John August Jacobsen

Birth: 2/9/1889, Tonsberg, Jarlsberg, Norway. Home state listed as Washington. 

Address: 2328 23rd St., Seattle, WA

Demographics: age 28 at draft registration; Caucasian; single; no children; citizenship status alien; occupation Marine Fireman at Alaska Steamship Co., Seattle, WA; naturalized at age 29 at Tacoma, WA

Appearance: Height medium, Build medium, Eyes blue, Hair brown

Draft Date/Enlistment Date/Rank: draft date 6/5/1917; enlistment date not known; rank Private 

Service Number: 2256303

Deployment: 7/6/1918 from New York aboard HMT Scotian

Action: Company L, 361st Infantry Regiment, 91st Division

Death: October 10, 1918 at age 29; Killed in Action

Burial: 10/13/1918 buried locally in France; remains disinterred and reburied on 6/9/1919 and again on 3/25/1922. Final and permanent resting place Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery and Memorial, Lorraine, France; Plot A Row 11 Grave 20

Next of Kin: Mrs. Annie Conrod, sister, 95 1/2 Carlyon Rd., Cleveland, OH (address also listed as 1671 Carlyon Rd., E. Cleveland, OH)

Additional Information: World War I burial card states: "Ole S. Jacobsen, Klop Station P.O. pr. Tonsberg, Norway. (Father?)"