Jackson County IA Archives Military Records.....Roeder, Roland P. April 1, 1919
WWI Battery E, 15th Field Artillery, A. E. F.
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Springbrook Native Missing In Action
Jackson Sentinel, Maquoketa, Iowa, April 1, 1919

Springbrook Native Is Missing In Action

Relatives have been advised that Roland P. Roeder of Battery E, 15th Field 
Artillery, Allied Expeditionary Forces, France, and who has been reported 
missing in action since October 15, 1918, has not as yet been located. The 
last known of him he was fighting on the Champagne front and was in the detail 
to act as runner on liaison with the infantry on battery. Some cards which 
belonged to him were sent to his parents by a comrade, were found in Argonne 
Forest, which is several miles further east and this might indicate he was 
either shell-shocked with identity lost, or a prisoner of war or killed, and 
his pockets rifled by a German soldier who had afterwards lost them where they 
were found. He was wounded in the Champagne attack in which the Americans took 
Mt. Blanc in the vicinity of Somme and St. Etienne southeast of Rheims. He was 
cited for bravery. He is the only son of Mr. and Mrs. P. J. Roeder of Grundy 
Center, Iowa, who formerly resided in Jackson County, being a merchant at 
Springbrook, where the young man was born. He is a nephew of Philys and John 
Roeder of Maquoketa and Ted Roeder of Springbrook.


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