Gunder G. Austad
World War I
Unit 20th Engineer Regiment
Rank Private U.S. Army
Entered Service From Minnesota
Date of Death February 5 1918
Buried Plot A Row 2 Grave 7
Victim of the sinking of the Tuscania which took 170 lives; originally buried on the Scottish coast where the bodies washed up.
The American Legion in Red Lake Falls MN is named for him.
NOTE: Various sources give different casualty numbers - some sources exceed 200 deaths.
Approximately 215 American soldiers died in the sinking of the "Tuscania."
Contributor: Islay (48898746)
World War I
Unit 20th Engineer Regiment
Rank Private U.S. Army
Entered Service From Minnesota
Date of Death February 5 1918
Buried Plot A Row 2 Grave 7
Victim of the sinking of the Tuscania which took 170 lives; originally buried on the Scottish coast where the bodies washed up.
The American Legion in Red Lake Falls MN is named for him.
NOTE: Various sources give different casualty numbers - some sources exceed 200 deaths.
Approximately 215 American soldiers died in the sinking of the "Tuscania."
Contributor: Islay (48898746)
Gunder G. Austad
World War I
Unit 20th Engineer Regiment
Rank Private U.S. Army
Entered Service From Minnesota
Date of Death February 5 1918
Buried Plot A Row 2 Grave 7
Victim of the sinking of the Tuscania which took 170 lives; originally buried on the Scottish coast where the bodies washed up.
The American Legion in Red Lake Falls MN is named for him.
NOTE: Various sources give different casualty numbers - some sources exceed 200 deaths.
Approximately 215 American soldiers died in the sinking of the "Tuscania."
Contributor: Islay (48898746)
World War I
Unit 20th Engineer Regiment
Rank Private U.S. Army
Entered Service From Minnesota
Date of Death February 5 1918
Buried Plot A Row 2 Grave 7
Victim of the sinking of the Tuscania which took 170 lives; originally buried on the Scottish coast where the bodies washed up.
The American Legion in Red Lake Falls MN is named for him.
NOTE: Various sources give different casualty numbers - some sources exceed 200 deaths.
Approximately 215 American soldiers died in the sinking of the "Tuscania."
Contributor: Islay (48898746)
Inscription
PVT 20 ENGRS
MINNESOTA
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Records on Ancestry
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1910 United States Federal Census
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U.S., Headstone and Interment Records for U.S., Military Cemeteries on Foreign Soil, 1942-1949
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Minnesota, U.S., Territorial and State Censuses, 1849-1905
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U.S., World War I Mothers' Pilgrimage, 1929
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U.S., World War I Draft Registration Cards, 1917-1918
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