WWI Student Army Training Corps
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Fallen

County:
Golden Valley

Date of Loss:

Branch of Service:
Army

Rank:
Private

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

Circumstances:

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

Buried at Mandan Union Cemetery, Morton County North Dakota.

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

Information found in Volume 2, page 1047 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Biography:

Registered in Golden Valley County. Born Mandan, Morton County, North Dakota on February 2, 1897 of English-American parents Henry and Rose (Kennedy) Gilbert . Resided Sentinel Butte, Golden Valley County, North Dakota. Occupation: Telegraph Operator. Inducted at Beach North Dakota on September 1, 1918 sent to University of North Dakota. Served in Students Army Training Corps until death. Died at Grand Forks ND on October 21, 1918 along with 26 fellow soldiers during the Flu Pandemic.