HANKE, JAMES E. F.
Newell

Born April 4, 1890.  Enl. June 26, 1918.  Pvt. Co. E, No. 1 Development Bn. Inf.  Trained: Camp Dodge.  Sent to hospital at Camp Dodge November 11 with influenza.  Died November 13 of pneumonia.

 

HAROLDSEN, CARL A.
Rembrandt

Born July 12, 1892.  Enl. May 25, 1917.  Pvt. 1st el. Co. B, 5th Engrs.  Trained:  Ft. Logan; at El Paso; at Corpus Christi; to Camp Merritt.  Sailed for France July 31; landed Brest August 12.  To Pone-en-Nessen Barracks for five days; to Aisy-Amoncon-Yonne six weeks; to Chaligney; to front lines; to St. Mihiel sector September 26; to Minorville two weeks; to front at Puvenille Woods October 9 to November 10; to Thiaucourt until killed.  Killed while removing German mines November 20, 1918.  Buried at Thiaucourt, France.
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1 Grave in France

 

HARTMAN, EDWARD E.
Marathon

Born November 1, 1887.  Enl. May 24. 1918.  Pvt. Co. H, 352d Inf. 88th Div.  Trained:  Camp Dodge from May 24 to Aug 25.  Sailed from Camp Mills September 2, 1918.  Was in hospital five days and died with pneumonia October 15, 1918.  Buried in France.

 

HINTZ, CHARLES A.
Washington Township

Born July 22, 1890.  Enl. July 24, 1918.  Pvt. Co. E, 316th Regt. 79th Div.  Trained:  Camp Gordon; to Camp Merritt. Sailed from New York August 30 on U. S. S. Plattsburg; landed Brest September 12.  To St. George; to Montherand, where he joined company specified above on the Verdun front, going into action October 26; participated in the capture of Hill 378, going over the top November 4; wounded in the arms by machine-gun bullets; sent to Base Hosp. No. 83, where he died December 4, 1918.  Buried at Revigny, France.  His commanding officer wrote of him:  “He was every inch an American and acquitted himself fearlessly in what became his first and last battle.”

 

HUMPHREY, JOHN L.
Storm Lake

Born October 1, 1895.  Enl. July 27, 1917.  Corp. Co. E, 16th Inf. 1st Div.  Trained:  Co. P. Montana N. G. at Glendive, Montana:  to Helena to train; to Butte to guard the I. W. W. August 3 to October, 1917; entrained for Camp Mills, there six weeks training selective service men; to Camp Merritt.  Sailed from New York December 15; landed Liverpool.  To Winchester; to Southampton; to Le Havre.  Transferred to Co. E, 16th Inf 1st Div.:  to front; gassed twice and wounded once; returned to front.  Killed in action July 18, 1918.  Given posthumous decoration of Croix de Guerre by Marshal Foch, announced November, 1919; citation:  "He gave evidence of the greatest bravery in all of the conflict and showed the finest loyalty to his comrades."

¹Eilers, Tom D.  Buena Vista's Part in the World War.  Storm Lake, 1920, pp. 18-21.