1921 Duluth & St Louis County MN, Van Brunt.pdf - Garon.us

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ertson, now of 2516 West Twelfth Street, Duluth. He also was a
married man at the time of entering the army, and was employed at
the Great Northern Power Plant. Enlisted at Duluth on June 28,
1918, he left that day for Camp Grant, and was there assigned to
Company I, Four Hundred and Thirty-first Infantry. He was transferred
in August to Company D of Three Hundred and Tenth Infantry
and left for Port of Embarkation early in September. After a
short stay at Camp Upton, New York, he embarked at New York,
September 8th, and arrived in France on September 25th. He was
in action on October 7th, at Bois de Loges, Argonne Forest, and
from that time until he was wounded on October 18th. he was almost
continuously in action. He died in hospital in France on November
5, 1918.
William L. Robideau before the war lived at 123 Astor Street,
Duluth.
Yalmer Leonard Saari, of Virginia and Duluth, was born October
27, 1895, at Calumet, Houghton County, Michigan. His widow,
Hulda Saari now lives at 540 West Fourth Street. Duluth. Saari
reported for enlistment on April 28, 1918, and at Camp Dodge. Iowa,
to which cantonment he was sent, he was assigned to Company D,
Three Hundred and Fifty-eighth Infantry. Two months later he
was on the way overseas; and on September 26th, 1918, he was killed
by machine gun fire, in an attack on the Hindenburg Line in France.
Piotre Sagotowski, whose papers show that he formerly had
Duluth residence, was a Russian, his father, Piotre, at Wytxamers,
St. Kawno, Russia.
Christ O. Sandwich, who was a sawyer in the mill of J. P. Pfeiffer,
Iverson, Minnesota, and lived in Duluth, where his widow still lives,
was a Norwegian by birth, born in Gubbiansdalen. Norway, December
15, 1894. He was called into service on June 28, 1918, at Carlton,
Minnesota, and sent to Camp Grant, Illinois, where he was assigned
to the Three Hundred and Forty-first Infantry, a regiment of the
Eighty-sixth Division: Soon afterwards he was transferred to Company
D, Three Hundred and Eighth Machine Gun Battalion, Seventy-eighth
Division. In August he left for an eastern camp, preparatory
to going overseas and left Camp Upton, New York, September
8th, embarking then. He received promotion to the grade of corporal
during the voyage. He first went into action at Verdun on
October 12, 1918, and was fighting on that front until the 19th, when
he received a shrapnel wound and was also gassed. The shrapnel
wounds were not serious, but the gas set up a lingering illness. Finally,
he died of tubercular meningitis, at the American Base Hospital,
Brest, France, May 29, 1919.
Thomas B. Shaughnessy lived at Morgan Park prior to enlisting.
He was born at Minneapolis, Minnesota, April 27, 1891, son
of James P. and Ellen Shaughnessy, who, now live at Morgan Park,
Duluth. Thomas B. by trade was a structural ironworker and was
with the Universal Portland Cement Company. He was a young
man of grit, and earnest patriotic purpose, as he showed when called
upon to report for military duty. He had received notice to report
at Duluth on February 26, 1918, and on that morning sprained his
ankle. But he refused to be left behind by the detachment then
departing, so he was taken to the station in an auto, and upon arrival
at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, was placed in hospital, where he
remained for ten days. Following that, he was in a detention camp
for seventeen days and was given ten days of intensive drilling, and