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- World War I draft registration card: Herbert Wunnenberg. Home address: R.R.2, Sperry, Iowa. Birth date 26 September 1895. Natural born citizen. Birth place: Sperry, Iowa. Occupation: farmer. Employer, Fred Wunnenberg, Sperry, Iowa. Marriage status: single. Requesting exemption: yes, needed on father's farm. Height: medium. Build: slender. Eyes: Gray. Hair: brown. Date of registration: 6-5-1917.
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- Herbert Otto Wunnenberg died in action in World War I.
From newspaper articles:
Bring Home Body of H. Wunnenberg. Young Hero Who Was Shot Through Lung In France Will Be Buried Here. Fred C. Wunnenberg of Sperry, Ia., received a telegram announcing the arrival of his son's body in Hoboken and the remains will be brought to Burlington and laid to rest. Private Herbert O. Wunnenberg was killed in France. It was the drive when the Yanks were pushing forward close on the heels of the retreating Hun. Private Wunnenberg was among the first. A bullet pierced his lung and he fell to the ground. When the ambulance drove up Private Wunnenberg stood on his feet despite the fact that he was fatally wounded, according to letters received by his father from the soldiers who were on the battlefield at the time. The young man was taken back to the hospital where he passed away, after battling for life for six days. He made the supreme sacrifice and died a hero. Private Wunnenberg was a member of Company C, 139th Infantry. When the body arrives here a military funeral will be arranged, and he will be laid to rest with full military honors.
From the Hawkeye Gazette, Burlington, Iowa, Friday, 2 September 1921.
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- Send soldier’s body. Remains of Hugo [typo] Wunnenberg on way to Burlington. A telegram was received by B.A. Prugh [funeral director], Wednesday night, stating that the body of Private Herbert O. Wunnenberg, Burlington soldier who died in France, would leave Jersey City this morning at 9 o’clock under military escort, and would be sent to Burlington via Chicago.
Private Wunnenberg was wounded in battle and died later in a hospital. The arrangements for the funeral will be made after the body reaches Burlington.
From The Hawkeye Gazette, Burlington, Iowa. Thursday morning, 22 September 1921.
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- Soldier buried at Latty. 600 attend services for Private H. O. Wunnenberg. Six hundred people attended the funeral of Private Herbert O. Wunnenberg, held at the Lutheran church at Latty Sunday morning at 10.30 o’clock, to do honor to the memory of the Latty soldier who was killed in France.
Thirty troopers from the Burlington cavalry, Mediapolis American Legion men and others filled the church. The cavalry men left Burlington at 9 o’clock in the morning for the services.
From The Hawkeye Gazette, Burlington, Iowa. Tuesday morning, 27 September 1921.
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- Cavalry goes to Latty on Sunday. Military funeral for Private Herbert O. Wunnenberg. Cavalrymen of Burlington will go to Latty, Ia., on Sunday morning, and will have charge of the military funeral at that place for Private Herbert O. Wunnenberg, World war soldier, who met death in France.
The remains arrived in Burlington last night.
Captain George B. Little, of the troop, issued orders today that the members of the troop, mentioned below, shall report at the armory on Sunday morning at 8 o’clock for the purpose of getting their equipment which will be used on the trip. Men without cars will be taken to the stables in machines which will be available and promptly at nine o’clock, the cavalrymen, mounted, will leave the Fair grounds and make a start for Latty. The funeral is at 10:30 o’clock Sunday morning.
Any men who are unable to go and whose names appear below are asked to notify Captain Little at once:
Formation.
Captain George B. Little in charge.
First Lieutenant Norman N. Jones.
Second Lieutenant John J. King.
Color Bearers - Corporal Carl Schoell and Saddler William Dodd.
Color Guard - Corporals Mark Hippe and John Lau.
Buglers Sergeants Walter W. Erskine and William E. Turner.
Firing Squad - Sergeant Frederick W. Sauers in charge. Sergeants Raymond T. Schoell, Waldemar Hoelzen, Roland Hahn, Reuben Hippe, Corporal William Meck and Privates Waverly Brown, George Bruhl and Lester Fletcher.
Escort – First Sergeant Clio V. Boyer. Sergeants Harry Dobbins, Lyman C. Cook, William T. Bailey, Paul N. Dorsey, Herbert L. Johnson, Corporal Ralph F. Peters and Privates Michael Corco, Earnest Gubba, Walter E. Galvin, Carl Weisner, Howard Hargaugh.
From the Hawkeye Gazette, Burlington, Iowa, 1921.
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