Person Record
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Name |
Wolf, August C. |
Notes |
August G. Wolf was born in Sheboygan, Wisconsin on August 8, 1888, the son of Martha Strassburger and Henry Wolf. He enlisted in Company C, 2nd Wisconsin National Guard about 1906, and had risen to the rank of 2nd Lieutenant by June 5, 1917. In 1910, he was working as a salesman in a department store. He was working as a clerk in Sheboygan at the H. C. Prange Company in 1917. When the regiment was nationalized, he was assigned to Company C, 150th Machinegun Battalion. During the assault on the French city of Seringes, Wolf lost his left arm from an artillery shell explosion. He returned to the US and by January 1920, was working as the Chief Page, in the US House of Representatives in Washington DC. He died in January 1921 following his second operation in three weeks for appendicitis. |
