To request a copy of this photo for your own personal use, please contact our state coordinator. If you are not a family member or the original photographer — please refrain from copying or distributing this photo to other websites.
Thank you for visiting the Arizona Gravestone Photo Project. On this site you can upload gravestone photos, locate ancestors and perform genealogy research. If you have a relative buried in Arizona, we encourage you to upload a digital image using our Submit a Photo page. Contributing to this genealogy archive helps family historians and genealogy researchers locate their relatives and complete their family tree.
Submitted: 6/17/07 • Approved: 6/21/07 • Last Updated: 3/25/18 • R51662-G0-S3
b. Oct. 8, 1892, Hampton, Neb.
d. Feb. 26, 1974, Prescott, Az.
h/o Orlinda (Albrecht) Hoeft
Occ: Farmer
WW I Vet. - US Army
Comments: enlisted in Machine Gun Company, 1st Infantry, North Dakota National Guard, at Grand Forks, on July 15, 1917; served in Machine Gun Company, 1st Infantry, North Dakota National Guard (Machine Gun Company, 164th Infantry), to Jan. 9, 1918; Company D, 1st Brigade, Machine Gun Battalion (Company D, 2nd Machine Gun Battalion), to discharge. Grades. Private 1st Class, Nov. 1, 1917; Corporal, Oct. 25, 1918; Sergeant, Sept. 13, 1919; overseas from Dec. 15, 1917, to Sept. 3, 1919; wounded, slightly, May 4, 1918. Engagements: Defensive: Montdidier-Noyon. Offensives: Aisne-Marne; St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne. Defensive Sectors: Ansauville and Saizerais (Lorraine); Cantigny (Picardy). Discharged at Camp Dodge, Iowa, on Sept. 24, 1919, as a Sergeant. Cited in General Orders No. 5, Headquarters, 1st Infantry Brigade, AEF, Selters, Germany, June 1, 1919, for gallant and courageous conduct during his participation in all of the four major operations of this Division: Montdidier-Noyon defensive; Aisne-Marne offensive; St. Mihiel offensive; Meuse-Argonne offensive. Cited in General Orders No. 67, Headquarters, 1st Division, American Forces in Germany, Neuwied, Germany, Aug. 13, 1919, for gallantry in action and devotion to duty. "Near the Paris-Soissons road on the 21st July, 1918, displayed unusual courage by voluntarily taking forward a machine gun to fire upon troops forming for a counter attack, although the members of the squad of which he was a member were either killed or wounded." Entitled to wear two silver stars.
Contributed on 6/17/07 by jlbranson78
Email This Contributor
Suggest a Correction
Record #: 51662