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Martin H. Bluethner at age 43. This photograph, which was affixed to his “Declaration of Intention to Become a U.S. Citizen”, is the only picture of Martin Bluethner I was able to obtain. The application form was submitted on October 18, 1935. Martin was naturalized as a United States citizen on April 29, 1938, in Federal Court at Newark, NJ.

After completing cadet training, Private Bluethner shipped out for England, arriving there on November 1, 1915. While stationed with the Canadian forces at Bramshott, England, he was transferred to the 17th Reserve Battalion, CEF on March 15, 1916. On April 9, 1916, he was transferred to the 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles Battalion and embarked for France.

Throughout the 35 months that Martin Bluethner was a member of the 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles, the Battalion experienced some of the heaviest fight-ing of the War, in France and Belgium. The Somme, Flers-Courcelette, Ancre Heights, Vimy, Passchendaele, The Hin-denburg Line and Canal du Nord were just a few of the battles in which soldiers of the 5th CMR saw intensive action.