State Heroes Total:
3932
Service Branch

World War I

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.

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.

Edwin Herman Witcik photo 1919

Pvt. Edwin Herman Witcik

Fargo, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: January 17, 1919 / Age: 25

Died of broncho pneumonia, Jan. 17, 1919.

Buried in Grave 468, Cemetery 6, Bazailles sur Meuse, France. Remains returned to U. S. May 31, 1921, and buried in Springvale Cemetery, three miles north of Fargo, N. Dak.

Gilbert Collins Grafton photo 1919

Lt. Col. Gilbert Collins Grafton

South Fargo, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: US Army Air Service School

Date of Loss: February 05, 1919 / Age: 58

Died at Camp Hospital No. 24, AEF, on Feb. 5, 1919.

Buried, Grave 6, Row 9. Block B, St. Mihiel American Cemetery, Thiaucourt, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France.

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

Anton Labolewich photo 1919

Anton Labolewich

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Medical Detachment

Date of Loss: January 22, 1919 / Age: 23

Died of influenza on Jan. 22, 1919.

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

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.

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.

Clarence Philip Hickner photo 1919

AS Clarence Philip Hickner

World War I

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.

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.

Lemuel Morgan Wells photo 1919

Lemuel Morgan Wells

Cando, ND

World War I

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.

Frank Lucas Schanilec photo 1919

Pvt. Frank Lucas Schanilec

Vesleyville, ND

World War I

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.

William LaFayette Cowper photo 1919

1st Lt. William LaFayette Cowper

Grand Forks, ND

World War I

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.

Horace Albert Tanner photo 1919

Horace Albert Tanner

Danville, IL

World War I

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.

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.

Fred Otis Cooper photo 1919

Private Fred Otis Cooper

Lidgerwood, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company L, 350th Infantry

Date of Loss: June 28, 1919 / Age: 25

Died at St. Elizabeth's Hospital, Washington, D. C., on June 28, 1919.

Buried in Movius Cemetery, Lidgerwood, N. Dak.

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