Lester Mills Smith

World War I
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Fallen

Grand Forks, ND

County:
Divide

Date of Loss:

Branch of Service:
Army

Rank:
2nd Lt.

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent:
Battery C, 107th Field Artillery

Circumstances:

Killed in action on Oct. 2, 1918.

Remains returned to U. S. Sept. 6, 1921, and buried in Memorial Park Cemetery, Grand Forks, N. Dak.

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

Information found in Volume 4, page 3014 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Biography:

Registered Divide county. Born, Grand Forks, N. Dak., May 7, 1892, of Canadian parents. Occupation - lawyer. Inducted at Crosby on Sept. 18, 1917. Sent to Camp Dodge, Iowa. Served in Battery B, 338th Field Artillery, to Jan. 12, 1918; 3rd Officers Training School, Camp Dodge, Iowa, to April 19, 1918; Battery B, 338th Field Artillery, to discharge. Grades: Corporal, Oct. 18, 1917; Sergeant, Dec. 11, 1917. Discharged on July 11, 1918, to accept commission. Commissioned 2nd Lieutenant, July 12, 1918. Assigned to Artillery School, Samur, France, to Sept. 9, 1918; Battery C, 107th Field Artillery, to death. Overseas from May 23, 1918, to death. Engagement: Offensive: Meuse-Argonne. Defensive Sector: Clermont (Lorraine).