State Heroes

Pvt. William Perry Makee

Kenmare, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: September 26, 1918 / Age: 21

Killed in action, at Verennes, France, on Sept. 26, 1918.

Buried in France. Reburied at Kenmare, N. Dak.

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

Thore Thoreson

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

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

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

Died of pneumonia on June 3, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 4, page 3236 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Joseph Alexander Preshard

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 36th Company, 9th Battalion, 163rd Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 28

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 11, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 3, page 2605 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

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.

Pvt. Albert H. Floyd

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: July 19, 1918 / Age: 24

Killed in action on July 19, 1918.

Buried in France. Reburied in Southfields, London, S. W. 18, England.

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

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.

Raymond V. Kirkey

Minot, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: July 18, 1918 / Age: 24

Killed in action on July 18, 1918.

Remains returned to U. S., on July 25, 1921, and consigned to Mrs. Mary Kirkey, Minot, N. Dak. (place of burial not given).

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.

Thor Elias Vatsvik

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 140th Infantry

Date of Loss: September 26, 1918 / Age: 28

Killed in action on Sept. 26, 1918. 

Remains returned to Norway and consigned to Alaphias Vatsvik, Skjareham, Norway. (place of burial not given).

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

Harold C. Greer

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.

Leo E. Stovern

Rosholt, SD

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 362nd Infantry

Date of Loss: September 30, 1918 / Age: 27

Killed in action on Sept. 30, 1918.

Remains returned to U. S. on Sept. 12, 1921, and buried in Bethania Cemetery, Rosholt, S. Dak.

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

Pvt.1st Class Basil Skraba

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: July 18, 1918 / Age: 23

Killed in action on July 18, 1918.

Grave unlocated.

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.

Charles Pokorny

Silver Lake, MN

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 315th Engineers

Date of Loss: September 26, 1918 / Age: 24

Killed in action on Sept. 26, 1918.

Remains returned to U. S. on Aug. 1, 1921, and buried in Congregational Cemetery, Silver Lake, Minn.

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

Edward Nicholas Weber

St. Martin, MN

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: May 23, 1918 / Age: 22

Killed in action on May 23, 1918, in sinking of Moldavia.

Buried in the British Channel.

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

Stanley Ostrowski

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 7th Machine Gun Battalion

Date of Loss: October 20, 1918 / Age: 22

Killed in action on Oct. 20, 1918.

Buried in Grave 31, Row 16, Block C, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.