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Personal info

Full name
BUELTEL, Alphonse Dominick
Date of birth
24 August 1910
Age
34
Place of birth
Granville, Sioux County, Iowa
Hometown
Omaha, Douglas County, Nebraska

Military service

Service number
37153144
Rank
Technician Fifth Grade
Function
unknown
Unit
25th Cavalry Reconnaissance Squadron (Mechanized),
4th Armored Division
Awards
Purple Heart

Death

Status
Killed in Action
Date of death
29 August 1944
Place of death
In or near Dosches, France

Grave

Cemetery
American War Cemetery Epinal
Plot Row Grave
A 28 54

Immediate family

Members
Bernard H. Bueltel (father)
Elizabeth (Bohnnenkamp) Bueltel (mother)
Francis Bueltel (sister)
Regina Bueltel (sister)
Cordula Bueltel (sister)
Emma Bueltel (sister)
Emil Bueltel (brother)
Marie Bueltel (sister)
Armella B. Bueltel (sister)
Mildred Bueltel (sister)
Esther E. Bueltel (sister)
Edmund Bueltel (brother)
Helen E. Bueltel (sister)

More information

T/5 Alphonse D. Bueltel worked for Safeway Stores in Omaha, Nebraska.

He enlisted in March 1943 and was sent overseas in December 1943.

He was first buried at the Temporary American Military Cemetery of Champigneul, France.

Source of information: André Koch, Terry Hirsch, www.abmc.gov, www.wwiimemorial.com, 
www.ancestry.com - 1920/1930 Census / McCabe Family History Site / Headstone and Interment Record / Iowa, Births and Christenings Index, 1800-1999, The Alton Democrat - 28 September 1944

Photo source:
www.findagrave.com - Dwight “Andy” Anderson