John Florhaug

World War I
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Fallen

Kensal, ND

County:
Foster

Date of Loss:

Branch of Service:
Army

Rank:
Pvt.

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent:
Company C, 147th Machine Gun Battalion

Circumstances:

Killed in action, at Meuse-Argonne, on Oct. 4, 1918.

Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on Oct. 10, 1921, and buried at Kensal, N. Dak.

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

Information found in Volume 2, page 940 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Biography:

Registered Foster county. Born, Nordre Osterdal, Norway, Aug. 6, 1893. Naturalized citizen. Occupation - farmer. Enlisted in Company H, 2nd Infantry, North Dakota National Guard, at Harvey, on July 20, 1917. Served in Company H, 2nd Infantry, North Dakota National Guard (Company C, 147th Machine Gun Battalion), to June 11, 1918; Machine Gun Company, 28th Infantry, to death. Overseas from Dec. 13, 1917, to death. Wounded, slightly, Aug. 21, 1918. Engagements: Offensives: Aisne-Marne; St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne. Defensive: Montdidier-Noyon. Defensive Sectors: Cantigny (Picardy); Saizerais and Ansauville (Lorraine).