WWI Student Army Training Corps
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Fallen

County:
Grand Forks

Date of Loss:

Branch of Service:
Army

Rank:
Sergeant

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent:
Student Army Training Corps UND Grand Forks ND

Circumstances:

Died of pnuemonia while serving as a member of the Student Army Training Corps  on the UND campus in Grand Forks North Dakota during the 1918 flu pandemic. Name included on the UND S.A.T.C. website

Buried at Mount Tabor Cemetery, Atlanta, Macon County, Missouri.

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

Information found in Volume 1, page 109 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Biography:

Registrant of Grand Forks County. Born November 1, 1886 in Atlanta, Macon County Missouri to American parents. Occupation: Clerk. Inducted at Grand Forks on July 9, 1918. Sent to University of North Dakota. Served in Student Army Training Corps to death. Died at Grand Forks ND on October 29, 1918 along with 26 fellow soldiers during the Flu Pandemic.