Last Updated on July 25, 2024 by Dennis
A comprehensive roster of casualties from Ashland County, Wisconsin, detailing the hometown, age, unit, location of death, and cause of death for soldiers, sailors, marines, and nurses who sacrificed their lives during World War I.
See abbreviations on main Wisconsin’s Gold Star List page.
Army
Benware, Peter W., 24, m, Cadott ; pvt 4prvnlbn engnrs ; U. S.; dd (pneu) Oct 11, ’18.
Bowe, Paul, 27, Chippewa Falls; pvt mgco 354inf; near Verdun; kia Nov 2, ’18.
Brown, Richard, 20, Stanley; pvt 1cl 102inf; Toul sec, Chateau Thierry, St. Mihiel, Verdun; w Jy 18; kia Oct 26,’18.
Bruehling, Paul J., 30, m, Chippewa Falls; pvt 4tngbnrplgr, Camp Greenleaf ; U. S.; dd (pneu) Oct 11, ’18.
Bushland, Orlando, 27, Chippewa Falls; pvt 161depbrig; U. S.; dd (pneu) Oct 7, ’18.
Caulkins, Clifford, 19, New Auburn; pvt 1cl 127inf; Argonne; kia Oct 16, ’18.
Christopherson, Emil, 23, Stanley; pvt 343inf; overseas; dd (pneu) Sept 28, ’18.
Close, Arthur Clayton, 25, Chippewa Falls; pvt 1cl 28inf; kia Jy 18, ’18.
Coddington, Claud C., 28, Bloomer; pvt 315fremsq QMC; overseas; dd (pneu) Oct 4, ’18.
Coon, Claude Curtis, 23, New Auburn; pvt, Camp Grant, Ill.; U. S.; dd (pneu) Nov 6, ’18.
Erickson, Arthur M., 25, Chippewa Falls; pvt 341inf; overseas; dd (pneu) Oct 14,’18.
Fasbender, Henry, 26, Chippewa Falls; pvt 331fa; overseas; dd (pneu) Oct 5,’18.
Felsner, Albert Carl, 25, Cadott; pvt 161depbrig; U. S.; dd (pneu) Oct 5, ’18.
Felton, Charles Brush, 30, New Auburn; pvt 1cl 107suptn; overseas; dd (pneu) Oct 16,’18.
Fitzl, Lawrence Raymond, 21, Stanley; pvt 127inf ; St. Gilles, Juvigny, Marne Woods, Romagne, Braheville, St. Laurent; kia Nov 10, ’18.
Goddard, Louis David, 19, Stanley; sgt 119mgbn; Alsace, Juvigny, Terny-Sorny, Romagne, Vittarville; dd (influ) Dee 16, ’18.
Gomulka, Andrew, 24, Cornell; pvt 161depbrig; U. S.; dd (pneu) Oct 11, ’18.
Gruber, Michael Matthew, 18, Stanley; pvt SATC UW; U. S.; dd. (pneu) Oct 18, ’18.
Hagen, Edward, 31, Cadott; pvt 341inf; overseas; dd (pnev) Oct 17, ’18.
Hagen, Norman, 26, Chippewa Falls; bandco 107MP; dd (pneu) Oct 19, ’18.
Hale, Everett H., 27, Chippewa Falls; 2Lt 60inf ; Meuse-Argonne ; kia Oct 14, ’18.
Harvey, Arthur Nelson, 19, Chippewa Falls; pvt 107suptn; kia (sinking of Tuscania) Feb 5,’18.
Heidtke, Oscar A.; 23, Chippewa Falls; pvt MD Camp Greenleaf rplunit57; dd (pneu) Oct 10,’18.
Heighton, Patrick, 30, Stanley; pvt supco 343inf; overseas; dd. (empyema) Oct 20,’18.
Hoveland, Thorfin H., 26, Sand Creek; pvt 11inf; kia Oct 17, ’18.
Jacobson, Harley, 23, Cadott; pvt 1cl 353inf; Argonne; dw Nov 9, ’18.
Johnson, Nels C., 30, Stanley; pvt 309mgbn; Meuse-Argonne; kia, Nov 1, ’18.
Kelean, George L., 19, Chippewa Falls; WNG; corp 127inf; Badricourt, Chateau Thierry, Fismes: kia Aug 1,’18.
Lafrania, Kenelm, 24, Chippewa Falls; corp 127inf ; Chateau Thierry, near Sergy; kia Jy 31,’18.
Lamphere, Glenn, 19, Stanley; corp 119mgbn; Alsace, 2Marne, Juvigny, Argonne Forest; kia Oct 16, ’18.
Lekvin, Owen A., 30, Chippewa Falls; pvt 107engnrs ; Oise-Aisne, Meuse-Argonne; dd (pneu) Feb 14, ’19.
Libkie, Leonard A., 23, Chippewa Falls; pvt 333mgbn; overseas; dd (pneu) Sept 28,’18.
Lundgren, Arthur Wilhelm, 23, Stanley; pvt SATC, Carnegie Institute of Technology, Pittsburgh; U. S.; dd. (pneu) Oct 15,’18.
Marchardt, George, 24, Cadott; pvt 23inf ; kia Jy 1, ’18.
Martinson, Carl Martin Julius, 28, Stanley; b Norway; pvt 28inf; Cantigny; kia May 20,’18.
Metzenbauer, Claire, Chippewa Falls; corp 107suptn ; kia (sinking of Tuscania) Feb 5, ’18.
Meuli, Michael, 20, Chippewa Falls; corp 127inf ; Badricourt, Chateau Thierry, Juvigny, Soissons; kia Sept 2, ’18.
Munson, Arthur M., 23, Chippewa Falls; pvt Camp MacArthur Sept autrpldrft; overseas; dd (pneu) Oct 17, ’18.
Nelson, Norman E., 23, Auburn; pvt inf Camp Hancock Sept rpldrft; dd (pneu) Oct 11,’18.
Olson, Oscar L., 24, Cadott; pvt 39inf; U. S.; dd (pneu) Oct 5,’18.
Pagenkopf, Gust, 28, Chippewa Falls; pvt mtrkdiv mgtngcntr; U. S.; dd (influ) Oct 7, ’18.
Pagenkopf, Henry John, 22, Bloomer; pvt Icl 33servco SigC; overseas; dd (pneu) Feb 9,’19.
Pepin, Charles V., 23, Hallie; pvt 343inf; overseas; dd (pneu) Oct 2, ’18.
Peterson, Louis, 22, Stanley; pvt 161depbrig; U. S.; dd (pneu) Oct 5, ”18.
Raatz, Martin E., 24, Cornell; pvt hgco 341inf; overseas; dd (oedema) Oct 1,’18.
Rahubik, Peter, 34, Stanley; WNG; pvt 28inf; kia May 29,’18.
Reich, Herman H., 37, Bloomer; pvt 1cl 16inf; w May 8; kia Jy 19, ’18.
Ringer, Clarence H., 20, New Auburn; pvt 1cl hqco 127inf; Alsace, Aisne-Marne, Oise-Aisne, Meuse-Argonne; dd’ (tuberc) June 10, ’19.
Salter, John E., 19, Bloomer; pvt 68fa; U. S.; dd (pneu) Oct 11, ’18.
Schmitz, Frank M., 22, Cadott; wag supco 331fa; overseas; dd (pneu) Oct 5,’18.
Schnoor, Walter J., 25, Bloomer; NA unasgnd; overseas; dd (pneu) Nov 11, ’18.
Slining, Ole, 31, New Auburn; pvt 1 cl 127inf ; near Badricourt ; kia Jy 19, ’18.
Smoczyk, Peter, 24, Stanley; corp 53inf; overseas; dd (pneu) Oct 10, ’18.
Solie, George, 25, Stanley; pvt 1cl hqhorsesect 107amtn; Alsace, Marne, Juvigny, Terny-Sorny, St. Mihiel, Meuse-Argonne ; dd (pneu) Feb 16, ’19.
Svetlik, Frederick G., 32, Cadott; pvt prvnlunit; dd (pneu) Oct 7, ’18.
Svetlik, Henry P., 24, Cadott; corp 128inf; kia Aug 1,’18.
Verhulst, Cornelius, 26, Holcomb; pvt 353inf; Meuse; kia Nov 1,’18. Wagner, Otto Rudolph, 25, Chippewa Falls; WNG; pvt 1cl 117fbn SigC; kia Sept 12,’18.
Weber, Joseph, 26, Chippewa Falls; pvt inf Camp Hancock Sept rpldrft; overseas; dd (pneu) Oct 7,’18.
Weisenberger, Earl Odear, 25, m, Jim Falls; WNG; pvt 107suptn; kia (sinking of Tuscania) Feb 5,’18.
Wiensch, Joseph, 21, Cornell; pvt 354inf; Verdun sec; kia Oct 20, ’18.
Yakesh, John, 21, Bloomer; mus hgco 16inf ; dw Nov 10, ’18.
Navy
Gailloux, Fred Joseph, 24, Chippewa Falls; seaman 2c1; d Training Station, Great Lakes, Ill., Sept 27, ’18.
Gorton, Hobart, 21, Jim Falls; cm 2cl; d Naval Hospital, Great Lakes, Ill., Sept 26, ’18.
Johnson, Theodore Bernhardt, New Auburn; seaman 2cl; d Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa., Oct 2, ’18.
Lord, Thomas Joseph, 27, Cornell; seaman 2c1; d Naval Hospital, Hampton Roads, Va., Sept 27, ’18.
Nelson, Walter, 26, Boyd; seaman 2c1; d Naval Hospital, Great Lakes, Ill., Sept 26, ’18.
Marines
Lloyd, Robert Edmund, 24, Chippewa Falls; sgt 20co; Toulon, Aisne defnsve; dw June 7, ’18.