FALLEN
World War I
1918
Willis O. Gish
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 8th Ammunition Train
Date of Loss: July 14, 1918 / Age: 28
Murdered - strangulation - on July 14, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 2, page 1060 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Pvt. Osmer James Leigh
Royalton, MNWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 58th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 22, 1918 / Age: 24
Died of pneumonia on Sept. 22, 1918.
Remains returned to U. S. on Nov. 10, 1920, and consigned to J. E. Leigh, Royalton, Minn. (place of burial not given).
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Lieutenant Colonel Frederick E. Smith
Rockford, IL
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 308th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 29, 1918 / Age: 45
When communication from the forward regimental post of command to the battalion leading the advance had been interrupted temporarily, by the infiltration of small parties of the enemy armed with machine guns, Lieutenant-Colonel Smith personally led a p
1918
1st Lt. Thomas Lyle Russell
Minneapolis, MNWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 47th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 23
Killed in action on Oct. 4, 1918, at Bois de Brieulles.
Buried, Cemetery No. 735, Bois de Brieulles.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Preston George McGarry
Willow City, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: School for Bakers and Cooks, Camp Custer, Mich.
Date of Loss: October 09, 1918 / Age: 24
Died of pneumonia at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 9, 1918.
Buried at Willow City, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Leete Gladstone Van Syckle
Grand Forks, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 53rd Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 05, 1918 / Age: 26
Died of influenza pneumonia at Camp Hancock, Ga., on Oct. 5, 1918.
Buried at Grand Forks, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Seaman 2c George Arlington Hill
Ardoch, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Navy
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Naval Training Station, Seattle, Wash.
Date of Loss: October 13, 1918 / Age: 25
Died of pneumonia at Seattle, Wash., on Oct. 13, 1918.
Buried at Ardoch, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
George F. Haider
St. Anthony, ND
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company No. 1
Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent:77th Infantry Division
Date of Loss: October 06, 1918 / Age: 26
Died of the Spanish Flu of October 6, 1918.
Information found in Volume 2, page 1177 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
August Toreson
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 161st Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 03, 1918 / Age: 22
Died on Oct. 3, 1918, of pneumonia.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 4, page 3265 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Fred Meidinger
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, Development Battalion No. 1
Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 11, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 3, page 2127 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Edward Philip O'Malley
Woodland, WIWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 128th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 01, 1918 / Age: 29
Killed in action on Oct. 1, 1918.
Buried in Grave 37, Row 17, Block H, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Maj. Frank Leland Shuman
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 309th Field Signal Battalion, Company B
Date of Loss: October 19, 1918 / Age: 38
Died at Camp Hospital No. 54, France, Oct. 19, 1918.
Buried Oct. 20, 1918, Cemetery No. 87, Grave 793, Perijuex, Dordogne, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
John Joseph Schindler
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company L, 139th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 24
Died on Oct. 4, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Buried, Grave 26, Row 11, Block C, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
1918
William Clyde Robinson
Vernon, WVWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 39th Regiment, Transportation Corps
Date of Loss: November 12, 1918 / Age: 24
Died, as a result of being struck by train, on Nov. 12, 1918.
Remains returned to U. S. on Feb. 15, 1921, and buried in Robinson Cemetery, Vernon, W. Va.
Name NOT included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
William Emanuel Olsen
Minneapolis, MNWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters Company, 54th Pioneer Infantry
Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 30
Died in France, on Oct. 4, 1918.
Buried in Argonne-American Cemetery.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.