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Year of Birth 1862
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Brewster, Andre, MG.
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Brewster died on March 27, 1942 and is buried in Arlington National Cemetery Arlington, Virginia . His grave is located in section 2, lot 1130.
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Andre W. Brewster was born on December 9, 1862 in Hoboken, New Jersey , during the American Civil War . He was commissioned in the Army in 1885 and served in "frontier duty" and the Spanish-American War .
For his actions during the Boxer Rebellion on July 13, 1900 in Tientsin, China , while a Captain with the 9th U.S Infantry , he was awarded the Medal of Honor on September 15, 1903.
During World War I , from June 1917 to September 1919, he served in France as Inspector General of General Headquarters, American Expeditionary Force (AEF).
Brewster's last command was the I Corps area in Boston, Massachusetts . He retired in 1925 with the rank of major general .
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Infantry
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9th Infantry
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Last Updated: Mar 26, 2020