Otto Snyder

World War I
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Fallen

Hartsgrove, OH

County:
Ramsey

Date of Loss:

Branch of Service:
Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent:
Company C, 139th Infantry

Circumstances:

Killed in action on Sept. 30, 1918.

Buried, Grave 9, Row 23, Block G, 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 3028 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Biography:

Registered Ramsey county. Born, Hartsgrove, Ohio, Nov. 5, 1890, of (nationality of parents not given). Occupation - farmer. Inducted at Devils Lake on March 28, 1918. Sent to Camp Dodge, Iowa. Served in Company R, 5th Battalion, 163rd Depot Brigade, to April 20, 1918; Company H, Provisional Battalion, 138th Infantry, to June 20, 1918; Company C, 139th Infantry, to death. Overseas from May 3, 1918, to death. Engagements: Offensive: Meuse-Argonne. Defensive Sectors: Gerardmer (Alsace); Grange-le-Comte (Lorraine).