State Heroes

Lt. Col. Gilbert Collins Grafton
South Fargo, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: US Army Air Service School
Date of Loss: February 05, 1919 / Age: 58
Died at Camp Hospital No. 24, AEF, on Feb. 5, 1919.
Buried, Grave 6, Row 9. Block B, St. Mihiel American Cemetery, Thiaucourt, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

Staff Sergeant Zenophile L. Grandbois
World War II
Branch of Service: Army
Date of Loss: September 18, 1944 / Age: 23
Killed in action in Italy

Cpl. Oscar E. Granlund
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: July 20, 1918 / Age: 22
Killed in action on July 20, 1918.
Buried, Grave 6, Row 6, Block D, Oise-Aisne American Cemetery, Seringes-et-Nesles, Aisne, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

Mechanic John A. Granlund
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: July 22, 1918 / Age: 25
Killed in action on July 22, 1918.
Buried, Grave 1, Row 36, Block D, Oise-Aisne American Cemetery, Seringes-et-Nesles, Aisne, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

Pvt. Albert Grass
Cannon Ball, ND
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: July 18, 1918 / Age: 22
Killed in action at Soissons-Paris Road, July 18, 1918. His company was entrenched along the Paris, Soissons Road south of the Chemin de Dames and he volunteered to get some water for his buddies.

2nd Lieutenant Arvid J. Grasvik
World War II
Branch of Service: Army
Date of Loss: October 26, 1942 / Age: 26
Killed in action in Guadalcanal, Solomon Islands

Pvt.1st Class William John Gravell
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 47th Infantry Regiment, 4th Division
Date of Loss: August 08, 1918 / Age: 28
Died on Aug. 8, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Buried, Grave 13, Row 16, Block A, Oise-Aisne American Cemetery, Seringes-et-Nesles, Aisne, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Freeman L. Gravley
Sargent, MNWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company L, 40th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 03, 1918 / Age: 22
Died of broncho pneumonia on Oct. 3, 1918, at Camp Custer, Mich.
Buried at Sargent, Minn.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

Cpl. Royal Osmer Gray
Lakota, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 47th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 30, 1918 / Age: 22
Killed in action on Sept. 30, 1918.
Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on Sept. 19, 1921, and buried at Lakota, N. Dak.

2nd Lieutenant Ernest L. Gray
World War II
Branch of Service: Army
Date of Loss: June 19, 1944 / Age: 27
Killed in action in France

Staff Sergeant George A. Gray
World War II
Branch of Service: Army
Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent: 735th AAF Bomber Squadron
Date of Loss: February 06, 1944 / Age: 19
Killed in action in the English Channel

Major Virgil Raymond Greany
Rugby, ND
Vietnam
Branch of Service: Army
Date of Loss: September 25, 1964 / Age: 33
In Republic of Vietnam (South Vietnam) Quang Tin province, hostile, ground casualty, explosive device.

Seaman 2c Wallace E. Green
Cartwright, NDWorld War II
Branch of Service: Navy
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: United States Naval Reserve
Date of Loss: June 28, 1942 / Age: 25
Died while on board the SS Tillie Lykes, an American steam merchant, when it was torpedoed by a German submarine about 100 miles south of the Dominican Republic. His body was lost at sea and was not recovered.

Pvt. Kenneth W. Green
Marmon, NDWounded in Action.

Pvt. John Wesley Green
Dawson, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 26
Killed in action in Meuse-Argonne offensive, Oct. 4, 1918.
Buried in Grave 6, Row 34, Block A, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.