Howard Leland Cotton

World War I
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Fallen

Kasson, MN

County:
Stutsman

Date of Loss:

Branch of Service:
Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent:
Battery F, 339th Field Artillery

Circumstances:

Died of broncho pneumonia, on Nov. 2, 1918.

Buried in Grave 194, Row 2, Plot 13, Clermont-Ferrand, France. Remains returned to U. S. on Dec. 16, 1921, and consigned to Fred D. Cotton, Mantorville, Minn. (Place of burial not given).

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

Information found in Volume 1, page 622 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Biography:

Registered Stutsman county. Born, Kasson, Minn., March 11, 1889, of American parents. Occupation - farmer. Inducted at Jamestown, on June 27, 1918. Sent to Camp Dodge, Iowa. Served in 163rd Depot Brigade, to July 18, 1918; Battery F, 339th Field Artillery, to death. Overseas from Aug. 24, 1918, to death.