James Lester Cole

World War I
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Fallen

Kenmare, ND

County:
Ward

Date of Loss:

Branch of Service:
Army

Rank:
2nd Lt.

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent:
Company M, 41st Infantry

Circumstances:

Died of pneumonia, at Base Hospital, Fort Riley, Kans., on Dec. 12, 1918.

Buried at Kenmare, N. Dak.

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

Information found in Volume 1, page 587 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Biography:

Registered Ward county. Born, Minot, N. Dak., Jan. 11, 1892, of Canadian-American parents. Occupation - clerk. Enrolled in the Second Officers Training Camp at Fort Snelling, Minn., on Aug. 27, 1917. Commissioned and called into active service as a 2nd Lieutenant, on Nov. 27, 1917. Assigned to Company M, 41st Infantry, to death.