World War I
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              Fallen
          
  
      
      
  		  			Fallen
          Faribault, ND
      County:
            
Renville
      Date of Loss:
            
      
Branch of Service: 
            
    		                  Army
      Rank:
            
Wagoner
      
            Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent:
            
12th Machine Gun Battalion
      
          Circumstances:
            
Died of broncho pneumonia, on Oct. 23, 1918.
Buried, Grave 12, Row 3, Block D, 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 3136 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
Biography:
            
Registered Renville county. Born, Faribault, Minn., Feb. 23, 1896, of (nationality of parents not given). Occupation - farmer. Enlisted at Renville on March 16, 1918. Served in Company C, 58th Infantry, to Sept. 19, 1918; 12th Machine Gun Battalion, to death. Grades: Private 1st Class, May 21, 1918; Corporal, Aug. 26, 1918; Wagoner, Sept. 26, 1918. Overseas from May 7, 1918, to death. Engagements: Offensives: Aisne-Marne; St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne. Defensive Sectors: Toulon (Lorraine); Vesle (Champagne).