Memorial Submitted by:

Memorial Submitted by: Marty Smith Wells

In Memory of Corporal Howard William Dietrich, son of Charles W. and Mary Frances Boyer Dietrich, who succumbed to pneumonia, while serving in the trenches in Vittle, France. He was born in South Bend, July 14, 1896, and entered service June 28, 1917, in Grand Forks, North Dakota. He was sent to Camp Robinson, Wisconsin; assigned to Headquarters Company, 1st Field Artillery Brigade; and sailed overseas November  1, 1917. He died September 27, 1918. Howard is buried in American Cemetery No. 258, Vittle, Vosges, France, and was cited by Commander of the First Division for gallantry in action. There is a headstone in the Dietrich Family Plot in Riverview Cemetery, in honor of Howard.