World War I
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Fallen

County:
Grand Forks

Date of Loss:

Branch of Service:
Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent:
Company D, 58th Infantry

Circumstances:

Killed in action on Sept. 28, 1918.

Buried in Grave 12, Row 39, Block G, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Information found in Volume 2, page 1717 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Biography:

Registered Grand Forks county. Born, Hatton, D. T., July 5, 1888, of Norwegian-American parents. Occupation - farmer. Inducted at Grand Forks on Sept. 22, 1917. Sent to Camp Dodge, Iowa. Served in Company K, 352nd Infantry, to Nov. 28, 1917; Company M, 348th Infantry, to April 12, 1918; Company D, 58th Infantry, to death. Overseas from May 7, 1918, to death. Engagements: Offensives: Aisne-Marne; St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne. Defensive Sectors: Toulon and Vesle (Champagne).