State Heroes
World War I (WWI)
1918
Clarence Gerhard Evingson
Kindred, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters Company, 317th Field Signal Battalion
Date of Loss: February 25, 1918 / Age: 22
Died of diphtheria, Camp Devens, Mass., on Feb. 25, 1918.
Buried, Kindred, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt.1st Class Erick Ofstad
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company F, 359th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 26, 1918 / Age: 27
Killed in action on Sept. 26, 1918.
Grave unlocated.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Christ Sorlee
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Supply Company, 78th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 18, 1918 / Age: 26
Died of pneumonia at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 18, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt. Helmer Ellenson
Gardiner [sic] (possibly Gardner or Gardiner, MT), ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 138th Infantry Regiment, 35th Division
Date of Loss: September 30, 1918 / Age: 23
Died on Sept. 30, 1918, of wounds received in Meuse-Argonne Offensive.
Buried, Grave 34, Row 18, Block F, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
1918
Harold George Peck
Roy, SD
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company F, 113th Supply Train
Date of Loss: October 16, 1918 / Age: 28
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 16, 1918.
Buried at sea.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt. Leonard M. Kubousek
Minto, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company No. 2, Fort Leavenworth September Automatic Replacement Draft, Signal Corps
Date of Loss: October 17, 1918 / Age: 18
Died of pneumonia, on Oct. 17, 1918.
Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on Oct. 6, 1920, and buried at Minto, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Private John William Ramsey
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
George Ratzloff
World War I (WWI)
Date of Loss: November 11, 1918 / Age:
Name 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
Forest T. D. Hume
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: July 18, 1918 / Age: 18
Killed in action on July 18, 1918, Soissons, France.
Buried in Grave No. 33, Row 26, 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
Lars Olai Ovrevik
Creston, IL
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company I, 352nd Infantry
Date of Loss: October 25, 1918 / Age: 27
Died of pneumonia, Oct. 25, 1918.
Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on Sept. 28, 1922, and buried at Creston, Ill.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt. Roland Whitie Jones
Kramer, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 352nd Infantry Regiment, 88th Division
Date of Loss: October 02, 1918 / Age: 27
Died of pneumonia, on Oct. 2, 1918.
Buried in Grave 2, Row 9, Block F, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Gust W. Martinson
World War I (WWI)
Date of Loss: November 11, 1918 / Age:
Name 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
Lauritz Vangerud
Kindred, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 14th Company, 4th Battalion, 163rd Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: August 04, 1918 / Age: 29
Died at Camp Dodge, Iowa, on Aug. 4, 1918.
Buried, Christiania Cemetery, Kindred, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Emil Sadek
Powers Lake, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery A, 42nd Field Artillery
Date of Loss: October 20, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of spinal meningitis at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 20, 1918.
Buried, Powers Lake, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Ralph Mann
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company I, 308th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 28
Killed in action on Oct. 12, 1918.
Buried at Verdun, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt. B. Benson
Wildrose, ND
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.