Frank Leland Shuman

World War I
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Fallen

County:
Burleigh

Date of Loss:

Branch of Service:
Army

Rank:
Maj.

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent:
309th Field Signal Battalion, Company B

Circumstances:

Died at Camp Hospital No. 54, France, Oct. 19, 1918.

Buried Oct. 20, 1918, Cemetery No. 87, Grave 793, Perijuex, Dordogne, France.

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

Information found in Volume 4, page 2952 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Biography:

Not a registrant, over age. Born, Dixon, Ill., Sept. 18,1880, of American parents. Occupation - area telephone manager. Appointed from civil life and commissioned Captain, in Officers Reserve Corps, at Bismarck, on June 21, 1917. Called into active service as a Captain, on July 20, 1917. Assigned to 309th Field Signal Battalion, Company B, to death. Promoted: Major, Nov. 28, 1917. Overseas from Sept. 9, 1918, to death. Previous military record: Wisconsin National Guard, for five years.