World War I
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Fallen

County:
Mountrail

Date of Loss:

Branch of Service:
Army

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

Circumstances:

Killed in action on Sept. 29, 1918.

Buried in Grave 31, Row 40, 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 4, page 3216 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Biography:

Registered Mountrail county. Born, Norway, Oct. 31, 1887. Naturalized citizen. 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 C, 139th Infantry, to death. Overseas from May 3, 1918, to death. Engagements: Offensive: Meuse-Argonne. Defensive Sectors: Gerardmer (Alsace); Grange-le-Comte (Lorraine).