Carl Samuel Lund (1897 - 1919)

Born 13 Mar 1897 in Cranston, Providence, Rhode Island, United States

Died 13 Mar 1919 at age 22 in France

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Biography

Carl Samuel was born in Cranston, Rhode Island, in 1897, the son of Rev. Joseph and Sofie Wilhelmina (Klint) Lund. ^[1] He lived in Beverly, Massachusetts, in 1900,^[2] and the family removed to Somerville, Massachusetts, by 1910.^[3] He attended Forster Grammar School in Somerville, where he and his brother Roy graduated in 1910.^[4]

He married Edith May Sanford, daughter of William and Elizabeth Sanford, on March 31, 1917, in Everett, Massachusetts.^[5]

Carl enlisted in the Massachusetts National Guard, Troop D, 1st Sep. Sq., Cav., on May 24, 1917. He was deployed overseas in September 1917 with Co. B, 102nd Machine Gun Battalion, 26th Division. He was promoted to Corporal in November of 1918. Carl died of pneumonia at Dion, France, on March 13, 1919.^[6] His brother Paul Lund also died during the war. Carl is buried at the Arlington National Cemetery in Virginia.^[7]

He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross "for extraordinary heroism in action while serving with 102d Machine-Gun Battalion, 26th Division, A.E.F., near Mouilly, France, 12 September 1918. At great risk of his own life from machine-gun fire at close range, Private Lund volunteered and went to the aid of a wounded comrade, bandaged his wounds, and helped him to a place of safety." ^[8]

Sources

1. ↑ "Rhode Island Births and Christenings, 1600-1914," database, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:F83X-5LR : 10 March 2018), Carl Samuel, 13 Mar 1897
2. ↑ "United States Census, 1900," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M95B-TYG : accessed 9 April 2019), Carl S Lund in household of Joseph Lund, Beverly city Ward 5, Essex, Massachusetts, United States
3. ↑ "United States Census, 1910," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:M2VR-7V1 : accessed 9 April 2019), Carl Lund in household of Joseph Lund, Somerville Ward 5, Middlesex, Massachusetts, United States
4. ↑ Annual Report of the City of Somerville for the year 1910, p. 217
5. ↑ "Massachusetts State Vital Records, 1841-1920," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:23YY-H43 : 15 October 2017), Carl Samuel Lund and Edith May Sanford, 31 Mar 1917
6. ↑ The Boston Globe, April 19, 1919, p. 4: "Word has been received by Mrs Carl S. Lund of 120 Ferry st that her husband, Corp Carl S. Lund of Co B, 102d Machine Gun Battalion, died in France of pneumonia on March 13. Corp Lund was recently awarded the Distinguished Service Cross for bravery under fire. He was with the Yankee Division on the eve of his sailing for home and had come through the war without any wounds, but is believed to have been gassed once. With several of his comrades he had left for Paris on a few days' furlough and was taken ill on the way. He was rushed to a base hospital, but died five days later."
7. ↑ Find A Grave: Memorial #57195507 Arlington National Cemetery, Arlington, Virginia
8. ↑ Report of the Commission on Massachusetts' Part in the World War", by Eben Putnam, 1928, Vol. 2, p. 349