Born 12 Dec 1895 in Baltimore, MD. Son of Joseph and Regina (Gundelag) Amrheim. Name is spelled variously as Amrheim and Amrhein. Cemetery marker spelled as Amrheim.
With the Consolidated Gas, Electric Light and Power Company of Baltimore at the outset of WWI.
Attached as a gunner with the 14th Machine Gun Battalion, 5th Division, known as the “Red Diamond,” of the American Expeditionary Forces on the Western Front.
Killed in Action, 12 Oct 1918 during intense fighting in and around Bois des Rappes, near Brieulles-sur-Meuse and Bantheville in the Meuse department in the Grand Est region of northeastern France.
The Meuse-Argonne Offensive, begun on 26 Nov 1918, was the largest operation of the American Expeditionary Forces during the war and the final Allied offensive leading to the wars end on 11 Nov 1918.
PFC William Amrheim is interred in the Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Plot H, Row 24, Grave 24 in Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Departement de la Meuse, Lorraine, France.
