World War I
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Fallen

County:
Walsh

Date of Loss:

Branch of Service:
Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent:
Company I, 139th Infantry

Circumstances:

Killed in action on Sept. 27, 1918.

Buried, Grave 12, Row 40, Block B, 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 2194 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Biography:

Registered Walsh county. Born, Shawnee, N. Dak., April 11, 1894, of Norwegian parents. Occupation - grainbuyer. Inducted at Grand Forks on March 30, 1918. Sent to Camp Dodge, Iowa. Served in Company H, 2nd Battalion, 163rd Depot Brigade, to April 20, 1918; Company I, 139th Infantry, to death. Overseas from May 3, 1918, to death. Engagements: Offensive: Meuse-Argonne. Defensive Sectors: Gerardmer (Alsace); Grange-le-Comte (Lorraine).