Reinhold D. Schaefer

World War I
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Fallen

Lesterville, SD

County:
McLean

Date of Loss:

Branch of Service:
Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent:
Company G, 362nd Infantry

Circumstances:

Killed in action at Stenburg, Belgium, on Oct. 31, 1918.

Buried in Grave 6, Row 3, Block B, Flanders Field American Cemetery, Waereghem, Belgium.

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

Information found in Volume 4, page 2838 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Biography:

Registered McLean county. Born, Lesterville, S. Dak., April 24, 1895, of Russian parents. Occupation - farmer. Inducted at Washburn on May 24, 1918. Sent to Camp Lewis, Wash. Served in 14th Company, 166th Depot Brigade, to Sept. 11, 1918; Company G, 362nd Infantry, to death. Overseas from July 6, 1918, to death. Engagements: Offensives: Meuse-Argonne; Ypres-Lys. Defensive Sector: Aubreville (Lorraine).