Scandinavian Veterans Reunion

Including 15th Wisconsin Veterans
The Scandinavian Regiment

Photo of 15th Wisconsin veterans at the 1917 reunion at Camp Randall.  Used with permission of State Historical Society of Wisconsin.

Image WHi (X3) 14440, State Historical Society of Wisconsin
Picture shown above has been electronically enhanced by Deep Vee Productions

This photo was taken at the reunion on September 12, 1917, under the Memorial Arch at Camp Randall in the City of Madison, Dane County, State of Wisconsin.  The identifications are drawn from photos in the article listed below. From left to right, the 15th Wisconsin veterans in the photo and their places of residence in 1917 are as follows.

02. Anon Kjelsvig, Company E, of Blanchardville, Wisconsin (white beard)
04. Nils J. Gilbert, Companies A and F, of Eleva, Wisconsin (hands in pockets)
06. S. A. Anderson, Company B, of Dawson, Minnesota (double breasted coat)
08. Otto Steen, Company K, of Wahoo, Nebraska (light colored hat)
09. A. A. Tofte, aka Albert A. Nelson, Company B, of Pine City, Minnesota (grey fedora in second row)
10. Joseph Mathisen, Company B, of Evansville, Minnesota (to right of Steen in front row)
12. T. A. Rossing, Company E, of Decorah, Iowa (to right of Mathisen in front row)
16. Louis Rolfson, Company C, of Waterford, Wisconsin (bushy beard, second from right)

Source: Reunion of the Fifteenth Wisconsin and the Scandinavian Veteran's Association author unknown, "Familiens Magasin" (date unknown date, but believed to be shortly after the reunion).

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