Cecil Claude Smith

World War I
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Fallen

Tunnel City, WI

County:
Ward

Date of Loss:

Branch of Service:
Army

Rank:
Cpl.

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent:
Company D, 164th Infantry

Circumstances:

Died of pneumonia, at Noyers, France, on Jan. 4, 1918.

Buried, Grave 27, Row 18, Block C, Oise-Aisne American Cemetery, Seringes-et-Nesles, Aisne, France.

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

Information found in Volume 4, page 2999 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

 

Biography:

Registered Ward county. Born, Tunnel City, Wis., March 25, 1892, of American parents. Occupation - barber. Enlisted in Company D, 1st Infantry, North Dakota National Guard, at Minot, on July 20, 1917. Served in Company D, 1st Infantry, North Dakota National Guard (Company D, 164th Infantry), to death. Grade: Corporal, Dec. 1, 1917. Overseas from Dec. 15, 1917, to death.