Military related information:

Service Number -2154884

Company L Platoon Not Known

Company L Muster Roll Mar-Apr 1918 Camp Logan, Houston Tx: Enlisted 23 Feb 1918. Listed as Private. Transferred to 132nd INF per SO#108 Hdq 33rd DIV dtd 20 Apr 1918. Assigned to Co L, 132nd INF per Verbal Order Commanding Officer (VOCO) 23 Apr 1918. - Muster Roll May-June 1918 A.E.F.: Listed as Private. - Muster Roll July 1918 A.E.F.: Listed as Private. - Muster Roll Aug 1918 A.E.F. France: Listed as Private.

- Report: KIA of gun shot wounds, September 5, 1918, received in action at Albert, August 17, 1918, buried September 8, 1918, at St. Sever Rouen, St. Sever Rouen (Seine Inferious). Map No. 31 N W 19.8-313.8. Next of kin, Mr. Fred Petermeier, brother, Baxter, Iowa. Family oral history is he died at a base hospital.

- Remains return to U.S., Army Transport Service, Passenger Lists
Name: Arthur Petermeier
Departure Date: 1921
Departure Place: Port Office, Antwerp, Belgium
Arrival Date: 1921
Arrival Place: Q. M. Gen., Hoboken, NJ
Ship: SOMME
Military Unit: Co. L, 132nd Inf.
Rank: Private
Service Number: 2154884

Biographic:

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the Iowa, State Census Collection
Name: Arthor Petermeier
Residence Date: 1905
Residence Place: Mahaska, Jasper, Iowa, USA
Household Members: Name
Fred Petermeier
Lena Petermeier
John Petermeier
Addie Petermeier
Nora Petermeier
Clarance Petermeier
Simon Petermeier
Florance Petermeier
Fred Petermeier
Lottie Petermeier
Charlie Petermeier
Arthur Petermeier

1910 United States Federal Census
Name: Arthur Petermeier
Age in 1910: 21
Birth Year: abt 1889
Birthplace: Iowa
Home in 1910: Logan, Marshall, Iowa
Race: White
Gender: Male
Relation to Head of House: Servant
Marital status: Single
Father's Birthplace: Germany
Mother's Birthplace: Germany
Native Tongue: English
Occupation: Farm Laborer
Industry: Working Out
Employer, Employee or Other: Wage Earner
Able to Read: Yes
Able to Write: Yes
Out of Work: N
Number of weeks out of work: 0
Neighbors: View others on page
Household Members:
Name Age
Albert F Polh* 49
Charlotta W Polh* 35
Earl A Polh* 12
El*A Polh* 11
Erma L R Polh* 9
Roland F Polh* 6
Minnie V Polh* 3
Albert G Polh* 0
Arthur Petermeier 21

Death Information: Burial Location 

Find A Grave:
Name: Arthur Albert Petermeier
Birth Date: 8 Jun 1888
Birth Place: Jasper County, Iowa
Death Date: 6 Oct 1918
Death Place: Chateau-Thierry, Departement de l'Aisne, Picardie, France
Cemetery: Restland Cemetery
Burial: Baxter, Jasper County, Iowa
Father: Friedrich Wilhelm Petermeier
Mother: Anna Marie Christine Charlotte Petermeier
Arthur was the last of 13 children born to Friedrich and Anna Petermeier in rural Jasper County east of Baxter. His parents had been born in Germany and the family spoke German and English.

In Friedrich's obituary in 1910 his 13 children were listed as Simon, Fredrick, August, Wilhelmina, Louisa, Charlotta, Wilhelm, Matilda, Mary Sophia, Pauline, Charles, Johann, and Arthur.

When Anna died seven years later in 1917 their children are listed the same, except Arthur is referred to as Albert.

Arthur enlisted in the U.S. Army during World War I. He was wounded in an instrumental battle at Chateau-Thierry in 1918 and later died in the base hospital.

The children of Arthur's brother Fredrick recalled their father gathered them together one day and forbade them from speaking German again. Whether his decision was based on his brother Arthur and son John joining the U.S. military, sparked by Arthur's death, or caused by something else is unknown.

From an Iowa death certificate accounting, it appears Arthur's remains were brought back from France and received on July 20, 1921.

Miscellaneous:

Family Members listed on Find A Grave

Parents:
Friedrich Wilhelm Petermeier 1834–1910
Anna Marie Christine Charlotte Boeke Petermeier1843–1917
Siblings:
Simon Fredrick Petermeier 1866–1933
Fredrick Wilhelm Petermeier 1868–1943
August F. Petermeier 1869–1945
Minnie C Petermeier Wilsterman 1871–1957
Louisa Fredericka Petermeier Polhamus 1873–1962
Charlotte Wilhelmina Petermeier Polhamus 1875–1956
William Henry Petermeier 1877–1961
Matilda C Petermeier Flora 1879–1955
Mary Sophia Petermeier Steinberger 1880–1964
Pauline Augusta Emile Petermeier McMahon 1882–1975
Charles Henry Petermeier1885–1963
Johnie Petermeier1887–1887

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