FORMER TITONKA BOY WAR CASUALTY. RICHARD BATT, 19, KILLED IN FRANCE ACTION SEPT. 25. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Batt, Algona; Also Three Brothers Service Uncle Sam, One Overseas.
Mr. & Mrs. Wm. Batt Algona, Iowa. The secretary of war desires me to express his deep regret that your son, Pfc. Richard W. Batt, was killed in action on September 25th in France. Letter follows. J.A. Ulie, Adj. Gen.
The above was the message received by Mrs. and Mrs. Wm. Batt, 314 West McGregor street, Saturday. Their son, Richard, was inducted in August, 1943, and after taking training in camps here was sent to Italy with the 36th infantry and saw action in Italy and southern France up to the time of his death. The message states that he was killed on the 25th of September, just a day before his 20th birthday.
Family Has Fine Record. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Batt are the parents of six sons and two daughters. The four older boys, Richard now dead, William (Junior), Daryle and Howard, serve Uncle Sam in this war. William (Jr.) was inducted the 22nd of February, 1943, and is a corporal gunner with an anti-tank corps. He is now somewhere in France, having been sent overseas this last September. Daryle was inducted August 14, 1944, and is now at Camp Robinson, Arkansas, with an infantry replacement training center Howard left Monday night for Minneapolis, where he is joining the Merchant Marines. What a splendid family record this is one son lost and three others fighting for Uncle Sam. All of them Kossuth born, and a credit to their home county.
In Defense Work. The Wm. Batt family is strictly a Kossuth product. Mr. and Mrs. Batt lived in the Swea City neighborhood from 1922 to 1927. Then they moved to Titonka where they lived since 1927 ____ 1943. It was September 15th, 1942, that Mr. Batt and the three sons, Richard, William (Jr.) and Daryle, left for the west coast to enter defense work. They visited Seattle and Portland but didn’t care to enter there and they came back to Sidney, Nebraska, where they entered the employ of I.C.U. Building an ordnance plant for the war department. William Jr. the following February left the group and came to Algona to answer his country’s call to service. Richard was transferred to a government project at Provo, S.D. December 1st, 1942, and worked there until February 1, 1943. Then he returned to Titonka and was employed at farming until the following August when he, too, answered the call to fight for freedom. Daryle, the third son, and his father, transferred to Pratt, Kansas, and were employed in defense work there until May of 1943.
Move to Algona. In June, of 1943, Mr. and Mrs. Batt and children moved to Algona and here the father was employed by the International Harvester for about a year. It was only within the past several months that he entered the employ of the Algona Barber shop. And it was about that time, in August of this year, that the third son, Daryle, heard the call and responded and is now with Uncle Sam in an Arkansas camp. Then last night, Monday, the fourth son, Howard, left the home to also have a part in the battles for freedom when he joined the marine corps in Minneapolis.
The two daughters, Betty Jean and Maxine, and the two sons, Robert John and Harold, remaining at home, are too young to take up arms for their country or they too, would no doubt be a part of the millions of America’s youth fighting that this country might continue to live a nation of free men. It is a record of which Mr. and Mrs. Batt, father and mother, may rightfully and well be proud.
Contributor: Jean Wilson (48841367) • [email protected]
Mr. & Mrs. Wm. Batt Algona, Iowa. The secretary of war desires me to express his deep regret that your son, Pfc. Richard W. Batt, was killed in action on September 25th in France. Letter follows. J.A. Ulie, Adj. Gen.
The above was the message received by Mrs. and Mrs. Wm. Batt, 314 West McGregor street, Saturday. Their son, Richard, was inducted in August, 1943, and after taking training in camps here was sent to Italy with the 36th infantry and saw action in Italy and southern France up to the time of his death. The message states that he was killed on the 25th of September, just a day before his 20th birthday.
Family Has Fine Record. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Batt are the parents of six sons and two daughters. The four older boys, Richard now dead, William (Junior), Daryle and Howard, serve Uncle Sam in this war. William (Jr.) was inducted the 22nd of February, 1943, and is a corporal gunner with an anti-tank corps. He is now somewhere in France, having been sent overseas this last September. Daryle was inducted August 14, 1944, and is now at Camp Robinson, Arkansas, with an infantry replacement training center Howard left Monday night for Minneapolis, where he is joining the Merchant Marines. What a splendid family record this is one son lost and three others fighting for Uncle Sam. All of them Kossuth born, and a credit to their home county.
In Defense Work. The Wm. Batt family is strictly a Kossuth product. Mr. and Mrs. Batt lived in the Swea City neighborhood from 1922 to 1927. Then they moved to Titonka where they lived since 1927 ____ 1943. It was September 15th, 1942, that Mr. Batt and the three sons, Richard, William (Jr.) and Daryle, left for the west coast to enter defense work. They visited Seattle and Portland but didn’t care to enter there and they came back to Sidney, Nebraska, where they entered the employ of I.C.U. Building an ordnance plant for the war department. William Jr. the following February left the group and came to Algona to answer his country’s call to service. Richard was transferred to a government project at Provo, S.D. December 1st, 1942, and worked there until February 1, 1943. Then he returned to Titonka and was employed at farming until the following August when he, too, answered the call to fight for freedom. Daryle, the third son, and his father, transferred to Pratt, Kansas, and were employed in defense work there until May of 1943.
Move to Algona. In June, of 1943, Mr. and Mrs. Batt and children moved to Algona and here the father was employed by the International Harvester for about a year. It was only within the past several months that he entered the employ of the Algona Barber shop. And it was about that time, in August of this year, that the third son, Daryle, heard the call and responded and is now with Uncle Sam in an Arkansas camp. Then last night, Monday, the fourth son, Howard, left the home to also have a part in the battles for freedom when he joined the marine corps in Minneapolis.
The two daughters, Betty Jean and Maxine, and the two sons, Robert John and Harold, remaining at home, are too young to take up arms for their country or they too, would no doubt be a part of the millions of America’s youth fighting that this country might continue to live a nation of free men. It is a record of which Mr. and Mrs. Batt, father and mother, may rightfully and well be proud.
Contributor: Jean Wilson (48841367) • [email protected]
FORMER TITONKA BOY WAR CASUALTY. RICHARD BATT, 19, KILLED IN FRANCE ACTION SEPT. 25. Son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Batt, Algona; Also Three Brothers Service Uncle Sam, One Overseas.
Mr. & Mrs. Wm. Batt Algona, Iowa. The secretary of war desires me to express his deep regret that your son, Pfc. Richard W. Batt, was killed in action on September 25th in France. Letter follows. J.A. Ulie, Adj. Gen.
The above was the message received by Mrs. and Mrs. Wm. Batt, 314 West McGregor street, Saturday. Their son, Richard, was inducted in August, 1943, and after taking training in camps here was sent to Italy with the 36th infantry and saw action in Italy and southern France up to the time of his death. The message states that he was killed on the 25th of September, just a day before his 20th birthday.
Family Has Fine Record. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Batt are the parents of six sons and two daughters. The four older boys, Richard now dead, William (Junior), Daryle and Howard, serve Uncle Sam in this war. William (Jr.) was inducted the 22nd of February, 1943, and is a corporal gunner with an anti-tank corps. He is now somewhere in France, having been sent overseas this last September. Daryle was inducted August 14, 1944, and is now at Camp Robinson, Arkansas, with an infantry replacement training center Howard left Monday night for Minneapolis, where he is joining the Merchant Marines. What a splendid family record this is one son lost and three others fighting for Uncle Sam. All of them Kossuth born, and a credit to their home county.
In Defense Work. The Wm. Batt family is strictly a Kossuth product. Mr. and Mrs. Batt lived in the Swea City neighborhood from 1922 to 1927. Then they moved to Titonka where they lived since 1927 ____ 1943. It was September 15th, 1942, that Mr. Batt and the three sons, Richard, William (Jr.) and Daryle, left for the west coast to enter defense work. They visited Seattle and Portland but didn’t care to enter there and they came back to Sidney, Nebraska, where they entered the employ of I.C.U. Building an ordnance plant for the war department. William Jr. the following February left the group and came to Algona to answer his country’s call to service. Richard was transferred to a government project at Provo, S.D. December 1st, 1942, and worked there until February 1, 1943. Then he returned to Titonka and was employed at farming until the following August when he, too, answered the call to fight for freedom. Daryle, the third son, and his father, transferred to Pratt, Kansas, and were employed in defense work there until May of 1943.
Move to Algona. In June, of 1943, Mr. and Mrs. Batt and children moved to Algona and here the father was employed by the International Harvester for about a year. It was only within the past several months that he entered the employ of the Algona Barber shop. And it was about that time, in August of this year, that the third son, Daryle, heard the call and responded and is now with Uncle Sam in an Arkansas camp. Then last night, Monday, the fourth son, Howard, left the home to also have a part in the battles for freedom when he joined the marine corps in Minneapolis.
The two daughters, Betty Jean and Maxine, and the two sons, Robert John and Harold, remaining at home, are too young to take up arms for their country or they too, would no doubt be a part of the millions of America’s youth fighting that this country might continue to live a nation of free men. It is a record of which Mr. and Mrs. Batt, father and mother, may rightfully and well be proud.
Contributor: Jean Wilson (48841367) • [email protected]
Mr. & Mrs. Wm. Batt Algona, Iowa. The secretary of war desires me to express his deep regret that your son, Pfc. Richard W. Batt, was killed in action on September 25th in France. Letter follows. J.A. Ulie, Adj. Gen.
The above was the message received by Mrs. and Mrs. Wm. Batt, 314 West McGregor street, Saturday. Their son, Richard, was inducted in August, 1943, and after taking training in camps here was sent to Italy with the 36th infantry and saw action in Italy and southern France up to the time of his death. The message states that he was killed on the 25th of September, just a day before his 20th birthday.
Family Has Fine Record. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Batt are the parents of six sons and two daughters. The four older boys, Richard now dead, William (Junior), Daryle and Howard, serve Uncle Sam in this war. William (Jr.) was inducted the 22nd of February, 1943, and is a corporal gunner with an anti-tank corps. He is now somewhere in France, having been sent overseas this last September. Daryle was inducted August 14, 1944, and is now at Camp Robinson, Arkansas, with an infantry replacement training center Howard left Monday night for Minneapolis, where he is joining the Merchant Marines. What a splendid family record this is one son lost and three others fighting for Uncle Sam. All of them Kossuth born, and a credit to their home county.
In Defense Work. The Wm. Batt family is strictly a Kossuth product. Mr. and Mrs. Batt lived in the Swea City neighborhood from 1922 to 1927. Then they moved to Titonka where they lived since 1927 ____ 1943. It was September 15th, 1942, that Mr. Batt and the three sons, Richard, William (Jr.) and Daryle, left for the west coast to enter defense work. They visited Seattle and Portland but didn’t care to enter there and they came back to Sidney, Nebraska, where they entered the employ of I.C.U. Building an ordnance plant for the war department. William Jr. the following February left the group and came to Algona to answer his country’s call to service. Richard was transferred to a government project at Provo, S.D. December 1st, 1942, and worked there until February 1, 1943. Then he returned to Titonka and was employed at farming until the following August when he, too, answered the call to fight for freedom. Daryle, the third son, and his father, transferred to Pratt, Kansas, and were employed in defense work there until May of 1943.
Move to Algona. In June, of 1943, Mr. and Mrs. Batt and children moved to Algona and here the father was employed by the International Harvester for about a year. It was only within the past several months that he entered the employ of the Algona Barber shop. And it was about that time, in August of this year, that the third son, Daryle, heard the call and responded and is now with Uncle Sam in an Arkansas camp. Then last night, Monday, the fourth son, Howard, left the home to also have a part in the battles for freedom when he joined the marine corps in Minneapolis.
The two daughters, Betty Jean and Maxine, and the two sons, Robert John and Harold, remaining at home, are too young to take up arms for their country or they too, would no doubt be a part of the millions of America’s youth fighting that this country might continue to live a nation of free men. It is a record of which Mr. and Mrs. Batt, father and mother, may rightfully and well be proud.
Contributor: Jean Wilson (48841367) • [email protected]
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