World War I
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Fallen

County:
Wells

Date of Loss:

Branch of Service:
Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent:
Company B, 7th Machine Gun Battalion

Circumstances:

Killed in action on Oct. 20, 1918.

Buried in Grave 31, Row 16, Block C, 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 2457 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Biography:

Registered Wells county. Born, Rosiery, Russia, May 8, 1896. Citizenship, alien. Occupation - laborer. Enlisted in Company H, 2nd Infantry, North Dakota National Guard, at Harvey, on July 20, 1917. Served in Company H, 2nd Infantry, North Dakota National Guard (Company C, 147th Machine Gun Battalion), to June 6, 1918; Company B, 7th Machine Gun Battalion, to death. Overseas from Dec. 13, 1917, to death. Engagements: Defensive: Champagne-Marne. Offensives: Aisne-Marne; St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne. Defensive Sector: Chateau-Thierry (Champagne).