State Heroes
World War I (WWI)
1919
Pvt.1st Class Gordon Harold Powers
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Ordnance Repair Shops, Motor Transport Corps
Date of Loss: March 14, 1919 / Age: 23
Died of influenza on March 14, 1919.
Buried, Grave 28, Row 19, Block A, St. Mihiel American Cemetery, Thiaucourt, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1919
Allen W. Stanton
Lakeview, MI
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 115th Infantry
Date of Loss: March 20, 1919 / Age: 23
Died at US Base Hospital No. 69, Army Postoffice No. 939, Savenay, France, March 20, 1919.
Remains returned to U. S. Oct. 6, 1920, and buried at Winfield Cemetery, Lakeview, Mich.
1919
Frederick Garfield Baker
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery E, 18th Field Artillery
Date of Loss: June 14, 1919 / Age: 32
Accidentally killed at Palch, Germany, June 14, 1919.
Buried at Marn, Germany. Remains returned to U. S. Oct. 4, 1920, and buried in Grave 656, National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
1919
Pvt. Frank Lucas Schanilec
Vesleyville, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery C, 40th Field Artillery
Date of Loss: August 09, 1919 / Age: 23
Died at Dunseith, N. Dak., on Aug. 9, 1919.
Buried at Vesleyville, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1919
Horace Albert Tanner
Danville, IL
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 362nd Infantry
Date of Loss: June 09, 1919 / Age: 23
Died at LeMans, France, on June 9, 1919.
1919
Pvt.1st Class Lewis D. Weeks
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 220th Company, Military Police Corps, Aviation Section, Production Center No. 2
Date of Loss: February 06, 1919 / Age: 21
Died of accidental shot, on Feb. 6, 1919.
Buried, Feb. 7, 1919, in Grave 50, Cemetery 159, Romorantin, France. Remains returned to U. S. on Nov. 17, 1920, and consigned to Lewis J. Weeks, Prole, Iowa. (place of burial not given).
1919
Nurse Nora Emile Anderson
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Base Hospital No. 68
Date of Loss: January 16, 1919 / Age: 38
Died of meningitis, on Jan. 16, 1919.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 1, page 87 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1919
Pvt. Fred William Berner
Jamestown, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 21st Engineers
Date of Loss: April 02, 1919 / Age: 25
Died of pneumonia, on April 2, 1919, at Base Hospital No. 87, Toul, Meuse.
Remains returned to U. S. on May 23, 1921, and buried in Grave 1770, National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
1919
Sgt. Peter O. Sunde
Wadena, MN
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 54th Infantry
Date of Loss: March 03, 1919 / Age: 31
Died of pneumonia on March 3, 1919.
Remains returned to U. S. June 14, 1921, and buried at Wadena, Minn.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1919
AS Clarence Philip Hickner
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Navy
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: USS Scranton
Date of Loss: March 28, 1919 / Age: 18
Died on USS Scranton on March 28, 1919.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 2, page 1347 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1919
Lemuel Morgan Wells
Cando, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 26th Engineers
Date of Loss: February 03, 1919 / Age: 28
Died of broncho pneumonia, at Bordeaux, France, on Feb. 3, 1919.
Buried at Gironde, France. Remains returned to U. S. on Nov. 10, 1920, and buried at Cando, N. Dak.
1919
Pvt.1st Class Ray A. Halver
Bismarck, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 40th Company, Transportation Corps
Date of Loss: March 16, 1919 / Age: 34
Died of typhoid fever on March 16, 1919.
Remains returned to U. S. on May 31, 1921, and buried in Grave 1785, Arlington National Cemetery, Va.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1919
1st Lt. William LaFayette Cowper
Grand Forks, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Medical Corps
Date of Loss: March 09, 1919 / Age: 41
Died at Camp Hospital No. 40, Anur Rest Camp, Liverpool, England, on March 9, 1919.
Buried in Cemetery No. 288, Liverpool, England. Remains returned to U. S. on Aug. 23, 1920, and buried at Grand Forks, N. Dak., on Sept. 7, 1920.
1919
Pvt. Ross Rankin Sherwood
Almont, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company F, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: December 29, 1919 / Age: 24
Died of disease at Bereszoka, Siberia, on Dec. 29, 1919.
Burial, Almont, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1919
Charles Karl Nielson
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 339th Machine Gun Battalion
Date of Loss: March 14, 1919 / Age: 24
Died of pneumonia on March 14, 1919.
Buried, Grave 26, Row 16, Block E, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1919
Nickodemus Ereth
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 3rd Spruce Squadron, Spruce Production Division
Date of Loss: September 15, 1919 / Age: 28
Died of broncho pneumonia, on Sept. 15, 1919.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 1, page 847 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.