State Heroes
World War I (WWI)
Coxswain Charles Otto Morgenstern
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Navy
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: USS New York
Date of Loss: February 16, 1918 / Age: 21
Died on USS New York, on Feb. 16, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 3, page 2220 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Ole Melvin Morken
Pekin, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 2nd Machine Gun Battalion
Date of Loss: October 01, 1918 / Age: 26
Killed in action on Oct. 1, 1918.
Buried, Grave 14, Row 25, Block A, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Edwin Morken
Springgrove, MN
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 06, 1918 / Age: 28
Killed in action on Oct. 6, 1918.
Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on Oct. 17, 1921, and consigned to Sam Morken, Springgrove, Minn. (place of burial not given).
1918
Gottlieb Morlock
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 128th Infantry
Date of Loss: December 05, 1918 / Age: 27
Died of wounds on Dec. 5, 1918, at Reserve Hospital, Lindau, Germany.
Buried, Soldiers Cemetery, Lindau, Germany. Remains reinterred in Grave 32, Row 36, Block C, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Nurse Sophia Ellen Morrison
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Base Hospital, Camp Devens, Mass.
Relieved from active duty on Jan. 31, 1919, as an Army Nurse.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Gilman Morstad
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company G, 47th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 03, 1918 / Age: 29
Died on Oct. 3, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Buried, Grave 2, Row 19, Block A, Suresnes American Cemetery, Suresnes, Seine, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
John Thomas Morton
Page, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Machine Gun Company, 58th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 22, 1918 / Age: 25
Died on Sept. 22, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Buried in France; remains returned to U. S. on Nov. 18, 1920, and buried at Page, N. Dak.
Name NOT included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
2nd Lt. Leon Nelson Moshier
Mayville, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company F, 26th Infantry
Date of Loss: July 20, 1918 / Age: 21
Died on July 20, 1918, at Field Hospital No. 12, of wounds received in action at Aisne-Marne.
Remains returned to U. S. on Jan. 17, 1921, and buried at Mayville, N. Dak.
Private Leo Matt Muchvitsch
Wahpeton, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company L, 139th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 28, 1918 / Age: 27
Killed in action on Sept. 28, 1918.
Remains returned to U. S., Oct. 10, 1921, and buried at Wahpeton, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Joseph Stephen Mudek
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Marines
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 43rd Company, 5th Regiment
Date of Loss: June 13, 1918 / Age: 24
Killed in action, June 13, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 3, page 2239 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
Philipp Muller
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 78th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 06, 1918 / Age: 26
Died of pneumonia, on Oct. 6, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 3, page 2244 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
Richard Muri
Mekinock, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 2nd Battalion,163rd Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: April 17, 1918 / Age: 24
Died of pneumonia, at Camp Dodge, Iowa, on April 17, 1918.
Buried at Mekinock, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Sgt. Michael James Murphy
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Marines
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 97th Company, 6th Regiment
Date of Loss: July 19, 1918 / Age: 27
Killed in action, July 19, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 3, page 2254 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
John J. Murphy
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company M, 163rd Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: May 28, 1918 / Age: 26
Died of pneumonia on May 28, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 3, page 2253 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
Pvt. Joseph Murray
Bismarck, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Central Officers Training School
Date of Loss: October 05, 1918 / Age: 28
Died of pneumonia, on Oct. 5, 1918.
Buried at Bismarck, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Cpl. Stanford Amick Myers
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 07, 1918 / Age: 30
Killed in action on Oct. 7, 1918.
Buried, Grave 35, Row 10, Block E, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.