(G.S) Michigan Pvt 126 Inf 32 Div
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All of the ancestry records show his birth date as Dec 31 1895 (christening)and census. His draft registry written by him says Dec 31st. 1896. (Thanks to Joyce #48195617 for this information.)
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1900 US Federal Census:
Name: George Bauer
Age: 4
Birth Date: Dec 1895
Birthplace: Iowa
Home in 1900: Jackson, Lee, Iowa
Ward of City: 2d
Street: Exchange Street
House Number: 114
Sheet Number: 8
Number of Dwelling in Order of Visitation: 195
Family Number: 203
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Son
Marital status: Single
Father's name: George Bauer
Father's Birthplace: Germany
Mother's name: Mary Bauer
Mother's Birthplace: Germany
Household Members:
George Bauer 35
Mary Bauer 30
Louise Bauer 9
Ida Bauer 6
George Bauer 4
Elfa Bauer 1/12
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1910 US Federal Census:
Name: George Bauer Jr.
[George Baner Jr.]
Age in 1910: 14
Birth Year: abt 1896
Birthplace: Iowa
Home in 1910: Keokuk Ward 6, Lee, Iowa
Street: South St
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Son
Marital status: Single
Father's name: George M Baner
Father's Birthplace: Germany
Mother's name: Marie Louise Bauer
Mother's Birthplace: Germany
Native Tongue: English
Attended School: Yes
Able to Read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes
Household Members:
George M Baner 46
Marie Louise Bauer 40
Louise M Bauer 19
Edith M Bauer 16
George Bauer Jr. 14
Elsie M Bauer 9
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Name: George Bauer
Race: Caucasian (White)
Marital status: Single
Birth Date: 31 Dec 1896
Birth Place: Iowa, USA
Street address: 217 12th
Residence Place: Detroit, Wayne, Michigan
Occupation: Clerk, Western Express Company, Detroit
Tall, Slender, Grey eyes, Lt brown hair, not bald.
Signed card on Jun 5, 1917
(WWI Draft Registration Card)
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Death Day: 28. Aug. 1918
Death Location: France
Rank: Private
Branch: US Army
Regiment: 126th Infantry
Division: 32nd
Company: H
Casualty: KIA
Contributor: Cheryl Locher Moonen (47601076)
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George Bauer
Killed in action, August 28, 1918 in France. Born in Keokuk. Enlisted at Detroit, Michigan. Member Co. H., 126th infantry. Son of Mr. and Mrs. George Bauer, 100 South Twnety-first street. Member of St. Paul's church. (The Daily Gate City and Constitution-Democrat, Keokuk, Ia., Jan 8, 1919, Page 6.)
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GEO.. BAUER DIED IN ACTION
Soldier Well Know n Keokuk, Where He Was Born and Reared and Worked for Insurance Company.
NEAR CHATEAU THEIRRY
Wrote Home Just Before His Death, Telling His Mother He Had Fought and Was Going Back; Not Worry.
Official information reached Mr. and Mrs. George M. Bauer, 100 South Twenty-first street, late yesterday afternoon, that their son, Private George Bauer, a member of Company H, 126th infantry, was killed in action in France August 28.
No particulars of the death were given in the official message.
The arrival of the telegram was the first word the family had received concerning the young soldier since the first week in September. Then three letters dated August 10, 14, and 16 came. The sad part of it is that at the time the parents received these letters Private Bauer was dead.
In one of these letters Private Bauer mentioned that he had taken part in the battle of Chateau Thierry, but was back of the line resting at the time the letter was written. He wrote that he must, however, soon go back to the front.
"If you don't hear from me, mother," he wrote, "in the next four or five weeks don't worry about me. I will not have time to write you."
The next word was the notice of his death.

Born and Reared in Keokuk.
George Bauer was born December 31 1895, in Keokuk, and lived here up to the time that he went to Detroit in 1916. He attended the grammar school and was a graduate of the Tri-state business college. After finishing a business college, he became an employee of the Iowa State Insurance company and worked there for several years.
He then went to Detroit, Michigan, and it was there that the first selection draft took him. He was stationed first at Camp Custer, Michigan, and later was transferred to Camp McArthur, Waco, Texas. Here he became connected with Company H, 126th Infantry, and crossed seas to fight with there same comrades of arms. He arrive in France last February and saw many months of active service.
Private Bauer was a member of the St. Paul's German Evangelical church.
Surviving are his parents and three sisters, Mrs. A. M. Vandndoel of Keokuk, Mrs. A. C. Doll of Peroria, and Miss Elisie Bauer, living at home.

Flags at Half Mast.
The parents hardly expect that the body will ever be brought to America, and certainly this will not be done now.
There were no other Keokuk men who were members of Private Bauer's company, according to the family. The relatives do not know who will be kind enough to write them from France to tell them more of his death.
Mayor Lofton has ordered all the municipal flags at half mast, and requests that all flags fying in Keokuk be half masted for three days, or until sunset Saturday, in honor of Private Bauer.
(The Daily Gate City and Constitution-Democrat, Keokuk, Ia., Oct 9, 1918, Page 6)
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MAYOR'S PROCLAMATION
All flags flying on municipal buildings will be placed at half mast for three days and until sunset of next Saturday, and all persons flying flags in Keokuk are requested to keep them at half mast until that hour, in memory of the death of Private George Bauer, killed in action in France. ED. S. LOFTON, Mayor. (The Daily Gate City and Constitution-Democrat, Keokuk, Ia., Oct 9, 1918, Page 3.)
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HOW ONE KEOKUK SOLDIER PASSED
He Was Fighting a Horde of Machine Guns In a Cut, When Americans Went Into, and Through Them
LETTER TO HIS MOTHER
Dr. William Rankin, Major in Medical Corps in France, Writes How He Died and Where He is Buried.
How a Keokuk soldier gave his life for his country and civilization while fighting the Huns is told in a letter from Major Rankin, former Keokuk physician to Mrs. George Bauer, mother of the dead hero, as follows:
"I was much surprised to learn there was a Keokuk man in the 32d division aside from myself.
"George Bauer was killed near Juvigny, France. This is north of Soissons.
"He is buried, according to our records, in the American cemetery by the big cave three kilometers from Juvigny.
"The attack as made on a railway cut, and our boys must come over the raise before running down the slope to the cut, which was filled with machine guns. They took the railway and city with 1,100 prisoners, but we paid pretty dear in our own precious boys. I did not see Bauer; did not know he was from Keokuk, or I would have known how and when he was buried.
"Please extend my sympathy to Mrs. Bauer -yet I feel sure she would not have had her boy do otherwise than come and take this chance with the rest of us for the greatest cause that was ever fought for since the Christians drove back the African hordes on this same battlefield. To lose one's life for such a cause as ours to win, is one of envy rather than sympathy."
(The Daily Gate City and Constitution-Democrat, Keokuk, Ia., Apr 5, 1919, Page 2.)
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Buried in proximity are:
George M. Bauer, buried on Apr 11, 1943.
George Bauer, buried on Jan 2, 1921 - Buried by Pearson, Vaugh & Holbrock
Mrs. Anabel Dunn, buried on Aug 20, 1943.
Louise Vandendoel, Jan 5, 1933.
(Keokuk Library Death Card File