State Heroes
World War I (WWI)
1918
Pvt. Alvie Elmore
Mekinock, 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.
1918
Cpl. Elmer F. Rushfeldt
De Groat, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 137th Machine Gun Battalion
Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 28
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 14, 1918.
Buried at sea.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt.1st Class George Harold Kuhn
Beach, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 164th Ambulance Company, 116th Sanitary Train
Date of Loss: August 21, 1918 / Age: 26
Killed in action on Aug. 21, 1918.
Buried, Grave 39, Row 35, 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
Joseph P. Passett
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 Elmer Ben Winters
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 20, 1918 / Age: 26
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 Prairie View Cemetery, Barnes County, North Dakota.
1918
Cpl. Joseph Wilbur Hemrick
Volga, SD
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery A, 40th Field Artillery
Date of Loss: October 16, 1918 / Age: 27
Died of pneumonia at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 16, 1918.
Buried at Volga, S. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Joseph A. Tandberg
Northwood`, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Students Army Training Corps
Date of Loss: November 25, 1918 / Age: 18
Died of pneumonia, at Northfield, Minn., on Nov. 25, 1918.
Buried, Northwood, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt.1st Class Richard Jonathon Carlson
Derrick, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 352nd Infantry
Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of pneumonia, on Oct. 10, 1918.
Remains returned to U. S. on June 6, 1921, and consigned to P. T. Carlson, Parkers Prairie, Minn. (place of burial not given).
1918
Sigurbjorn Davidson
Gardar, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 34th Company, 161st Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 08, 1918 / Age: 21
Died at Camp Grant, Ill., on Oct. 8, 1918.
Buried at Gardar, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND under Pembina county.
1918
Cpl. Philip Edward Joos
Jamestown, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 139th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 29, 1918 / Age: 28
Killed in action on Sept. 29, 1918.
Remains returned to U. S. on Oct. 17, 1921, and buried at Jamestown, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND under Mercer and Stutsman counties.
1918
Albert Wermedahl
Hatton, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company G, 5th Limited Service Regiment, Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 05, 1918 / Age: 27
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 5, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 4, page 3429 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Pvt.1st Class Philip M. Paulson
Kenyon, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company L, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: July 23, 1918 / Age: 20
Died on July 23, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on Aug. 29, 1921, and buried at Kenyon, Minn.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt. Julian Olander Berg
Davenport, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 34th Company, Camp MacArthur, Texas, September Automatic Replacement Draft
Date of Loss: October 09, 1918 / Age: 28
Died of broncho pneumonia, at Kerhuon, France, on Oct. 9, 1918.
Buried in American Cemetery No. 531, Lambezellec, France. Remains returned to U. S. on July 15, 1920, and buried at Davenport, N. Dak.
1918
Clyde Verdi Claflin
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Navy
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Dunwoody Naval Training Institute
Date of Loss: October 07, 1918 / Age: 20
Died at Minneapolis, Minn., on Oct. 7, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 1, page 562 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Pvt. Jacob G. Heppner
Langdon, 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.
1918
George Chell
Centre City, MN
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery E, 338th Field Artillery
Date of Loss: February 19, 1918 / Age: 29
Died of pneumonia on Feb. 19, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 1, page 537 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.