Elmer Ben Winters

WWI Student Army Training Corps
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Fallen

County:
Barnes

Date of Loss:

Branch of Service:
Army

Rank:
Private

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent:
Student Army Training Corps UND Grand Forks ND

Circumstances:

Died while serving as a member of the Student Army Training Corps  on the UND campus in Grand Forks during the 1918 flu pandemic. Name included on the UND S.A.T.C. website

Buried at Prairie View Cemetery, Barnes County, North Dakota.

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

Information found in Volume 4, page 3499 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Biography:

Registered in Barnes County. Born Duluth Minnesota on October 24, 1891 of American parents. Resided in Wimbledon, Barnes County, North Dakota. Occupation: Laborer. Inducted at Valley City, Barnes County, North Dakota on September 1, 1918 sent to University of North Dakota. Served in Students Army Training Corps until death. Died at Grand Forks ND on October 20, 1918 along with 26 fellow soldiers during the Flu Pandemic.