Nolan Oscar Frederick Kalich was born on December 22, 1914. He was the son of Stefan Kalich and Bertha J Ladewig Kalich.

Nolan served in the 131st Field Artillery Battalion, 36th Infantry Division, during World War II. He was taken as a prisoner by the Japanese during the Battle of Java Sea. Nolan died on December 3, 1943, at the age of 28, as a prisoner in Fukuoka camp in Nagasaki - Koyagimachi, Japan. He was ill with spinal meningitis for only three days when he died at 8:00 a.m. He is now buried in the Salem Memorial Cemetery, Freyburg, Fayette County, Texas, USA.
2d Bn, 131st Field Artillery ("The Lost Battalion"). After training with the 36th Division, the unit was separated from the 36th and assigned to the Pacific theater as a reinforcement for the forces in the Philippines. Sailing from the west coast of the U. S. in November, 1941, the unit was at sea at the time of the Pearl Harbor attack and was diverted to Australia. It was later sent as a reinforcement to Australian, British and Dutch forces in Indonesia and was captured by the Japanese in 1942 on the island of Java. The unit was used as slave labor by the Japanese on the Rangoon-Bangkok railroad from 1943-1945 and was liberated at the end of the war. Campaigns: East Indies, 1941-42. Distinguished Unit Commendation Streamer embroidered "JAVA".

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