Paap, Hugo Walter
Private

Hugo Walter Paap from Chicago, Illinois, Cook county.

Service era: Early 1900s
Military history: Coast Artillery Corps at Fort Barrancas near Pensacola, Florida

Date of death: Wednesday, July 19, 1922
Death details: Fatally wounded when the recoil piston rod of a 3-inch gun broke and caused the breech to be thrown back, striking him in the stomach.

Source: New York Herald (1922)