Edmond Orning

WWI Student Army Training Corps
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Fallen

County:
Mountrail

Date of Loss:

Branch of Service:
Army

Rank:
Private

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent:
Student Army Training Corps UND Grand Forks ND

Circumstances:

Died while serving as a member of the Student Army Training Corps  on the UND campus in Grand Forks during the 1918 flu pandemic. Name included on the UND S.A.T.C. website

Buried at Fairview Cemetery, Hayfield, Dodge County, Minnesota.

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

Information found in Volume 3, page 2448 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Biography:

Registered in Mountrail County. Born Hayfield Minnesota on March 2, 1897 of American-Norwegian parents. Moved to ND in 1906. Resided in Stanley, Mountrail County, North Dakota. Occupation: Salesman. Inducted at Stanley, Mountrail County North Dakota on September 1, 1918 sent to University of North Dakota. Served in Students Army Training Corps until death. Died at Grand Forks ND on October 31, 1918 along with 26 fellow soldiers during the Flu Pandemic.