Garfield Jerome Brye

WWI Student Army Training Corps
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Fallen

County:
Walsh

Date of Loss:

Branch of Service:
Army

Rank:
Private

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent:
Student Army Training Corps UND Grand Forks ND

Circumstances:

Died while serving as a member of the Student Army Training Corps  on the UND campus in Grand Forks during the 1918 flu pandemic. Name included on the UND S.A.T.C. website

Buried at Grafton Lutheran Cemetery, Walsh County North Dakota.

Name is included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND as Garfield J Bryne. 

Information found in Volume 1, page 433 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Biography:

Walsh County Registrant. Born Grafton North Dakota July 22, 1899 of Norwegian-American parents. Occupation: Musician. Inducted at Grand Forks on October 4,1918. Sent to University of North Dakota. Served in Students Army Training Corps to death. Died at Grand Forks ND on October 23, 1918 along with 26 fellow soldiers during the Flu Pandemic.