James Ray Spitzer

World War I
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Fallen

Cando, ND

County:
Towner

Date of Loss:

Branch of Service:
Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent:
Company H, 358th Infantry

Circumstances:

Killed in action on Nov. 10, 1918.

Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on April 5, 1921, and buried at Cando, N. Dak.

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

Information found in Volume 4, page 3059 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Biography:

Registered Towner county. Born, Broadway, Va., Nov. 19, 1896, of American parents. Occupation - clerk. Inducted at Cando on April 28, 1918. Sent to Camp Dodge, Iowa. Served in Company K, 350th Infantry, to May 16, 1918; Company H, 358th Infantry, to death. Overseas from June 20, 1918, to death. Engagements: Offensives: St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne. Defensive Sectors: Puvenelle and Villers-en-Haye (Lorraine).