Alfred A. Olson

World War I
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Fallen

Hatton, ND

County:
Steele

Date of Loss:

Branch of Service:
Army

Rank:
Pvt.1st Class

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent:
Company E, 39th Infantry

Circumstances:

Killed in action, on Sept. 29, 1918.

Buried in Grave 34, Row 33, Block C, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Information found in Volume 3, page 2401 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Biography:

Registered Steele county. Born, Hatton, N. Dak., April 3, 1894, of Norwegian parents. Occupation - farmer. Inducted at Sherbrooke on Sept. 21, 1917. Sent to Camp Dodge, Iowa. Served in Company K, 352nd Infantry, to Nov. 28, 1917; Company G, 347th Infantry, to March 9, 1918; Company E, 39th Infantry, to death. Grade: Private 1st Class, Sept. 16, 1918. Overseas from May 10, 1918, to death. Engagements: Offensives: Aisne-Marne; St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne. Defensive Sectors: Toulon and Verdun-Fromereville (Lorraine); Vesle (Champagne)/