Peter Martin Nielsen

(Peter) Martin Nielsen was born on October 27, 1886 in Gjsing, Denmark. He immigrated to the United States on March 12, 1914 to Lake Wilson, MN from Copenhagen, Denmark. He was naturalized June 29, 1918 at Minneapolis, Minnesota. Martin's father was Anders Nielsen, also born in Denmark. In October of 1919, he applied for a passport to travel back to Denmark to visit his mother who was 70 years old and dying.

The War in Europe also caught up to him and he enlisted in the Army on May 15, 1918 and served under the Casual Detachment #826, Demobilization Group where he attained the rank of Private First Class. He was discharged on June 20, 1919.

Martin and his wife Matilda Hendrickson were married on January 15th, 1927. They operated a locker and meat market in White from 1940-1950. Peter was interred in Fairview Cemetery, White, South Dakota after his death on June 1, 1968

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Casual companies or casual detachments were generally holding units which fulfilled no purpose other than to assign soldiers who were being deployed to theaters for further assignment to specific operational units, or to which soldiers were assigned to while they were in the process of being demobilized and sent back to America, often to be discharged shortly after arriving in the States if they were draftees rather than career soldiers.

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