State Heroes Total:
3932
Service Branch

World War I

Ingvald Gjertson photo 1918

Pvt. Ingvald Gjertson

Wolford, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 137th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 13, 1918 / Age: 25

Died on Oct. 13, 1918, of wounds received in action.

Buried in American Cemetery, Bozoilles, Vosges, France. Remains returned to Norway, and consigned to Mrs. Arma Rosindrson Gjertson, Raranger, Norway. (place of burial not given).

Howard B. Bean photo 1918

Cpl. Howard B. Bean

Oakes, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company G, 16th Infantry

Date of Loss: July 22, 1918 / Age: 29

Died on July 22, 1918, of wounds received in action.

Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on Aug. 29, 1921, and consigned to Livingston Bean, Oakes, N. Dak. (Place of burial unknown).

Clarence Gerhard Evingson photo 1918

Clarence Gerhard Evingson

Kindred, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters Company, 317th Field Signal Battalion

Date of Loss: February 25, 1918 / Age: 22

Died of diphtheria, Camp Devens, Mass., on Feb. 25, 1918.

Buried, Kindred, N. Dak.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

Lyle Eugene Giffen photo 1918

Lyle Eugene Giffen

Glencoe, MN

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Training Detachment, Army Air Service Mechanics School

Date of Loss: December 06, 1918 / Age: 19

Died of pneumonia, at St. Paul, Minn., on Dec. 6, 1918.

Buried at Glencoe, Minn.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

Austin Fortune photo 1918

Austin Fortune

Wheaton, MN

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Medical Department

Date of Loss: June 27, 1918 / Age: 29

Died at Fort Riley, Kans., on June 27, 1918.

Buried at Wheaton, Minn.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

Harry E. Lean Elk photo 1918

Pvt. Harry E. Lean Elk

Porcupine, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company No. 2, 138th Infantry

Date of Loss: June 17, 1918 / Age: 23

Died of broncho pneumonia in England on June 17, 1918.

Buried in England. Reburied in the Porcupine Cemetery, Sioux county, N. Dak., on Sept. 25, 1920.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

Gust Kruger photo 1918

Pvt. Gust Kruger

Madison, SD

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 112th Infantry Regiment, 28th Division

Date of Loss: September 29, 1918 / Age: 22

Died on Sept. 29, 1918, of wounds received in action.

Buried, Grave 33, Row 43, Block D, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

Carl Alfred Oefstedahl photo 1918

Pvt. Carl Alfred Oefstedahl

Spring Grove, MN

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company L, 138th Infantry

Date of Loss: July 11, 1918 / Age: 25

Killed in action on July 11, 1918.

Remains returned to U. S. on Aug. 1, 1921, and buried at Spring Grove, Minn.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

John William Ramsey photo 1918

Private John William Ramsey

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Student Army Training Corps UND Grand Forks ND

Date of Loss: October 21, 1918 / Age: 21

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

Sigurd Lima photo 1918

Sigurd Lima

Cooperstown

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company G, 308th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 03, 1918 / Age: 26

Killed in action on Oct. 3, 1918.

Buried, Grave 11, Row 4, Block G, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

Fred Shephard photo 1918

Fred Shephard

Hensel, ND

World War I

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company L, 23rd Infantry

Date of Loss: September 13, 1918 / Age: 26

Killed in action on Sept. 13, 1918.

Remains returned to U. S. Aug. 4, 1921, and buried in Grave 1986, European Section, National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.

John Andrew Carlson photo 1918

Pvt. John Andrew Carlson

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 359th Infantry Regiment, 90th Division

Date of Loss: September 13, 1918 / Age: 28

Killed in action on Sept. 13, 1918.

Buried Grave 14, Row 24, Block D, St. Mihiel American Cemetery, Thiaucourt, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

Lyle Porter Cunningham photo 1918

Lyle Porter Cunningham

Kenmare, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Detachment No. 3, 64th Spruce Squadron

Date of Loss: July 30, 1918 / Age: 24

Drowned at Aberdeen, Wash., on July 30, 1918.

Buried, Kenmare, N. Dak.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

Garrett Hobart Jones photo 1918

Pvt. Garrett Hobart Jones

Bantry, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 335th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 22

Died at Vauclaire, France, of broncho pneumonia, on Oct. 12, 1918.

Buried at Vauclaire, France.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

Edward Clarence Nordin photo 1918

Edward Clarence Nordin

Atwater, MN

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 137th Infantry

Date of Loss: September 28, 1918 / Age: 24

Killed in action in Argonne Forest, on Sept. 28, 1918.

Buried in France.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.