World War I
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Fallen
Fallen
Badger, MN
County:
Griggs
Date of Loss:
Branch of Service:
Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent:
Company C, 2nd Engineers
Circumstances:
Died at Angus, Germany, on Feb. 26, 1919.
Buried, Badger, Roseau county, Minn.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND under Ward county.
Information found in Volume 2, page 1278 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
Biography:
Registered Griggs county. Born, Hanska, Minn., Oct. 6, 1893, of Norwegian parents. Occupation - laborer. Inducted at Cooperstown on Feb. 23, 1918. Served in Company D, 319th Engineers, to March, 1918; Company G, 1st Replacement Regiment, Engineers, to May 3, 1918; Company B, 116th Engineers, to July 6, 1918; Company C, 2nd Engineers, to death. Overseas from May 10, 1918, to death. Engagements: Offensives: Aisne-Marne; St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne. Defensive Sectors: Marbache and Limey (Lorraine); Chateau-Thierry (Ile-de-France).