CPL Martin A. Kastning
1893 – 1976
USAR
WWI
Martin August Kastning was born January 31, 1893 in Chicago, to Friedrich and Caroline Kehe Kastning.
Kastning was employed as a bookkeeper when he enlisted for World War I on May 27, 1918. He served in Battery D, 117th Field Artillery in France, which participated in major operations like the Ypres-Lys and Sommes offensives. He was honorably discharged as a Corporal on January 17, 1919.
Kastning married Emma Schauble in 1927; they raised two children in Barrington.
He and his wife moved to Florida after he retired from a long career with Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company of Chicago.
Corporal Martin Kastning died September 21, 1976, in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida. He is buried with his wife in Barrington’s Evergreen Cemetery.
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Courtesy of Signal Hill Chapter, National Society Daughters of the American Revolution.