State Heroes Total:
3940
Service Branch

World War I

Thomas Francis Devaney photo 1918

Thomas Francis Devaney

Vail, IA

World War I

Branch of Service: Marines

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 18th Company, 5th Regiment

Date of Loss: June 12, 1918 / Age: 23

Killed in action, June 12, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 1, page 714 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Christ Sortland photo 1918

Christ Sortland

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company F, 138th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 01, 1918 / Age: 24

Killed in action on Oct. 1, 1918.

Buried, Grave 32, Section 18, Block 1, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France. Remains returned to Norway, and consigned to Ole John Sortland, Bergen, Norway.

Emil Lyman Newman photo 1918

Emil Lyman Newman

Carthage, IL

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company G, 20th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 28, 1918 / Age: 17

Died in Base Hospital, Fort Riley, Kans., on Oct. 28, 1918.

Buried, Carthage, Ill.

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

Arthur Eugene Shaw photo 1918

Pvt.1st Class Arthur Eugene Shaw

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 23

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

Buried in Grave 8, Row 37, Block C, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

Albert Herman Rohde photo 1918

Albert Herman Rohde

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 36th Company, 161st Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: October 06, 1918 / Age: 30

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 6, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 4, page 2741 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Frank B. Peterman photo 1918

Frank B. Peterman

Chicago, IL

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

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

Killed in action on Sept. 28, 1918.

Buried, Grave 35, Row 19, Block G, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

Albert Richard Nord photo 1918

Albert Richard Nord

Carver, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company M, 358th Infantry

Date of Loss: September 14, 1918 / Age: 30

Died on Sept. 14, 1918, of wounds received in action.

Remains returned to U. S. on June 20, 1921, and buried in West Union Cemetery, Carver, Minn.

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

Helmer P. Stigen photo 1918

Helmer P. Stigen

Gorham, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 41st Company, 160th Depot Brigade

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

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 11, 1918.

Buried, Gorham, N. Dak.

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

Paul John Soberg photo 1918

Paul John Soberg

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 38th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 24

Killed in action on Oct. 12, 1918.

Buried, Grave 30, Row 7, Block C, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Magnus H. Bjornson photo 1918

Pvt.1st Class Magnus H. Bjornson

Mountain, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 78th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 05, 1918 / Age: 24

Died of pneumonia, at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 5, 1918.

Buried at Mountain, N. Dak.

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

Lynn Fancis Spiering photo 1918

Cpl. Lynn Fancis Spiering

Hillsboro, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: July 20, 1918 / Age: 20

Killed in action on July 20, 1918.

Grave unlocated.

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

Emery W. Brisbin photo 1918

Pvt. Emery W. Brisbin

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 164th Ambulance Company, 116th Sanitary Train

Date of Loss: July 20, 1918 / Age: 23

Killed in action on July 20, 1918.

Returned to U. S. and buried in Grave 1549, National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.

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

John George Bender photo 1918

Seaman John George Bender

World War I

Branch of Service: Navy

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: SS Pioneer

Date of Loss: October 13, 1918 / Age: 20

Died in Naval Hospital, New York, on Oct. 13, 1918.

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

Samuel Lee Avis photo 1918

1st Lt. Samuel Lee Avis

Jamestown, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Engineers

Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 28

Died at Camp Humphreys, Va., of influenza and pneumonia, on Oct. 12, 1918.

Place of burial, Jamestown, N. Dak.

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

Axel Molander photo 1918

Axel Molander

World War I

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.