Jacob Dorgeloos

World War I
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Fallen

County:
Wells

Date of Loss:

Branch of Service:
Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent:
Company D, 357th Infantry

Circumstances:

Killed in action on Oct. 26, 1918.

Buried in Grave 33, Row 38, Block E, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Information found in Volume 1, page 746 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Biography:

Registered Wells county. Born, Holland, March 31, 1893. Citizenship, alien. Occupation - farmer. Inducted at Fessenden on April 27, 1918. Sent to Camp Dodge, Iowa. Served in 163rd Depot Brigade, to April 29, 1918; Company M, 352nd Infantry, to May 16, 1918; Company D, 357th Infantry, to death. Overseas from June 20, 1918, to death. Engagements: Offensives: St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne. Defensive Sectors: Puvenelle and Villers-en-Haye (Lorraine).