Martin A. Jacobson

World War I
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Fallen

Litchville, ND

County:
Barnes

Date of Loss:

Branch of Service:
Army

Rank:
Pvt.

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent:
Company B, 164th Infantry

Circumstances:

Killed in action, on July 18, 1918.

Buried, Grave 16, Row 23, Block C, Oise-Aisne American Cemetery, Serings-et-Nesles, Aisne, France.

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

Information found in Volume 2, page 1491 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Biography:

Not a registrant, over age. Born, Drag, Norway, May, 1886. Citizenship, (not given). Occupation - unknown. Enlisted in Company B, 1st Infantry, North Dakota National Guard, at Fargo, on July 2, 1917. Called into federal service, World War, on July 15, 1917. Served in Company B, 1st Infantry, North Dakota National Guard (Company B, 164th Infantry), to Jan. 9, 1918; Company C, 18th Infantry, to death. Grades: Cook, Sept. 27, 1917; relieved as Cook, Jan. 8, 1918; Cook, Jan. 8, 1918; Private, April 11, 1918. Overseas from Dec. 15, 1917, to death. Engagements: Defensive: Montdidier-Noyon. Offensive: Aisne-Marne. Defensive Sectors: Ansauville (Lorraine); Cantigny (Picardy).