Christ Axel Christiansen was born on 2 August 1910, the son of Magnus Christensen and Sidsel Marie Howe who had both born in Denmark.  Axel, as his family called him, was born in Niagra, North Dakota.  He had three sisters, Dagmar, Marie, and Doris. 

Axel was a common laborer who did farm and construction work in North Dakota.  He married Edith Lindquist.  While living in Larimore, North Dakot, they had two children:  Cleo (born 1 January 1932) and Charles (born 31 January 1934.)  At some point, the family moved to the San Francisco, California area where Axel got a job as a shipwright at the Mare Island Shipyards building concrete and steel ships for the US Navy.

In January 1944, he was drafted into the Army and shipped overseas in July 1944.  He was Killed-in-Action on 19 September 1944.  He was first buried at the US cemetery in Fosse, Belgium before his remains were transferred to the Henri-Chapelle American Cemetery.

The information above was given by his daughter Cleo to Christian Lonneux, who shared it with AOMDA Belgium.