State Heroes
World War I (WWI)
1918
Harry Pederson
Rutland, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 78th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 16, 1918 / Age: 24
Died of pneumonia at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 16, 1918.
Buried at Rutland, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Carl Solvsberg
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company L, 360th Infantry
Date of Loss: November 02, 1918 / Age: 24
Killed in action on Nov. 2, 1918.
Buried, Grave 6, Row 43, Block A, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Walter M. Severson
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Quartermaster Corps
Date of Loss: October 07, 1918 / Age: 23
Died at Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D. C., on Oct. 7, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt.1st Class Lloyd William Spetz
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: March 01, 1918 / Age: 23
Killed in action, March 1, 1918.
Buried, Grave 6, Row 12, Block B, St. Mihiel American Cemetery, Thiaucourt, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Private Earl Laverne Kneeland
Winnebago, MN
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D
Date of Loss: November 12, 1918 / Age: 24
Died of pneumonia, on Nov. 12, 1918.
Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on Aug. 1, 1921, and buried at Winnebago, Minn.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
August Bernhard Shellburg
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: June 09, 1918 / Age: 29
Killed in action on June 9, 1918.
Buried, Grave 6, Row 15, Block D, Somme American Cemetery, Bony, Aisne, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND as Gust Shellburg.
1918
Frederick A. Roskam
Cyrus, MN
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery B, 42nd Field Artillery
Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 27
Died of broncho pneumonia, on Oct. 10, 1918.
Buried at Cyrus, Minn.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Knute Olson
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company I
Date of Loss: March 01, 1918 / Age: 33
Killed in action on March 1, 1918.
Buried in Grave 23, Row 14, Block B, St. Mihiel American Cemetery, Thiaucourt, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Private John Jacobson
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: 21
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
1918
Corporal George Murdock Bissett
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B
Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent:4th Division
Date of Loss: October 07, 1918 / Age: 29
Killed in action at Argonne, France, on Oct. 7, 1918.
Buried in Grave 16, Row 5, Block D, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
1918
Christian Martin Festvog
Landa, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company No. 1, Fort Leavenworth September Automatic Replacement Draft
Date of Loss: October 09, 1918 / Age: 25
Died of pneumonia, at St. Nazaire, France, on Oct. 9, 1918.
Buried in Base Cemetery 21, Grave 754, Plot G. Remains returned to U. S. on Sept. 22, 1920, and buried at Landa, N. Dak.
1918
Pvt. Carl M. Johnson
Milton, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 58th Infantry Regiment, 4th Division
Date of Loss: October 06, 1918 / Age: 28
Died in an accident. Killed in action on Oct. 6, 1918.
Buried, Grave 34, Row 46, Block C, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Edward Sutherland
Grand Forks, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery A, 1st Battalion, Field Artillery, Replacement Draft, Camp Zachary Taylor, Ky.
Date of Loss: October 06, 1918 / Age: 20
Died of influenza broncho pneumonia, on Oct. 6, 1918.
Buried at Grand Forks, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Cook Frank Coleman
Lancaster, MN
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 58th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 02, 1918 / Age: 24
Killed in action on Oct. 2, 1918.
Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on Oct. 18, 1921, and buried at Lancaster, Minn.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Private Charles William Beck
Hot Springs, AR
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company I
Date of Loss: July 18, 1918 / Age: 24
Killed in action at Soissons, France, on July 18, 1918.
Buried, Grave 2, Row 36, Block A, Oise-Aisne American Cemetery, Seringes-et-Nesles, Aisne, France.
1918
Cook Rudolph Chloupek
Mahnomen, MN
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company L, 359th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 30, 1918 / Age: 29
Died on Oct. 30, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Buried in American Cemetery, Senoncourt, Meuse, France; reburied at Mahnomen, Minn.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.