State Heroes
World War I (WWI)
1918
Henry Ramberg
Kinloss, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company G, 306th Infantry
Date of Loss: November 18, 1918 / Age: 22
Died of bronchitis, Nov. 18, 1918.
Buried, Grave 40, Row 22, Block A, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Charles Frederick Schwartz
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company L, 139th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 28, 1918 / Age: 25
Killed in action, Argonne, on Sept. 28, 1918.
Buried, Grave 7, Row 23, 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
Herman Nicolay Skjerseth
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 138th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 02, 1918 / Age: 31
Killed in action, on Oct. 2, 1918, at Commune of Chatel-Chehery, Dept. Ardennes.
Buried, Grave 9, Row 26, Block D, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
William C. Schneider
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 1st Battalion, 163rd Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: May 02, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of pneumonia on May 2, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 4, page 2868 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
Reuben Alfred Hartman
Turtle Lake, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 161st Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 05, 1918 / Age: 22
Died of influenza at Camp Hancock, Ga., on Oct. 5, 1918.
Buried, Turtle Lake, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Private First Class Albert T. Vanderwaal
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A
Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent:348th Machine Gun Battalion
Date of Loss: November 01, 1918 / Age: 29
Killed in action on Nov. 1, 1918.
Buried, Grave 1, Row 4, Block D, Flanders Field American Cemetery, Waereghem, Belgium.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Apprentice Seaman Alfred Lund
Nekoma, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Navy
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Naval Hospital, Great Lakes, Ill.
Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 17
Died at Naval Hospital, Great Lakes, Ill., on Oct. 4, 1918.
Buried, Nekoma, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Frank Leslie Townsend
LaMoure, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company M, 137th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 27, 1918 / Age: 24
Killed in action on Sept. 27, 1918.
Buried, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France. Remains returned to U. S. on Sept. 19, 1921, and buried at LaMoure, N. Dak.
Emil T. Dunham
Erhards Grove, MN
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 43rd Company, 161st Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 08, 1918 / Age: 25
Died of pneumonia, at Camp Grant, Ill., on Oct. 8, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Raymond Stake
Chambersburg, PA
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters Company, 58th Infantry
Date of Loss: July 18, 1918 / Age: 22
Killed in action, at Chateau-Thierry, on July 18, 1918.
Buried, Grave 23, Row 4, Block A, Aisne-Marne American Cemetery, Belleau, Aisne, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
George W. Zengel
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.
Bjarni Kjartanson
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.
2nd Lt. Grant Andrew McDonald
Grafton, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 349th Infantry
Date of Loss: July 04, 1918 / Age: 23
Died at Camp Dodge, Iowa, on July 4, 1918, of accidental gunshot wound.
Buried at Grafton, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Yeoman Second Class John Anderson
Hoople, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Navy
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: USS Von Steuben
Date of Loss: April 01, 1918 / Age: 19
Died at Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa., on April 1, 1918.
Buried at Hoople, N. Dak.
Name NOT included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Allen B. Loudon
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
Otto Leysring
Windsor, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company L, 137th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 28, 1918 / Age: 25
Killed in action on Sept. 28, 1918, at Argonne Forest.
Buried, Grave 37, Row 30, Block E, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.