State Heroes
World War I (WWI)
Pvt. John Francis Middleton
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company L, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: July 18, 1918 / Age: 29
Killed in action on July 18, 1918.
Returned to U. S. Nov. 28, 1921. Buried, Grave 3872, European Section, National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Johannes Frederick Jagd
Valley City, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery B, 42nd Field Artillery
Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 29
Died of pneumonia, at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 10, 1918.
Buried at Valley City, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Christian Albert Peterson
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: May 30, 1918 / Age: 24
Killed in action on May 30, 1918.
Buried, Grave 2, Row 20, Block C, Somme American Cemetery, Bony, Aisne, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND as Christ A Peterson.
1918
Private Fred Halvorsen Almos
South Heart, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Machine Gun Company, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: May 29, 1918 / Age: 20
Killed in action on May 29, 1918.
Buried, Grave 2, Row 22, Block C, Somme American Cemetery, Bony Aisne, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND under Benson county.
Orrin Ezra Lee
Oldham, SD
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery A, 339th Field Artillery
Date of Loss: September 27, 1918 / Age: 22
Died of pneumonia at Clermont, Farrand, France, on Sept. 27, 1918.
Remains returned to U. S. and buried in Grave 1619, European Section, National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
Carl Otto Lindner
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 14th Mobile Veterinary Section
Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 26
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 14, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 3, page 1907 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
Theodore Togstad
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company L, 362nd Infantry
Date of Loss: October 31, 1918 / Age: 26
Killed in action on Oct. 31, 1918.
Buried, Grave 2, Row 2, Block B, Flanders Field American Cemetery, Waereghem, Belgium.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Charles Leo Olmstead
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Navy
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Naval Training Station, Great Lakes, Ill.
Date of Loss: April 27, 1918 / Age: 26
Died in Naval Hospital, Great Lakes, Ill., on April 27, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Bugler Oscar Finkenhagen
Lignite, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company I, 357th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 25, 1918 / Age: 23
Killed in action on Oct. 25, 1918.
Buried in Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France. Remains returned to U. S. on Oct. 17, 1921, and buried at Lignite, N. Dak.
1918
Fred Nylund
New York Mills, MN
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 140th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 26, 1918 / Age: 26
Killed in action on Sept. 26, 1918.
Buried, Grave 12, Row 24, Block D, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name 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.
William Jasmer
Hankinson, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Supply Company, 77th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 13, 1918 / Age: 24
Died at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 13, 1918.
Buried at Lutheran cemetery, Hankinson, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
2nd Lt. Carl John Clementson
Grand Forks, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Marines
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 36th Company
Date of Loss: September 25, 1918 / Age: 36
Died of disease, at sea, Sept. 25, 1918.
Burial: Memorial Park Cemetery, Grand Forks, Grand Forks county, North Dakota, USA.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Pvt.1st Class Charles E. Clark
Blue Earth, MN
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company F, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: July 18, 1918 / Age: 22
Killed in action on July 18, 1918.
Grave unlocated.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
George Ellsbury Luce
Hope, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 209th Engineers
Date of Loss: October 25, 1918 / Age: 27
Died of broncho pneumonia, at Camp Sheridan, Ala., on Oct. 25, 1918.
Buried at Hope, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
AMM1 Nels Edward Henderson
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Navy
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Naval Air Station, Rockaway Beach
Date of Loss: October 16, 1918 / Age: 23
Died at Rockaway Beach, L. I., N. Y., on Oct. 16, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND under Divide county.