American Battle Monuments Commission – The World War II Honor Roll

Edgar J. Boschult

Lieutenant Colonel, U.S. Army

Service # O-206164

76th Field Artillery Battalion

Entered the Service from: Nebraska

Died: 8-Nov-44

Buried at: Plot C Row 3 Grave 42

Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery

Henri-Chapell, Belgium

Awards: Purple Heart, French Croix de Guerre with Palm

Pilot Tribune 30 Nov 1944

Lt. Col. Edgar J. Boschult, a native of Arlington, died in action in Germany on Nov. 8 according to a war department message received by his widow, Inez K. Boschult of Lincoln. The former Washington county resident, at one time Nebraska American Legion commander, was a brother of Mrs. Roland Wachter of Herman.

Overseas since last July, Col. Boschult was commanding officer of an artillery battalion. He had served in World War I as an enlisted navy man, receiving a reserve officers army commission following graduation from the University of Nebraska.

Surviving Col. Boschult are his widow, a Lincoln junior high school teacher; two brothers, Wilbur Boschult of Fremont, and Elmer of Lawler, Ia.; six sisters, Mrs. A. G. Borchers of Denver, Mrs. John Schultez of Huntley, Mrs. C. Lester Johnson of Holdrege, Loretta Boschult of Omaha, Mrs. W. C. Meierhenry of Lincoln and Mrs. Roland Wachter of Herman; also uncles and aunts, Mr. and Mrs. Herman Niebaum and Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Rabe of Fremont.

Pilot Tribune 7 Dec 1944

Memorial rites for Lt. Col. Edgar J. Boschult, who was killed in Germany on Nov. 8, were held at Westminster church, Lincoln, Sunday. A native of Washington county, Col. Boschult was a former University of Nebraska employee.

~~~ Obituary courtesy of the Washington County Genealogical Society. Newspaper clippings on file in the Blair Public Library at Blair, Nebraska.~~~