World War I
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Fallen
Fallen
Niobrara, NE
County:
Mercer
Date of Loss:
Branch of Service:
Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent:
Battery A, 13th Field Artillery
Circumstances:
Died on Nov. 1, 1918, to wounds received in action.
Buried, Grave 19, Row 5, Block C, 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 1805 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
Biography:
Registered Mercer county. Born, Niobrara, Nebr., Aug. 4, 1895, of (nationality of parents not given). Occupation - farmer. Inducted at Stanton on Sept. 18, 1917. Served in Battery F, 338th Field Artillery, to Nov. 27, 1917; Battery B, 336th Field Artillery, to June 12, 1918; June Replacement Draft, Camp Pike, Ark., to (date not given); Supply Company, Field Artillery Replacement Regiment, to July 12, 1918; Battery A, 13th Field Artillery, to death. Overseas from June 20, 1918, to death. Engagements: Offensives: Aisne-Marne; St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne. Defensive Sectors: Vesle (Champagne); Rupt (Lorraine).