Otto Leysring

World War I
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Fallen

Windsor, ND

County:
Stutsman

Date of Loss:

Branch of Service:
Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent:
Company L, 137th Infantry

Circumstances:

Killed in action on Sept. 28, 1918, at Argonne Forest.

Buried, Grave 37, Row 30, 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 3, page 1890 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Biography:

Registered Stutsman county. Born, Windsor, N. Dak., April 14, 1893, of German parents. Occupation - farmer. Inducted at Jamestown on April 24, 1918. Sent to Camp Dodge, Iowa. Served in Company G, 2nd Battalion, 163rd Depot Brigade, to April 26, 1918; Company L, 137th Infantry, to death. Overseas from May 3, 1918, to death. Engagements: Offensive: Meuse-Argonne. Defensive Sectors: Gerardmer (Alsace); Grange-le-Comte (Lorraine).