State Heroes

Lt. Col. Gilbert Collins Grafton

World 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

World 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.

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

Cpl. Royal Osmer Gray

World 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.

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

World 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

Wounded in Action.

Pvt. John Wesley Green

World 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.