ISOB Ernest Johnson -128th Infantry Regiment
Details:
In the family plot outside the church. Isolated Burial
An inscribed upright dark stone family gravestone.
The Isolated Burial (ISOB) of Corporal Ernest Johnson, also known as Ernst H. Jonsson. Corporal Johnson was born in Sweden and immigrated to the US in Michigan. He served in Company H, 128th Infantry Regiment of the 32nd Infantry Division known by the enemy as "Les Terribles". Corporal Johnson dies of wounds received in action on September 2, 1918 in France. He was later transferred and buried in his hometown of Örsjö, Sweden.
Sources:
www.32nd-division.org
www.doughboy.org
Monument Text:
Korpralen
ERNST JONSSON
No 1 Örsjö
fodd 22/1/1893
dod in Frankrike 2/9/1918
Translation:
Corporal
Ernst Jonsson
From Örsjö
Born Jan 22, 1893
Died in France Sept 2, 1918
