State Heroes
World War I (WWI)
1918
William W. Whalen
World War I (WWI)
Date of Loss: November 11, 1918 / Age:
Name NOT included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information NOT found in the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Mess Sergeant Don Alfred Whitmore
Drayton, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B
Regiment / Group / Brigade: 348th Infantry Regiment
Date of Loss: October 16, 1918 / Age: 28
Died of influenza on Oct. 16, 1918.
Buried in American Cemetery No. 25, in Grave No. 336, Section B, at Galence, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt.1st Class George Wieglenda
Alliance, OH
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company F, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 09, 1918 / Age: 20
Killed in action in the Meuse-Argonne offensive, on Oct. 9, 1918.
Buried in Grave 23, Row 25, Block A, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
1918
Frank E Willard
World War I (WWI)
Date of Loss: November 11, 1918 / Age:
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information NOT found in the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Forrest Eugene Williams
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 34th Company, 161st Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 02, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 2, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 4, page 3477 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
John Wesley Williams
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 307th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 16, 1918 / Age: 27
Killed in action on Oct. 16, 1918.
Buried, Grave 26, Row 15, 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
Harold E. Williams
Reynolds, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company G, Replacement Depot Battalion, Signal Corps
Date of Loss: October 08, 1918 / Age: 29
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 8, 1918.
Remains returned to U. S. on Nov. 3, 1920, and buried at Reynolds, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Willie Willprecht
Lidgerwood, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 34th Company 161st Depot
Date of Loss: October 07, 1918 / Age: 25
Died of Pneumonia on October 7, 1918 at Camp Grant Illinois.
Buried Lidgerwood, Richland County, North Dakota.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Fred Wilson
Holyoke, MA
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company K, 116th Engineers
Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 32
Died of influenza on Oct. 4, 1918.
Buried, Grave 6, Row 30, Block B, Oise-Aisne American Cemetery, Seringes-et-Nesles, Aisne, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
John Henry Wilson
Kenmare, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Coast Artillery Corps, 5th Recruit Company
Date of Loss: March 29, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of pneumonia at Fort Logan, Colo., on March 29, 1918.
Buried, Kenmare, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
John A. Winden
Northwood, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 137th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 29, 1918 / Age: 22
Died in Base Hospital No. 25, on Oct. 29, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Buried at Allerey, France. Remains returned to U. S. on Feb. 21, 1921, and buried in South Lutheran Cemetery, Northwood, N. Dak.
1918
John Windon
World War I (WWI)
Date of Loss: November 11, 1918 / Age:
Name NOT included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information NOT found in the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Samuel Wingenbach
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 27th Company, Casual Detachment, Spruce Production Division, Vancouver Barracks, Wash.
Date of Loss: November 04, 1918 / Age: 25
Died of pneumonia on Nov. 4, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 4, page 3496 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Charles Theodore Winkley
Marion, IN
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 137th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 29, 1918 / Age: 31
Killed in action, on Sept. 29, 1918.
Buried, Grave 27, Row 45, Block C, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
World War I (WWI) Student Army Training Corps (SATC)
1918
Private Elmer Ben Winters
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Student Army Training Corps UND Grand Forks ND
Date of Loss: October 20, 1918 / Age: 26
Died while serving as a member of the Student Army Training Corps on the UND campus in Grand Forks during the 1918 flu pandemic. Name included on the UND S.A.T.C. website
Buried at Prairie View Cemetery, Barnes County, North Dakota.