State Heroes Total:
3938
Service Branch

World War I

Elmer Hartlet Thompson photo 1919

PFC Elmer Hartlet Thompson

Fargo, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 1st Heavy Artillery Motor Ordnance Repair Shop

Date of Loss: April 06, 1919 / Age: 27

Died at Coblenz, Germany, on April 6, 1919.

Buried at Coblenz, Germany. Remains returned to U. S. July 29, 1920, and buried at Fargo, N. Dak.

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

Thomas George Laughlin photo 1919

Cpl. Thomas George Laughlin

Grand Forks, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: March 22, 1919 / Age: 22

Accidentally killed by passenger train, in France, on March 22, 1919.

Remains returned to U. S. on July 7, 1922, and consigned to James Laughlin, Grand Forks, N. Dak. (place of burial not given).

Elmer Justin Irgens photo 1919

Elmer Justin Irgens

Tolley, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 139th Infantry

Date of Loss: June 15, 1919 / Age: 24

Died at Debarkation Hospital No. 5, New York City, N. Y., on June 15, 1919.

Buried at Tolley, N. Dak.

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

Andor Christian Nelson photo 1919

Andor Christian Nelson

Fort Ransom, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 12th Company, 3rd Training Battalion, 151st Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: April 01, 1919 / Age: 24

Died at Camp Devens, Mass., on April 1, 1919.

Buried at Fort Ransom, N. Dak.

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

Homer Pearl Johnson photo 1919

Pvt. Homer Pearl Johnson

Carson, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: January 11, 1919 / Age: 26

Died of diphtheria, at Embarkation Hospital, Newport News, Va., on Jan. 11, 1919.

Buried at Carson, N. Dak.

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

Tom A. Shirek photo 1919

Tom A. Shirek

Lankin, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company I, 139th Infantry

Date of Loss: February 11, 1919 / Age: 23

Died of scarlet fever, on Feb. 11, 1919.

Buried, Grave 14, Row 12, Block D, St. Mihiel American Cemetery, Thiaucourt, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France.

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

Harry Merton Hardy photo 1919

Pvt. Harry Merton Hardy

Bernstad [sic] (possibly Burnstad), ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 1st Field Signal Battalion

Date of Loss: February 22, 1919 / Age: 30

Died of pneumonia on Feb. 22, 1919, at Coblenz, Germany.

Gordon Harold Powers photo 1919

Pvt.1st Class Gordon Harold Powers

World War I

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.

Frederick Garfield Baker photo 1919

Frederick Garfield Baker

World War I

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.

Floyd Fredric Young photo 1919

Seaman 2c Floyd Fredric Young

Neche, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Navy

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: USS New Mexico

Date of Loss: April 20, 1919 / Age: 24

Died on USS New Mexico, at New York, N. Y., on April 20, 1919.

Buried at Neche, N. Dak.

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

Orville Taylor Haughtelin photo 1919

Farrier Orville Taylor Haughtelin

Starkweather, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: February 18, 1919 / Age: 24

Died of heart failure at Neuf Chateau, France, on Feb. 18, 1919.

Buried, Grave 4, Row 41, Block D, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

Jacob Ben Fisher photo 1919

Jacob Ben Fisher

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company L, 349th Infantry

Date of Loss: March 19, 1919 / Age: 24

Died at Camp Upton, N. Y., on March 19, 1919.

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

Information found in Volume 1, page 918 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Lewis D. Weeks photo 1919

Pvt.1st Class Lewis D. Weeks

World War I

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).

Nora Emile Anderson photo 1919

Nurse Nora Emile Anderson

World War I

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.

Charles Karl Nielson photo 1919

Charles Karl Nielson

World War I

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.