Prell Hugo August

Monuments

First Infantry Division - Meuse Argonne

Name:

Hugo August Prell

Rank:

Private

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Unit:

28th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division

Date of Death:

1918-10-06

State:

Ohio

Cemetery:

Meuse-Argonne American Cem., Lorraine, France

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Tablets of the Missing

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Hugo August Prell was born at Batesville, IN, on 18 June 1887. When he was called to military service in March 1918, he was working as a carpenter in Cincinnati. He served in the U.S. Army during World War I as a Private in Company G, 28th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division. In France, he was sent into action at Saizeras, St. Mihiel, and at the Meuse-Argonne. He was killed instantly by a trench mortar shell but declared "Missing" on October 6, 1918 and is memorialized on Tablets of the Missing, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Departement de la Meuse, Lorraine, France.