Martin Olof Ruud

World War I
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Fallen

County:
Cass

Date of Loss:

Branch of Service:
Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent:
Company B, 343rd Machine Gun Battalion

Circumstances:

Killed in action on Nov. 1, 1918.

Buried, Grave 18, Row 41, Block D, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Information found in Volume 4, page 2793 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Biography:

Registered Cass county. Born, Christiania, Norway, Feb. 25, 1887. Declarant citizen. Occupation - tailor. Inducted at Fargo on April 28, 1918. Served in Headquarters Company, 338th Field Artillery, to May 15, 1918; Company B, 343rd Machine Gun Battalion, to death. Overseas from June 20, 1918, to death. Engagements: Offensives: St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne. Defensive Sectors: Puvenelle and Villers-en-Haye (Lorraine).