George Bolte


Inducted October 3, 1917 at Sidney, Montana
Army Number 2260908
Inducted at Sidney, Montana, on October 3, 1917; sent to Camp Lewis, Washington
Served in 166th Depot Brigade, to October 25, 1917; Company H, 362nd Infantry, to March 15, 1918; Machine Gun Company, 362nd Infantry, to discharge
Grades Private 1st Class, January 10, 1918; Corporal, February 23, 1918; Private, March 13, 1918; Private 1st Class, May 15, 1918; Corporal, October 21, 1918
Departure July 6, 1918, at New York, New York on the RMS Empress Of Russia
Overseas from July 6, 1918, to April 20, 1919

Engagements
Offensives Meuse-Argonne; Ypres-Lys
Defensive Sector Aubreville (Lorraine)
Departure April 7, 1919 at St Nazaire, France on the USS Virginian (ID-3920) Arrival April 20, 1919 at Hoboken, New Jersey Discharged at Fort D.A. Russell, Wyoming, on May 5, 1919, as a Sergeant


George Bolte, 67, Dies in Sidney
George Bolte, 67, of Sidney, died early Friday morning, December 13, 1963, at Community Memorial Hospital in Sidney, Montana.

Mr. Bolte was born on May 8, 1896, at Manning, Iowa, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Deidrich and Caroline (Rohrkasten) Bolte. In the early 1900s his family moved to Anamoose, North Dakota, where he grew up.

He served in the Army in World War I as a sergeant. He later moved to Jamestown, North Dakota, in 1922, and in 1924 he married Florence Manly at Jamestown. They moved to Fessenden, North Dakota, in 1928 where he operated a Chevrolet agency. They had lived in the Sidney area since 1932.
He was a member of the American Legion.

Surviving are his widow, a brother Jerome Bolte of Denver, Colorado, three sisters, Mrs. Eric Zadow of Sidney, Mrs. William Dahlgren of Worthington, Minnesota, and Mrs. Carl Heer of Anamoose.

Funeral services will be 2 p.m. Tuesday in Cloyd-Gorder Mortuary Chapel. Burial will be in St. Matthew's Catholic Cemetery, Sidney, Montana.
Billings Gazette Billings, Montana December 14, 1963