Niels Jensen

World War I
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Fallen

Luverne, ND

County:
Steele

Date of Loss:

Branch of Service:
Army

Rank:
Pvt.

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent:
137th Infantry Regiment, 35th Division

Circumstances:

Killed in action on Oct. 1, 1918.

Buried, Grave 36, Row 31, 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 2, page 1513 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Biography:

Registered Steele county. Born, Thoresoger, Denmark, Jan. 16, 1889. Declarant citizen. Occupation - farmer. Inducted at Sherbrooke on March 30, 1918. Sent to Camp Dodge, Iowa. Served in Company F, 2nd Battalion, 163rd Depot Brigade, to April 20, 1918; Company I, 137th Infantry, to death. Overseas from May 3, 1918, to death. Engagements: Offensive: Meuse-Argonne. Defensive Sectors: Gerardmer (Alsace); Grange-le-Comte (Lorraine).