WILSON JOHN LEWIS

Final Resting Place

Flanders Field American Cemetery

Primary Sentinel of Memory

American Legion Post BE 02 (Since 2014) (i)

Sentinels of Memory

Geert Mahieu (Since 2017) (i)

WILSON JOHN LEWIS

Rank

PRIVATE

Unit & Div

148th Infantry Regiment 37th Division

Service Number2084634

Entered Service From

05 Jun 1891

St. Paul, MN

United States

Died

01 Nov 1918

Tielt

Belgium

PlotA

Row1

Grave19

Biography

John Wilson was the son of Thorkel Wilson and Josephine Linstad from St. Paul MN. He had six siblings: William, Mathilda, Josephine, Torkel, Samuel and Hardis. John was married to Gladys Ethal Abett on 21 November 1917. He was severly wounded by a grenade attack and brought to Evacuation Hospital nr. 5 at Staden where he died on 1 November 1918.

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Information provided by Geert Mahieu.