State Heroes Total:
3942
Service Branch

World War I (WWI)

Charles Arthur Hoff photo 1918

Pvt. Charles Arthur Hoff

Fort Ransom, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 128th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 15, 1918 / Age: 24

Killed in action on Oct. 15, 1918.

Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on Aug. 8, 1921, and buried at Fort Ransom, N. Dak.

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

Willis O. Gish photo 1918

Willis O. Gish

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 8th Ammunition Train

Date of Loss: July 14, 1918 / Age: 28

Murdered - strangulation - on July 14, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 2, page 1060 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Osmer James Leigh photo 1918

Pvt. Osmer James Leigh

Royalton, MN

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 58th Infantry

Date of Loss: September 22, 1918 / Age: 24

Died of pneumonia on Sept. 22, 1918.

Remains returned to U. S. on Nov. 10, 1920, and consigned to J. E. Leigh, Royalton, Minn. (place of burial not given).

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

Frederick E. Smith photo 1918

Lieutenant Colonel Frederick E. Smith

Rockford, IL

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 308th Infantry

Date of Loss: September 29, 1918 / Age: 45

When communication from the forward regimental post of command to the battalion leading the advance had been interrupted temporarily, by the infiltration of small parties of the enemy armed with machine guns, Lieutenant-Colonel Smith personally led a p

Thomas Lyle Russell photo 1918

1st Lt. Thomas Lyle Russell

Minneapolis, MN

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 47th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 23

Killed in action on Oct. 4, 1918, at Bois de Brieulles.

Buried, Cemetery No. 735, Bois de Brieulles.

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

Frank E Willard photo 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.

Preston George McGarry photo 1918

Preston George McGarry

Willow City, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: School for Bakers and Cooks, Camp Custer, Mich.

Date of Loss: October 09, 1918 / Age: 24

Died of pneumonia at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 9, 1918.

Buried at Willow City, N. Dak.

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

Leete Gladstone Van Syckle photo 1918

Leete Gladstone Van Syckle

Grand Forks, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 53rd Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: October 05, 1918 / Age: 26

Died of influenza pneumonia at Camp Hancock, Ga., on Oct. 5, 1918.

Buried at Grand Forks, N. Dak.

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

George Arlington Hill photo 1918

Seaman 2c George Arlington Hill

Ardoch, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Navy

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Naval Training Station, Seattle, Wash.

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

Died of pneumonia at Seattle, Wash., on Oct. 13, 1918.

Buried at Ardoch, N. Dak.

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

James Johannson photo 1918

James Johannson

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.

Raymond Alexander Hanson photo 1918

Mechanic Raymond Alexander Hanson

Shell Lake, WI

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 164th Infantry

Date of Loss: June 11, 1918 / Age: 27

Killed in action on June 11, 1918, at Cantigny, France.

Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on March 28, 1921, and buried at Shell Lake, Wis., on April 2, 1921.

Arron Holmquist photo 1918

Arron Holmquist

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.

Ernest Julius Alfred Erickson photo 1918

Pvt.1st Class Ernest Julius Alfred Erickson

Wilton, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 361st Infantry

Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 29

Killed in action in Argonne Forest, on Oct. 10, 1918.

Buried, Wilton, N. Dak.

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

Ignace Kushnir photo 1918

Pvt. Ignace Kushnir

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Machine Gun Company, 164th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 09, 1918 / Age: 27

Killed in action on Oct. 9, 1918.

Buried, Grave 8, Row 29, Block G, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Viktor Scherbinski photo 1918

Viktor Scherbinski

World War I (WWI)

Date of Loss: November 11, 1918 / Age:

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

Information NOT found in the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.