WWI · Battle Death Record
Nels Anderson
Private, U.S. Army · Minnesota
Personnel File — Core Information
- Name
- Nels Anderson
- Entered the Service From
- Minnesota
- Rank
- Private
- Service
- U.S. Army
- Unit / Regiment
- Battery E, 331st Field Artillery Regiment, 86th Division
- War
- WWI
- Date of Death
- September 27, 1918
- Burial / Memorial
- Brookwood American Cemetery and Memorial, Brookwood, England
- Grave
- Block B, Row 2, Grave 14
Their story
Nels Anderson, a Norwegian emigrant, served as a field artilleryman in Battery E, 331st Field Artillery Regiment, 86th Division. He died of acute cardiac failure on September 27, 1918, while at sea aboard a troop transport en route to Liverpool, England. Originally interred at Everton Cemetery in Liverpool, he was reinterred at Brookwood American Cemetery on May 23, 1922.
Compiled from American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) and National Archives (NARA) records and public sources.
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