The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1930-01-23
Stearns County Contributed
LARGE Quota to World War

ImenCS: ST. Mlnlel. dIueI, I1cuiy
Spoden, Cold Spring, Route 1.
Stalboerger, George H., Lake
Henry. Army. Killed in action.
Engagements: st. Mihiel. Mother.
Mrs. Maggie Stalbeorger, Belgrade,
Route 2.
Steffen, John o., st. Cloud. Army.
Died of wounds received in action.
ENGAGEMENTS: Verdun Front.
Mother, Mrs. Ellen Steffen.
Steinbauer, William j., st. Cloud.
Army. Died at camp. Father,
Michael Steinbaur.
Stone, Gilbert, st. Cloud. Army
Died in service. Sister, Mrs. ]. H
Atkins, Waite Park Route 3.
Sunflot, Martin, Brooten. Army.
Killed in action. Sister, Miss An
mic Sunf1ot.
Swift, Robert j., Sank Centre.
Army. Died of wounds. Mother,
Mrs. Anna Swift.
Tenny Earl Rockville. Army.
Died at camp. Father, Homer
Tenny.
Thiesen, Leo j., Cold Spring.
Army Died at camp. Father, Mike
Thiessen.
Tollefson, Albert j., Belgrade,
Route f. Army. Died at camp.
Mother, Mrs. Dora Tollefson.
Torberg, Nicholaus, Richmond.
Army. Died overseas. Father,
August Torborg.
Volz, Herman, Melrose. Army.
Killed in action. Mother, Mrs.
Anna Volz, Kilbourne, Wis.
Voss, John p, Albany. Army.
Died of wounds received in action.
Engagements: Champagne. Father,
Peter j. Voss.
Waibel, Bernard j., st. Cloud.
Army. Killed in action. Engage
ments: St. Mihiel. Father, Barney
Waibel.
Week, Alfred, Brooten. Army.
Killed in action. Engagements:
Gressaire Woods. Father, John j.
Week.
WEIGH, Albert c., Westport. Ar
my. Died overseas. Mother, Mrs.
Mary WEIGH.
Westerberg, Irwin A., st. Cloud.
Army. Died of wounds. Engage
ments: st. Mihiel, Argonne. Faith
err, Peter Westerberg. Buried in
France.
Woebkenberg, Fred, st. Cloud.
Army Killed in action. Brother
in-law, Henry Denne.
Zapf, Frank X, st. Cloud. Army.
Died overseas. Father, Chas. Zapf.
Among Stearns county soldiers
who died in the service, who are
credited elsewhere, but whose FAM
lilies belong here, are:
Bennett, Alonzo Army. North
Dakota (Paynesville) Died in SER
vice.
Justin, Joseph w., st. Paul. Ar
my. Killed in action. Engage
ments: Res. St. Mihiel, Argonne.
Father, John Justin, st. Joseph,
Route 1.
Spiering, Clemens, Crookston.
Army. Died of wounds received in
action. Father. Richard Spiering
st. Cloud. Buried in France.
Weitzel, Louis, Minneapolis. Ar
my. Died in service. Died over
seas. Father, Joseph Weitzel, Mel
rose.
Wilcox, Cass j., Minneapolis.
Army. Died in service. Father, c.
D. Wilcox, Sank Centre.
Wolbeck, Frank, st. Clair, MINI.
The following names are to be
added to the Stearns county gold
star list:
Pvt. Paul v. Donart, Sank Gen.
ire. Army. Killed in action.
Mother, Mrs. Rose Donart.
Pvt Joseph Knaus, Cold Spring.
Army. Died in service overseas.
Father, Nicholas Knaus.
Hshr. Frank J. Laubach, Mel
rose, r 8. Army. Died in service.
Mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Laubach'
Belbrade, Route 2.
Pvt. Victor J. Mcconnell, St.
Cloud. Died of wounds received in
action. Father, Oscar A. McCon-
nell.
| Pvt. George L. Rice, Sank Gen.
ire. Army. Died in service. Faith
er, James M. Rice.
Corp. Jacob J. STATE, Richmond,
Route 1. Army. Died of wounds.
Father, Arnold P. STATE.
! Vol. of Minnesota in the War
With Germany" published in 1928
by the Minnesota Historical Socie-
! ty, gives the following figures for
the states war dead. U. S. Army,
3.343; u. S. Navy AS; Marine
Corps, 119; total, 1907.
Of these Sc belonged to Stearns
county, as follows: U. S. Army Gin
Guiding one war nurse), SO; U. S.
Navy, 2; U. S. Marine Corps, 1.
One Stearns county man serv-
ing with other allied armies is list
ed as killed in action: Pvt. VIM.
Mack English Sank Centre, served
with the 18th Battalion, Canadian
Infantry. Overseas engagements:
Battles of Passchendaels, Cambria.
Father, w. S. English, Wetaskiwin,
Alberta, Can.
List of Wounded.
In his book "The Fourth Divis-
lion in the World War" which he
wrote in collaboration with Henry
Noble Hall, war correspondent of
the London Times, accredited to
the American army, Colonel Chris
tan A. Bach relates an incident
somewhat as follows: During an
engagement an officer noticed a
Igroup of men making their way
toward him. When they arrived
within speaking distance the SER
geant in charge saluted and said