World War I
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Fallen

Petersburg, WI

County:
Slope

Date of Loss:

Branch of Service:
Army

Rank:
Cpl.

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent:
327th Infantry Regiment, 82nd Division

Circumstances:

Killed in action, on Oct. 11, 1918.

Buried in Grave 16, Row 8, Block B, 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 1, page 190 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Biography:

Registered Slope county. Born, Petersburg, Wis., March 14, 1896, of American parents. Occupation - farmer. Inducted at Amidon on Sept. 18, 1917. Sent to Camp Dodge, Iowa. Served in Battery E, 338th Field Artillery, to April 1, 1918; Company I, 327th Infantry, to death. Grade: Corporal, Aug. 25, 1918. Overseas from April 29, 1918, to death. Engagements: Offensives: St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne. Defensive Sectors: Lucey and Marbache (Lorraine).