Grave of Private Frank Braun
Private Frank Braun, Company M, 7th Cavalry Regiment died on October 4, 1876 at Fort Abraham Lincoln of his wounds suffered at the Little Bighorn. He is buried at the Custer National Cemetery next to the battlefield in Section A, Grave 571. Braun hailed from Berne, Switzerland, where he was born in 1848. A laborer, he enlisted in the army on September 23, 1875 in Louisville, Kentucky and joined Company M on October 21, 1875. Private Braun was 5’6¼” tall, with hazel eyes, fair hair and a fair complexion. (Custer’s Best: The Story of Company M, 7th Cavalry at the Little Bighorn)
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Walther von Brauchitsch
Walther von Brauchitsch, Army Field Marshal, born October 4, 1881 in Berlin, winner of the Iron Cross 1st Class in World War I, Commander-in-Chief of the Army, retired in December 1941, winner of the Knight’s Cross of the Iron Cross, died October 18, 1948 of heart failure in Hamburg while a British prisoner of war, said of himself: “I am a soldier. It is my duty to obey.” Von Brauchitsch is buried at Salzgitter-Hohenrode. (2,000 Quotes From Hitler’s 1,000-Year Reich)