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My great uncle George Nelson Bjork,
from Polson, Montana, located in Flathead County was a U.S. Army soldier
in the 6th Battalion 20th Engineers, Company F. He was killed February
5th, 1918 due to Enemy Action in the North Channel Sea. The S.S.
Tuscania, a troopship carrying over two thousand U.S. Army troops to
Europe was struck by a German U-boat torpedo. George escaped the sinking
ship by lifeboat, but like many of the lifeboats that evening, the sea
carried them to the hostile rocky shoreline of the Island of Islay. It
was here that many lifeboats struck the rocks with such force as to rip
apart the lifeboats into useless kindling. The waves hurdling the men
into the sharp unmitigated towering boulders that laid before them. It
was here that most men whom escaped by lifeboat met their doom.
LINDA DENT
May 20, 2004 |
George Nelson
Bjork - Polson, Flathead County, Montana
Army Rank:
Private (1918).
Assigned Unit:
6th Bn., 20th Engineers, Co. F
Army Serial Number:
Inducted:
Army Discharge:
Eternal Watch
Remarks:
Overseas Jan. 24, 1918 – KIA
Torpedoed on the Transport Tuscania Feb. 5, 1918
First name spelled Georg in
early records.
Address: Dalsland, Sweden
(1906)
Address: Polson, Montana
(1917)
Immigrated at age 15 with
brother Anton to America - SS Caronia
Georges arrival date in
America: May 3, 1907.
Victor came to America on
April 10, 1905 - SS Caronia
Georges sister Helga and his
mother Sofia came to America in 1909.
Fathers Name:
August Nelson Bjork
(d.
1908 Oslo, Norway)
Mothers Name:
Sofia F. Pettersdotter
(b.
April 30, 1851 Dalsland, Sweden)
(d. May 1, 1937 Polson, Lake Co., Montana)
Brothers:
Victor, Anton, and Johan (John) Bjork
Victor - next of kin, lived in St. Helena, Oregon.
Sisters:
Hilda Bjork
Civilian Occupation:
Farmer
Born:
June 13, 1892 Beckefors, Sweden (North)
Died:
Feb. 5, 1918 KIA coast of Scotland
Buried in Kilnaughton Cemetery Feb. 9, 1918
Body exhumed and relocated to America in 1930
Cemetery:
Arlington National Cemetery
Date of Internment:
Oct. 29, 1930
Plot:
Section 18 Site 917
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