State Heroes Total:
3942
Service Branch

World War I (WWI)

Otto Leysring photo 1918

Otto Leysring

Windsor, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: September 28, 1918 / Age: 25

Killed in action on Sept. 28, 1918, at Argonne Forest.

Buried, Grave 37, Row 30, Block E, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

Oscar Hilden photo 1918

Pvt. Oscar Hilden

Ellendale, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: September 29, 1918 / Age: 23

Killed in action, on Sept. 29, 1918.

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

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

Walter Fred Marty photo 1918

Walter Fred Marty

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 35th Company, 161st Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: October 03, 1918 / Age: 28

Died of pneumonia, at Camp Grant, Ill., on Oct. 3, 1918.

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

Lewis Marcus Thune photo 1918

1st Lt. Lewis Marcus Thune

South Superior, WI

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 25

Killed in action, Oct. 14, 1918.

Buried, Grave 3, Row 43, Block B, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

Thor Thorvalsen photo 1918

Thor Thorvalsen

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 161st Depot Brigade

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

Died on pneumonia on Oct. 5, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 4, page 3243 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Edgar John Dunnigan photo 1918

Edgar John Dunnigan

Olga, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 34th Company, 161st Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: October 05, 1918 / Age: 27

Died of pneumonia, at Camp Grant, Ill., on Oct. 5, 1918.

Buried at Olga, N. Dak.

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

Frederik Laurids Ingvorsen photo 1918

Pvt.1st Class Frederik Laurids Ingvorsen

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 357th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 02, 1918 / Age: 28

Killed in action on Oct. 2, 1918.

Buried, Tine Grove, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France. Remains returned to Denmark and consigned to Mr. Hans Ingvorsen, Dalby Taagerup pe. Thureby, Sjalland, Denmark.

Martin L. Sandberg photo 1918

Martin L. Sandberg

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 15th Recruit Company, Jefferson Barracks, Mo.

Date of Loss: March 20, 1918 / Age: 33

Died of pneumonia on March 20, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 4, page 2815 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Clarence Gerhard Evingson photo 1918

Clarence Gerhard Evingson

Kindred, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters Company, 317th Field Signal Battalion

Date of Loss: February 25, 1918 / Age: 22

Died of diphtheria, Camp Devens, Mass., on Feb. 25, 1918.

Buried, Kindred, N. Dak.

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

Helmer Ellenson photo 1918

Pvt. Helmer Ellenson

Gardiner [sic] (possibly Gardner or Gardiner, MT), ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 138th Infantry Regiment, 35th Division

Date of Loss: September 30, 1918 / Age: 23

Died on Sept. 30, 1918, of wounds received in Meuse-Argonne Offensive.

Buried, Grave 34, Row 18, Block F, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

Leonard M. Kubousek photo 1918

Pvt. Leonard M. Kubousek

Minto, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company No. 2, Fort Leavenworth September Automatic Replacement Draft, Signal Corps

Date of Loss: October 17, 1918 / Age: 18

Died of pneumonia, on Oct. 17, 1918.

Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on Oct. 6, 1920, and buried at Minto, N. Dak.

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

Clarence Edwin Hesgard photo 1918

Clarence Edwin Hesgard

Buxton, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company No. 35, 9th Battalion, 163rd Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: October 13, 1918 / Age: 25

Died of pneumonia, at Camp Dodge, Iowa, on Oct. 13, 1918.

Buried at Buxton, N. Dak.

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

Herman Eugene Temple photo 1918

Herman Eugene Temple

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 16th Infantry

Date of Loss: July 18, 1918 / Age: 26

Killed in action on July 18, 1918.

Buried in France. Reburied in Arlington National Cemetery, Va.

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

Mervin R. Givan photo 1918

Mervin R. Givan

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.

John William Ramsey photo 1918

Private John William Ramsey

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Student Army Training Corps UND Grand Forks ND

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

Died while serving as a member of the Student Army Training Corps on the UND campus in Grand Forks during the 1918 flu pandemic. Name included on the UND S.A.T.C. website