World War I
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Fallen

Seattle, WA

County:
Slope

Date of Loss:

Branch of Service:
Army

Rank:
Cpl.

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent:
Company L, 327th Infantry

Circumstances:

Killed in action on Oct. 12, 1918.

Remains returned to U. S. Oct. 19, 1921, and buried in Evergreen Memorial Park, Seattle, Wash.

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

Information found in Volume 2, page 1168 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Biography:

Registered Slope county. Born, Burtrum, Minn., March 8, 1894, of (nationality of parents not given). Occupation - carpenter. Inducted at Amidon on Sept. 18, 1917. Served in Battery D, 338th Field Artillery, to April 1, 1918; Company L, 327th Infantry, to death. Grades: Private 1st Class, June 23, 1918; Corporal, July 16, 1918. Overseas from April 29, 1918, to death. Engagements: Offensives: Meuse-Argonne; St. Mihiel. Defensive Sectors: Lucey and Marbache (Lorraine).