State Heroes Total:
3940
Service Branch

World War I

Gottlieb Reily photo 1918

Gottlieb Reily

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: September 29, 1918 / Age: 24

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

Buried, Grave 22, Row 37, Block G, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

Sevrin Bourk photo 1918

Pvt. Sevrin Bourk

Sykeston, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 1st Army Headquarters Regiment

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

Killed by prisoner when making an arrest as a Military Police, on Nov. 18, 1918, at La Harve, France.

Buried, Grave 10, Row 19, Block B, Somme American Cemetery, Bony, Aisne, France.

John R. Holdaas photo 1918

Pvt. John R. Holdaas

Bottineau, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: September 26, 1918 / Age: 29

Killed in action on Sept. 26, 1918.

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

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

Alphonse Leo Larson photo 1918

Alphonse Leo Larson

Calvin, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery D, 337th Field Artillery

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

Died of pneumonia, Oct. 24, 1918, at Clermont, Ferrand, France.

Remains returned to U. S. on May 31, 1921, and buried at Calvin, N. Dak.

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

Aron D. Svahn photo 1918

Aron D. Svahn

Lawton, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

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

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

Buried, Lawton, N. Dak.

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

Lemuel F. Shortridge photo 1918

Pvt.1st Class Lemuel F. Shortridge

Kenmare, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: June 06, 1918 / Age: 23

Died of broncho pneumonia, at Beavais, France, on June 6, 1918.

Remains returned to U. S. March 28, 1921, and buried at Kenmare, N. Dak.

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

Joseph Sherman photo 1918

Joseph Sherman, Jr.

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent:8th Brigade

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent:4th Division (Regular)

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

Drowned on May 23, 1918, in the sinking of the Moldavia.

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

Phillip John Mayer, Jr. photo 1918

Phillip John Mayer, Jr.

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Air Service

Date of Loss: May 02, 1918 / Age: 25

Died on May 2, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 3, page 2120 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Albert Grass photo 1918

Pvt. Albert Grass

Cannon Ball, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 164th Infantry

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

Killed in action at Soissons-Paris Road, July 18, 1918. His company was entrenched along the Paris, Soissons Road south of the Chemin de Dames and he volunteered to get some water for his buddies.

John P. Milloy photo 1918

John P. Milloy

Willow City, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: September 28, 1918 / Age: 27

Killed in action on Sept. 28, 1918.

Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on Nov. 9, 1921, and buried at Willow City, N. Dak.

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

Harold E. Williams photo 1918

Harold E. Williams

Reynolds, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company G, Replacement Depot Battalion, Signal Corps

Date of Loss: October 08, 1918 / Age: 29

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 8, 1918.

Remains returned to U. S. on Nov. 3, 1920, and buried at Reynolds, N. Dak.

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

Albert O. Kalad photo 1918

Pvt. Albert O. Kalad

Crookston, MN

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 26

Killed in action on Oct. 4, 1918.

Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on Aug. 1, 1921, and consigned to Sam Omar, 317 N. Broadway, Crookston, Minn. (placeof burial not given).

George Alexander Kerian photo 1918

George Alexander Kerian

Minto, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 23rd Company, Columbia Coas Artillery Corps

Date of Loss: October 19, 1918 / Age: 21

Died of broncho pneumonia at Fort Stevens, Ore., on Oct. 19, 1918.

Buried at Minto, N. Dak.

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

Oscar D. Keene photo 1918

Cpl. Oscar D. Keene

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company I, 47th Infantry

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

Killed in action on Aug. 4, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 2, page 1638 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Virgil Raymond Erickson photo 1918

Cpl. Virgil Raymond Erickson

Devils Lake, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 02, 1918 / Age: 25

Killed in action on Oct. 2, 1918.

Buried in France. Reburied in Kato township, Ramsey county, N. Dak.

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