World War I
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Fallen

County:
Towner

Date of Loss:

Branch of Service:
Army

Rank:
Pvt.

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent:
Company L, 164th Infantry

Circumstances:

Killed in action on July 19, 1918.

Buried in France. Reburied in Southfields, London, S. W. 18, England.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

Information found in Volume 2, page 941 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Biography:

Registered Towner county. Born, London, England, Sept. 6, 1893. Citizenship, alien. Occupation - waiter. Enlisted in Company D, 2nd Infantry, North Dakota National Guard, at Devils Lake, on July 31, 1917. Served in Company D, 2nd Infantry, North Dakota National Guard (Company L, 164th Infantry), to Jan. 12, 1918; Machine Gun Company, 26th Infantry, to death. Grades: Corporal, Dec. 10, 1917; Private, Jan. 11, 1918. Overseas from Dec. 15, 1917, to death. Engagements: Offensive: Aisne-Marne. Defensive: Montdidier-Noyon. Defensive Sectors: Ansauville (Lorraine); Cantigny (Picardy).