World War I
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Fallen
Fallen
Curtis, OK
County:
Ransom
Date of Loss:
Branch of Service:
Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent:
Company H, 23rd Infantry
Circumstances:
Killed in action on Oct. 6, 1918.
Buried, Grave 28, Row 30, Block E, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 4, page 3359 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
Biography:
Registered Ransom county. Born, Curtis, Okla., April 8, 1895, of (nationality of parents not given). Occupation - laborer. Inducted at Lisbon on Sept. 21, 1917. Served in Company L, 352nd Infantry, to Nov. 28, 1917; Company I, 348th Infantry, to June 11, 1918; Camp Pike June Automatic Replacement Draft, to July 27, 1918; Company H, 23rd Infantry, to death. Overseas from June 22, 1918, to death. Engagements: Offensives: St. Mihiel; Meuse-Argonne. Defensive Sectors: Limey and Marbache (Lorraine).