World War I
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Fallen

County:
Grant

Date of Loss:

Branch of Service:
Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent:
Company K, 140th Infantry

Circumstances:

Killed in action, on Oct. 1, 1918.

Buried, Grave 1, Row 4, 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 3, page 1894 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Biography:

Registered Grant county. Born, Christiania, Norway, July 2, 1894. Citizenship, alien. Occupation - farmer. Inducted at Carcon on March 28, 1918. Sent to Camp Dodge, Iowa. Served in Company T, 5th Battalion, 163rd Depot Brigade, to April 20, 1918; Company K, 140th Infantry, to death. Overseas from May 3, 1918, to death. Engagements: Offensive: Meuse-Argonne. Defensive Sectors: Gerardmer (Alsace); Grange-le-Comte (Lorraine).