Ansel Nicholas Kurtz

Corporal, 1576605, Battery B, 119th Field Artillery, 32d Division

Silver Star. Citation Orders No. 3, General Headquarters, A. E. F., France, June 3, 1919: The following named officers and enlisted men of the American Expeditionary Forces are cited for gallantry in action are entitled to wear a silver star..........: Private Ansel N. Kurtz, Battery B, 119th Field Artillery. For gallantry in action near Nantillois, France, September 29, 1918, in caring for the wounded under heavy shell fire......By command of General Pershing: James G. Harbord, Chief of Staff, Official: Robert C. Davis, Adjutant General.

Record. Born December 12, 1891, Madison; son of Edward F. and Thirza (Allen) Kurtz. Farmer, Madison. Enlisted July 10, 1917, Madison. Training: Fort Benjamin Harrison; Camp Shelby, Mississippi. Assigned to Company I, 4th Infantry, Indiana National Guard; transferred to Battery E, 139th Field Artillery; to Battery B, 119th Field Artillery. Corporal, August 5, 1917; private, March 20, 1918; corporal, March 1, 1919. Overseas June 12, 1918-May 3, 1919. Battles: Aisne-Marne, Chateau-Thierry, Soissons, Meuse-Argonne, Montfaucon, Champagne. Wounded September 29, 1918m Montfaucon. Discharged May 17, 1919.

Madison.