State Heroes
World War I (WWI)
1918
Abel A. Peters
Mapleton, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Coast Artillery Corps, Unassigned, Fort McDowell
Date of Loss: March 26, 1918 / Age: 31
Died of pneumonia on March 26, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 3, page 2530 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Stephen Swanson
Valley City, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 160th Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of broncho pneumonia, at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 14, 1918.
Buried at Valley City, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND as Stephan Swanson.
1918
Seaman 2c Frank Freeburg
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Navy
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: USS Solace
Date of Loss: January 08, 1918 / Age: 22
Died at Naval Hospital, Norfolk, Va., on Jan. 8, 1918, as a Seaman 2nd Class.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Private Friedrich F. Marzolf
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Student Army Training Corps UND Grand Forks ND
Date of Loss: October 18, 1918 / Age: 22
Died while serving as a member of the Student Army Training Corps on the UND campus in Grand Forks during the 1918 flu pandemic. Name included on the UND S.A.T.C. website
Buried at Kramer Cemetery, Bottineau County, North Dakota.
1918
Pvt. Joseph William Bouret
Sheyenne, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: May 27, 1918 / Age: 25
Killed in action on May 27, 1918.
Buried in Grave 14, Row 17, Block C, Somme American Cemetery, Bony, Aisne, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND as Joe W Bouret.
1918
Pvt.1st Class Gunwald Ottoson
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Medical Department, General Hospital No. 20
Date of Loss: November 10, 1918 / Age: 28
Died of pneumonia on Nov. 10, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND under Traill county.
1918
George William Koth
Sheyenne, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 53rd Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of pneumonia, at Camp Hancock, Ga., on Oct. 4, 1918.
Buried at Sheyenne, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt.1st Class John Mitchell
Red Butte, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Medical Department
Date of Loss: October 05, 1918 / Age: 25
Died of pneumonia, at Camp Sevier, S. C., on Oct. 5, 1918.
Buried at Red Butte, Oliver county, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt. John Paul Bauer
Hankinson, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company I, 138th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 28, 1918 / Age: 23
Killed in action, on Sept. 28, 1918.
Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on July 25, 1921, and buried at Hankinson, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Fireman 3c Adolphus James Thibert
St. John, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Navy
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: USS Lakemore
Date of Loss: April 11, 1918 / Age: 33
Drowned on April 11, 1918, when American Steamship Lakemore was torpedoed by an enemy submarine.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND under Williams county.
1918
Cpl. Alvin Theodore Larson
Ashby, MN
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery C, 335th Field Artillery
Date of Loss: January 27, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of pneumonia at Camp Pike, Ark., on Jan. 27, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
John Findlay Ramage
Langdon, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 465th Motor Truck Company, 417th Motor Truck Service
Date of Loss: September 22, 1918 / Age: 20
Died of pneumonia, near Neufchateau, France, on Sept. 22, 1918.
Buried in American Military Cemetery Neufchateau, France. Remains returned to U. S. on May 31, 1921, and buried in Lebanon Cemetery, Langdon, N. Dak.
1918
Thorsten Emanual Nikkila
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 140th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 24, 1918 / Age: 27
Died on Oct. 24, 1918, of disease.
Buried, Grave 32, Row 12, Block A, St. Mihiel American Cemetery, Thiaucourt, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Martin Olof Ruud
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 343rd Machine Gun Battalion
Date of Loss: November 01, 1918 / Age: 31
Killed in action on Nov. 1, 1918.
Buried, Grave 18, Row 41, Block D, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt.1st Class William A. Fry
Stampede, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: July 19, 1918 / Age: 50
Killed in action at Chateau-Thierry, France, on July 19, 1918.
Buried, Grave 11, Row 13, Block D, Oise-Aisne American Cemetery, Seringes-et-Nesles, Aisne, France.
1918
Bert M. Johnson
Penn, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company I, 308th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 08, 1918 / Age: 25
Killed in action, at Argonne Forest on Oct. 8, 1918.
Buried in Grave 3, Section 94, Plot No. 1, Argonne-American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.