minute before the Armistice was to take effect ata.m.
Henry Gunther was born into a GermanAmerican family in east Baltimore, Maryland, on June 6, 1895. His parents, George Gunther and Lina Roth, were both children of German immigrants. He grew up in Highlandtown, an East Baltimore neighborhood heavily influenced by German immigrants, where his family belonged to Sacred Heart of Jesus Roman Catholic parish. Henry Gunther worked as a bookkeeper and clerk at the National Bank of Baltimore. He had joined the Roman Catholic service order for laymen, the Knights of Columbus in 1915.
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