World War I
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Fallen
Fallen
County:
Wells
Date of Loss:
Branch of Service:
Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent:
Company A, 338th Machine Gun Battalion
Circumstances:
Died of pneumonia, at Toul, France, on Dec. 2, 1918.
Buried, Bommel, Norway.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 4, page 3354 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
Biography:
Registered Wells county. Born, Bommel, Norway, Feb. 21, 1890. Citizenship, alien. Occupation - mechanic. Inducted at Fessenden on June 25, 1918. Sent to Camp Dodge, Iowa. Served in Company No. 9, 3rd Battalion, 163rd Depot Brigade, to July 30, 1918; Company A, 338th Machine Gun Battalion, to death. Overseas from Aug. 15, 1918, to death. Engagement: Defensive Sector: Center (Alsace).