Captain Charles Arthur Lindbery died of pneumonia and complications of spinal meningitis at Camp Lee, Virginia, on 27 May 1918. Just a few days prior to his death he had broken his left wrist while helping his men pull a truck out of a mud hole saving the life of one of his men. The injury prevented him from going overseas with his unit. Charles was an 1896 graduate of Whatcom High School and received a liberal arts degree from the University of Washington in 1901. While at the UW, Charles served as Captain of Company \u201cA\u201d of the University Cadets and was a member of the Mandolin and Guitar Club. A former commander of Company M, 2nd Washington Infantry, Charles served as a captain with the 601st Engineers where he was responsible for 900 men. A promotion to Major was pending at the time of his death. <\/p>\n
At the time of his enlistment, Charles was serving as the County Engineer for Whatcom County and he was active in the Washington State Association of County Engineers. His parents Albert Lindbery and Ida Sohyberg were both Swedish immigrants living in Albany, New York, when Charles was born. In 1909 Charles was united in marriage with Ada Lenora Wilson. Tragedy struck the young couple in 1914 when Ada and their infant son, Charles Jr., both died shortly after his birth. In 1916 Charles married secondly Charlotte Louise Larson who survived him. Charles\u2019 body was returned to Washington and he was laid to rest at the Wright Crematory and Columbarium in Seattle. (bit.ly\/uw_lindbery<\/a>)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":207,"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false},"memorial-war":[7],"class_list":["post-206","memorial-profile","type-memorial-profile","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","memorial-war-world-war-i"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/vetlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/memorial-profile\/206","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/vetlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/memorial-profile"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/vetlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/memorial-profile"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/vetlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/207"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/vetlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=206"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"memorial-war","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/depts.washington.edu\/vetlife\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/memorial-war?post=206"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}