You are looking for one of the tombstone of OTTO HAGEN, a private in the First Gas Regiment during the Great War.
Birth: May A. B C D E
To find the final for this multi:
N 44 4C. D (C-B) E
W 94 03. E A (D-A)
I had never heard of the Gas Regiment, so I did some research:
Washington, October 26. "Only keen, red-blooded
men who are desirous of seeing active service are
wanted for this regiment" — so announces Major
E. J. Atkisson, Corps of Engineers, upon whom has
been placed the duty of organizing the "Hell Fire"
regiment with which to fight the Germans.
The "Hell Fire Battalion" offers a real chance for
men to perform active service on the battle front.
They will go to France earlier than men in many other
commands and they will be at the head of the great
offensive which supposedly will open in the spring.
They often will be the vanguard of the attacking forces,
supported by the whole power of the great military
organization behind them, with its thousands of can-
non, and its hundreds of thousands of rifles. The faith
expressed by Army officers of the ability of the United
States to teach the Germans the war game in the use
of their own hellish weapons is based not so much
upon the possible superiority of American over Ger-
man chemists as on the inventiveness of the American
mind in the designing of apparatus for the projection
of gases and of flames, and, above all, upon the in-
exhaustible resources of the United States which will
enable the American troops to make use of an equip-
ment immeasurably better than the Germans can
command.
From
THE STORY OF THE FIRST GAS REGIMENT BY JAMES THAYER ADDISON, REGIMENTAL CHAPLAIN
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
BOSTON AND NEW YORK
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN COMPANY, Cambridge
1919