State Heroes
World War I (WWI)
1918
Maurice Verschelde
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Ambulance Company No. 350, 313th Sanitary Train
Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 27
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 10, 1918.
Buried, Grave 25, Row 25, Block G, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Wagoner Ray Earl Vessey
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters Company, 339th Machine Gun Battalion
Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 26
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 10, 1918.
Buried, Grave 29, Row 23, Block E, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Willard Edwin Vestre
Drayton, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Marines
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 49th Company, 5th Regiment
Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 21
Killed in action on Oct. 4, 1918.
Burial, Grave 164, Section 86, Plot 4, Argonne American Cemetery No. 1232. Reinterred, Drayton Cemetery, Drayton, N. Dak.
1918
Aslak Vettrus
Rolette, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 34th Company, 161st Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 06, 1918 / Age: 24
Died of pneumonia at Camp Grant, Ill., on Oct. 6, 1918.
Buried, Rolette, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Louis John Volesky
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 19th Company, 2nd Group, Motor Truck Detachment, Camp Hancock, Ga.
Date of Loss: October 28, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of influenza on Oct. 28, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 4, page 3351 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Norman Andreas Vorland
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 338th Machine Gun Battalion
Date of Loss: December 02, 1918 / Age: 28
Died of pneumonia, at Toul, France, on Dec. 2, 1918.
Buried, Bommel, Norway.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Martin Vos
Muskegon, MI
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 23rd Infantry
Date of Loss: November 03, 1918 / Age: 24
Killed in action on Nov. 3, 1918.
Buried, Grave 17, Row 16, Block C, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Harry Wilber Waddle
Curtis, OK
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 23rd Infantry
Date of Loss: October 06, 1918 / Age: 23
Killed in action on Oct. 6, 1918.
Buried, Grave 28, Row 30, Block E, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Frederick Calvin Wagner
Rolla, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Marines
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 73rd Company, 6th Regiment
Date of Loss: July 19, 1918 / Age: 21
Killed in action, July 19, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 4, page 3362 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Pvt.1st Class Alfred Bernhart Walby
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company M, 28th Infantry
Date of Loss: July 21, 1918 / Age: 26
Killed in action, on July 21, 1918.
Buried, Grave 26, Row 29, Block C, Oise-Aisne American Cemetery, Seringes-et-Nesles, Aisne, France.
Name NOT included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt.1st Class Preston Vincent Wall
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 164th Ambulance Company, 116th Sanitary Train
Date of Loss: May 16, 1918 / Age: 19
Killed in action on May 16, 1918.
Buried in France. Reburied, Grave 1332, Arlington National Cemetery, Va.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt.1st Class Harley Edgar Wallace
Tomah, WI
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company K, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 09, 1918 / Age: 19
Killed in Meuse-Argonne on Oct. 9, 1918.
Buried, Tomah, Wis.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND under Golden Valley county.
1918
Thomas John Wallace
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company F, 347th Infantry
Date of Loss: January 06, 1918 / Age: 22
Died of parenchymatous nephritis on Jan. 6, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
1st Lt. Victor Bryon Wallin
Washburn, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 356th Infantry
Date of Loss: November 11, 1918 / Age: 22
Killed in action at Commune of Pouilly, Meuse, France, on Nov. 11, 1918.
Buried at Washburn, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Albert W. Wallner
New Ulm, MN
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 19
Killed in action on Oct. 10, 1918.
Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on Aug. 1, 1921, and buried in Catholic Cemetery, New Ulm, Minn.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt. Ambrose John Walsh
Jamestown, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: July 19, 1918 / Age: 20
Killed in action in the battle of Chateau-Thierry, France, on July 19, 1918.
Buried, Grave 17, Row 4, Block D, Oise-Aisne American Cemetery, Seringes-et-Nesles, Aisne, France.