Captain Nelson M. Holderman (World War I) is a Notable burial at https://www.cem.va.gov/cems/nchp/goldengate.asp. He received the Medal of Honor while serving in the U.S. Army, 307th Infantry, 77th Division, for actions northeast of Binarville, in the forest of Argonne, France, October 2–8, 1918.  Holderman was born in Trumbull, Nebraska, on 10 November 1885 to Upton Christian Holderman, Jr. and Mary Morse. His father had served as a Private in Company "A", 22nd Iowa Infantry Regiment during the American Civil War. He was named Nelson Miles Holderman after Nelson A. Miles, a leading officer in the Civil War and recipient of the Medal of Honor.  Holderman died in 1953.  https://valor.militarytimes.com/hero/2441.
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l-r: Holderman, Lt's. AK Ford and Chas Swann in 1917

l-r: Holderman, Lt's. AK Ford and Chas Swann in 1917.

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