State Heroes

Martin Peterson

World War I (WWI)

Date of Loss: November 11, 1918 / Age:

Name NOT 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.

George Leslie Rourke

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

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

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

Died, July 24, 1918, of wounds received in action.

Buried, Grave 3, Row 6, Block B, Suresnes American Cemetery, Suresnes, Seine, France.

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

Michael Sperle

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: November 10, 1918 / Age: 22

Killed in action on Nov. 10, 1918.

Buried, Grave 11, Row 21, Block H, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Albert A. Bodeen

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 424th Telegraph Railway Battalion, Signal Corps

Date of Loss: October 25, 1918 / Age: 21

Died at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., of broncho pneumonia, on Oct. 25, 1918.

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

Pvt.1st Class Walter John Thome

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: July 19, 1918 / Age: 19

Killed in action, near Soissons, July 19, 1918.

Buried, Grave 9, Row 36, Block B, Oise-Aisne American Cemetery, Seringes-et-Nesles, Aisne, France.

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

Harold Sharp

World War I (WWI)

Date of Loss: November 11, 1918 / Age:

Name NOT 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.

Cpl. Howard W. Dietrich

South Bend, IN

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters Company, 1st Field Artillery Brigade

Date of Loss: September 27, 1918 / Age: 22

Died of pneumonia on Sept. 27, 1918.

Remains returned to U. S. on June 1, 1921, and buried in Riverview Cemetery, South Bend, Ind.

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

Leonard Carson House

Garrison, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, Military Police, 14th Division

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

Died of pneumonia, on Oct. 11, 1918, at Camp Custer, Mich.

Burial, Garrison, N. Dak.

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

Arthur Edwin Erickson

Bowman, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 40th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 18, 1918 / Age: 22

Died of pneumonia at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 18, 1918.

Buried at Bowman, N. Dak.

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

Fireman 3c Floyd Albert Cooper

Leith, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Navy

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: USS Mercy

Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 19

Died at Yorktown, Va., on Oct. 14, 1918.

Buried, Leith, N. Dak.

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

Albert Nansen Olson

Dazey, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery C, 42nd Field Artillery

Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 22

Died of pneumonia at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 10, 1918.

Buried at Dazey, N. Dak.

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

Thomas Batterberry

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.

Arthur Oldmouse

Elbowoods, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company No. 22, September Automatic Replacement Draft

Date of Loss: October 07, 1918 / Age: 29

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 7, 1918.

Remains returned to U. S. on Oct. 12, 1920, and buried at Elbowoods, N. Dak.

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

Alfred R. Wolcott

World War I (WWI)

Date of Loss: November 11, 1918 / Age:

Name NOT 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.

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.

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.