State Heroes
World War I (WWI)
1918
Roy Alfred Dingman
Oelwein, IA
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Troop E, 7th Cavalry, Fort Bliss, Texas
Date of Loss: October 18, 1918 / Age: 21
Died of pneumonia at Fort Bliss, Texas, on Oct. 18, 1918.
Buried at Oelwein, Iowa.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Corporal Cecil Claude Smith
Tunnel City, WI
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D,
Date of Loss: January 04, 1918 / Age: 25
Died of pneumonia, at Noyers, France, on Jan. 4, 1918.
Buried, Grave 27, Row 18, Block C, Oise-Aisne American Cemetery, Seringes-et-Nesles, Aisne, France.
Name included on the All-Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Cpl. Oscar D. Keene
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company I, 47th Infantry
Date of Loss: August 04, 1918 / Age: 23
Killed in action on Aug. 4, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 2, page 1638 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Pvt. Eugene Victor Evans
Mott, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 313th Ammunition Trains, 88th Division
Date of Loss: October 17, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of pneumonia, at Herricourt, France, on Oct. 17, 1918.
Buried, Grave 6, Row 5, Block F, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
1918
John Raaen
World War I (WWI)
Date of Loss: November 11, 1918 / Age:
Name NOT 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.
1918
Pvt.1st Class Melvin Wisness
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 2nd Field Battalion, Signal Corps
Date of Loss: December 07, 1918 / Age: 31
Died on Dec. 7, 1918, of pneumonia.
Buried, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
John William Kendrew
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters Company, 42nd Field Artillery
Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 26
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 10, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 2, page 1655 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Adolph R. Pechlat
Wahpeton, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery B 41st Field Artillery
Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 25
Died of Broncho pneumonia at Camp Custer Michigan on October 11, 1918. Buried at St. Joseph's Cemetery, Brushvale, Minnesota.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Sgt. Ross Reuben Chapman
Hanover, IL
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company G, 30th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 21
Killed in action at Meuse-Argonne, on Oct. 10, 1918.
Remains returned to U. S., Sept. 7, 1921, and buried at Hanover, Ill.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
HA1/c Ernest Oliver Myhre
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Navy
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Naval Training Station, San Francisco, Calif.
Date of Loss: July 27, 1918 / Age: 26
Died at Naval Training Station, San Francisco, Calif., on July 27, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Private First Class Frank James Ziegeweid
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: July 18, 1918 / Age: 20
Killed in action, near Soissons, on July 18, 1918.
Remains returned to U. S. on Jan. 15, 1921, and buried in Grave 1162, National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
1918
Henry H. Kraemer
West Union, MN
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 131st Infantry
Date of Loss: August 11, 1918 / Age: 25
Killed in action, on Aug. 11, 1918.
Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on Dec. 28, 1920, and buried at West Union, Minn.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Benjamin Emanuel Lawrence
Courtenay, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 306th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 26, 1918 / Age: 26
Killed in action on Sept. 26, 1918.
Grave unlocated.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt. Carl Hildenbrand
Ashley, ND
World War I (WWI)
Date of Loss: November 11, 1918 / Age:
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND as Karl Hildenbrand.
Information NOT found in the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
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.
1918
Cpl. Albert Smith
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 16th Infantry
Date of Loss: July 19, 1918 / Age: 27
Killed in action on July 19, 1918.
Buried, Grave 20, Row 33, Block D, Oise-Aisne American Cemetery, Seringes-et-Nesles, Aisne, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.