State Heroes

Pvt. Ingvald Gjertson

Wolford, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

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

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

Died on Oct. 13, 1918, of wounds received in action.

Buried in American Cemetery, Bozoilles, Vosges, France. Remains returned to Norway, and consigned to Mrs. Arma Rosindrson Gjertson, Raranger, Norway. (place of burial not given).

Kart H Erickson

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.

Pvt. Harry E. Lean Elk

Porcupine, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company No. 2, 138th Infantry

Date of Loss: June 17, 1918 / Age: 23

Died of broncho pneumonia in England on June 17, 1918.

Buried in England. Reburied in the Porcupine Cemetery, Sioux county, N. Dak., on Sept. 25, 1920.

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

Pvt. Theodore H. Kruse

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: July 19, 1918 / Age: 32

Missing in Action or Buried at Sea.

Killed in action on July 19, 1918.

Grave unlocated. Tablets of the Missing at Aisne-Marne American Cemetery, Belleau, France.

Pvt. John Andrew Carlson

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 359th Infantry Regiment, 90th Division

Date of Loss: September 13, 1918 / Age: 28

Killed in action on Sept. 13, 1918.

Buried Grave 14, Row 24, Block D, St. Mihiel American Cemetery, Thiaucourt, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France

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

Pvt. Garrett Hobart Jones

Bantry, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 335th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 22

Died at Vauclaire, France, of broncho pneumonia, on Oct. 12, 1918.

Buried at Vauclaire, France.

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

Cpl. William R. Floyd

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 356th Infantry

Date of Loss: November 17, 1918 / Age: 24

Died of pneumonia, on Nov. 17, 1918.

Remains returned to U. S. on Feb. 18, 1921, and consigned to G. W. Floyd, West Plains, Mo. (place of burial not given).

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

Alvin O. Kvenshagen

Northwood, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 23rd Infantry

Date of Loss: October 02, 1918 / Age: 22

Killed in action, at Mont Blanc Ridge, Champagne Sector, on Oct. 2, 1918.

Arthur Lyson

Hankinson, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: September 28, 1918 / Age: 24

Killed in action on Sept. 28, 1918.

Buried in Grave 17, Row 41, Block G, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Earl Alfred Smith

Greenville, IL

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 6th Engineers Trains

Date of Loss: October 30, 1918 / Age: 26

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 30, 1918.

Buried, Grave 22, Row 18, Block A, St. Mihiel American Cemetery, Thiaucourt, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France.

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

Marion Ellis Tedrow

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 53rd Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: October 06, 1918 / Age: 22

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 3194 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Peter Semevolos

Butte, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: July 06, 1918 / Age: 26

Killed in action on July 6, 1918.

Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on May 31, 1921, and buried at Butte, N. Dak.

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

Philipp Muller

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 06, 1918 / Age: 26

Died of pneumonia, on Oct. 6, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 3, page 2244 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Cpl. Howard B. Bean

Oakes, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: July 22, 1918 / Age: 29

Died on July 22, 1918, of wounds received in action.

Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on Aug. 29, 1921, and consigned to Livingston Bean, Oakes, N. Dak. (Place of burial unknown).

Lyle Eugene Giffen

Glencoe, MN

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Training Detachment, Army Air Service Mechanics School

Date of Loss: December 06, 1918 / Age: 19

Died of pneumonia, at St. Paul, Minn., on Dec. 6, 1918.

Buried at Glencoe, Minn.

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

Harry Wilber Waddle

Curtis, OK

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 23rd Infantry

Date of Loss: October 06, 1918 / Age: 23

Killed in action on Oct. 6, 1918.

Buried, Grave 28, Row 30, Block E, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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