State Heroes
World War I (WWI)
1918
Raymond B. Thorn
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 05, 1918 / Age: 19
Killed in action on Oct. 5, 1918.
Buried, Grave 31, Row 38, Block D, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
AS John Adolph Singer
Mercer, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Navy
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Naval Hospital, Great Lakes, Ill.
Date of Loss: September 22, 1918 / Age: 20
Died at Great Lakes, Ill., on Sept. 22, 1918.
Buried at Mercer, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Frederick Olson
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
Private Paul James Gates
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 21, 1918 / Age: 20
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 Garrison Cemetery, McLean County, North Dakota.
1918
Pvt. John Isable
Drayton, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 359th Infantry Regiment, 90th Division
Date of Loss: September 26, 1918 / Age: 24
Killed in action on Sept. 26, 1918.
Grave unlocated. Missing in Action or Buried at Sea. Tablets of the Missing, St. Mihiel American Cemetery, Thiaucourt, France.
Pvt. Benjamin Franklin Clark
Brainerd, MN
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Machine Gun Company, 23rd Infantry
Date of Loss: October 03, 1918 / Age: 30
Killed in action on Oct. 3, 1918.
Remains returned to U. S., Sept. 19, 1921, and buried at Brainerd, Minn.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Freeman L. Gravley
Sargent, MN
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company L, 40th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 03, 1918 / Age: 22
Died of broncho pneumonia on Oct. 3, 1918, at Camp Custer, Mich.
Buried at Sargent, Minn.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Austin Fortune
Wheaton, MN
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Medical Department
Date of Loss: June 27, 1918 / Age: 29
Died at Fort Riley, Kans., on June 27, 1918.
Buried at Wheaton, Minn.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
John W. Lucas
Parkston, SD
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Supply Company, 40th Field Artillery
Date of Loss: October 20, 1918 / Age: 26
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 20, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 3, page 1947 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Joseph J. Taylor
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 313th Ordnance Mobile Repair Shop
Date of Loss: February 15, 1918 / Age: 24
Died on Feb. 15, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 4, page 3192 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
Private First Class Henry Adolph Anderson
Minot, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: July 19, 1918 / Age: 27
Killed in action on July 19, 1918.
Buried in France. Reburied at Minot, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Pvt. Samuel Earl Hamilton
Plaza, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company K, 326th Infantry
Date of Loss: August 04, 1918 / Age: 28
Killed in action on Aug. 4, 1918.
Remains returned to U. S. on July 14, 1921, and buried in Elm Grove Cemetery, Bluffton, Ind.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Arthur Walter Peterson
Lucy Township, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 78th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 18, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of pneumonia, on Oct. 18, 1918, at Camp Custer, Mich.
Buried, Lucy Township, Burke county, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Pvt.1st Class Gordon Marshal Lindgren
Cooperstown
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: July 20, 1918 / Age: 23
Killed in action on July 20, 1918.
Remains returned to U. S. on May 13, 1921, and buried at Cooperstown, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Fred Shephard
Hensel, ND
World War I (WWI)
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company L, 23rd Infantry
Date of Loss: September 13, 1918 / Age: 26
Killed in action on Sept. 13, 1918.
Remains returned to U. S. Aug. 4, 1921, and buried in Grave 1986, European Section, National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
Lyle Porter Cunningham
Kenmare, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Detachment No. 3, 64th Spruce Squadron
Date of Loss: July 30, 1918 / Age: 24
Drowned at Aberdeen, Wash., on July 30, 1918.
Buried, Kenmare, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.