Schmitt Peter Donat

Monuments

ISOB Schmitt - 32nd Infantry Division, WW1

Name:

Peter Donat Schmitt

Rank:

Gunner

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Unit:

120th Field Artillery Regiment, 32nd Infantry Division

Date of Death:

1918-11-19

State:

Wisconsin

Cemetery:

Saumur

Plot:

4150

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Comments:

Enlisted 14 July 1917 at Merrill, Wisconsin (Troop H, 1st CAV, WIsconsin National Guard) Reported for service 15 July 1917 Transferred Battery FA 28 September 1917 Depart 21 3 March 18 Arrived in France March 1918 Died 19 November 1918
He was a gunner on the front line when suddenly, one ammunition box exploded inside the breech of a cannon, destroying it. Peter, badly injured, was transported to the field-hospital 50 in Saumur, where he died.
Before he died, he asked to be buried in French soil. He is the only American interred at Saumur that remains to this day. All others were repatriated to the United States, but Schmitt's parents did not want his body to be disturbed. (From Find a grave)