BIOGRAPHIES:   Lt. Samuel K. NORD, Rice Lake, Barron County, WI

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Lieut. Samuel Kornelius Nord was born at Rice Lake, Jan. 21, 1892,
graduated from the Rice Lake High School, and attended the University of
Wisconsin for three semesters. At the entry of the United States into the
World War, he offered his services, and was sent to training camp at Fort
Sheridan, Ill. He was commissioned as second lieutenant in August, 1917,
and was assigned to duty at Camp Custer, from Sept. 1, 1917, to July 12,
1918. He sailed from Camp Mills, New York, July 21, 1918, with Co. E, 338th
Infantry, and after his arrival in France was assigned to Co. K, 128th
Infantry, 32nd Division. He was under continuous fire with that company on
the Meuse-Argonne front for forty days, and on Nov. 3, 1918, was promoted
to first lieutenant. On the morning of Nov. 10, he was sent out in command
of a force to locate and attack the Germans. He found the enemy and drove
them back eight miles. Then the Germans started a counter attack, and met
with fierce resistance. Expected support had failed to follow the attacking
Americans, and overwhelmed by superior numbers, all the officers of the
Third Battalion were wiped out. The last surviving officer, Lieutenant
Nord, made a desperate rally of the battalion against the 192nd German
Division, at the Dun sur Meuse bridgehead, northeast of the Village of
Vilosnes. He fell, pierced by three bullets from a machine gun, one through
the stomach, one through the abdomen and one through the right leg. He was
picked up by the stretcher bearers, but bereft of officers the battalion
gradually yielded ground, and the bearers did not get their dying commander
from the field. He said to them: "Boys! Drop me and save yourselves!" These
were his last words. They left him on the field of his glory and he thus
passed from mortal ken. William Shultz, who conveyed the story of his end
to his parents, says of him: "Lieutenant Nord was a good officer, and was
liked by all the men."

--Taken from: History of Barron Co., Wisconsin, H. C. Cooper, Jr., & Co.,
1922, pp. 189-190.