Brice Ringer, age 22, from Augusta, Indiana, Pike county.
Parents: William F. and Addeline Ringer
Service era: World War I
Parents: William F. and Addeline Ringer
Date of death: Sunday, June 22, 1919
Death details: Committed suicide in Berlin, Germany. Despondency caused by homesickness was given as the probably reason. His letters to relatives expressed a desire to return home. He was a member of the Red Cross mission in Germany and went overseas as a member of a medical detachment in 1918.
Cemetery: Buried in Augusta, Indiana
Source: Indiana Historical Commission, Princeton Daily Clarion (1919)
My grandmother, his twin swore he would never kill himself. She had just received a letter the month before that was not despondant or sad and they were very close. She has everything regarding his death and wanted so badly to prove that he was murdered.
He carried a large amount of money he planned to send home to her that day, that was not found. it was never investigated properly and the man watching his casket had to abandon it because of the violence at the train station. It was a dangerous time to be an American in Germany.