Howard Mayland Beck

World War I
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Fallen

Granville, ND

County:
McHenry

Date of Loss:

Branch of Service:
Army

Rank:
Pvt.1st Class

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent:
Battery B, 321st Field Artillery

Circumstances:

Killed in action on Nov. 2, 1918.

Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on Oct. 10, 1921, and Buried in Grave 3712, European Section, Arlington National Cemetery, Va.

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

Information found in Volume 1, page 210 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Biography:

Registered McHenry county. Born, Brownsdale, Minn., May 25, 1892, of German-American parents. Occupation - telegraph operator. Inducted at Towner on Sept. 18, 1917. Sent to Camp Dodge, Iowa. Served in Battery A, 338th Field Artillery, to April 1, 1918; Battery B, 321st Field Artillery, to death. Grade: Private 1st Class, Jan. 15, 1918. Overseas from May 19, 1918, to death. Engagements: Offensives: St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne. Defensive Sector: Marbache (Lorraine).