Arthur Selmer Lee

World War I
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Fallen

Ashby, MN

County:
Mountrail

Date of Loss:

Branch of Service:
Army

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

Circumstances:

Killed in action, Argonne Woods, Sept. 29, 1918.

Grave unlocated.

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

Information found in Volume 3, page 1857 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Biography:

Registered Mountrail county. Born, Ashby, Minn., Aug. 10, 1892, of Norwegian-American parents. Occupation - farmer. Inducted at Stanley on March 29, 1918. Sent to Camp Dodge, Iowa. Served in Company C, 1st Battalion, 163rd Depot Brigade, to April 22, 1918; Company H, 139th Infantry, to death. Overseas from May 3, 1918, to death. Engagements: Offensive: Meuse-Argonne. Defensive Sectors: Gerardmer (Alsace); Grange-le-Comte (Lorraine).