Paul John Soberg

World War I
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Fallen

County:
Grand Forks

Date of Loss:

Branch of Service:
Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent:
Company E, 38th Infantry

Circumstances:

Killed in action on Oct. 12, 1918.

Buried, Grave 30, Row 7, Block C, 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 3028 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Biography:

Registered Grand Forks county. Born, Lakeville, Minn., Sept. 13, 1894, of (nationality of parents not given). Occupation - laborer. Inducted at Grand Forks on Sept. 22, 1917. Served in Company M, 352nd Infantry, to Nov. 29, 1917; Company L, 347th Infantry, to March 1, 1918; Headquarters Company, 347th Infantry, to June 10, 1918; June Automatic Replacement Draft, to July 8, 1918; Company M, 163rd Infantry, to July 24, 1918; Company E, 38th Infantry, to death. Overseas from June 20, 1918, to death. Engagements: Defensive: Champagne-Marne. Offensives: Aisne-Marne; St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne. Defensive Sector: Vesle (Champagne).