WWI Veteran * Big Stone County

John B. Martinson

Entered Service: May, 1918.

Branch of Service: Army - Company A. 308th Infantry, 77th Division.

Trained at Camp Lewis, Washington.

Overseas: August 25, 1918

Theatre of Operation: European.

Engagements:  Meuse-Argonne. 

Returned to U.S.: April 28, 1919.

Discharged: May 18, 1919 at Camp Dodge, Iowa.

Rank: Private First Class.

Total Months Served: Twelve. 

In lost battalion without food three days and one of the few survivors.