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Life at Camp Funston Reflections of Army Sergeant Charles L. Johnston Charles L. Johnston 1895-1940 Charles L. Johnston was my dad. He died when I was six months old. In a way, his death was an irony. He served during World War One as a member of Ambulance Company 239, 10th Sanitary Train, at Camp Funston (part of Ft. Riley) Kansas. He nursed soldiers during the influenza epidemic of 1918-1919, ...

The Spanish Influenza wiped out more than 25 million peole in just one year - an epidemic that started right here in the United States.