World War I
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Fallen
Fallen
County:
Mountrail
Date of Loss:
Branch of Service:
Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent:
Company G, 139th Infantry
Circumstances:
Killed in action on Sept. 29, 1918.
Grave unlocated.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 3, page 1832 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
Biography:
Registered Mountrail county. Born, Stavanger, Norway, Sept. 6, 1896. Declarant citizen. Occupation - farmer. Inducted at Stanley on March 29, 1918. Sent to Camp Dodge, Iowa. Served in 163rd Depot Brigade, to April 22, 1918; Company G, 139th Infantry, to death. Overseas from May 3, 1918, to death. Engagements: Offensive: Meuse-Argonne. Defensive Sectors: Gerardmer (Alsace); Grange-le-Comte (Lorraine).