State Heroes

Horace Mann Jones Jr.

Fargo, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Medical Department

Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 18

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 12, 1918.

Buried at Fargo, N. Dak.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

Cpl. Virgil Raymond Erickson

Devils Lake, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 164th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 02, 1918 / Age: 25

Killed in action on Oct. 2, 1918.

Buried in France. Reburied in Kato township, Ramsey county, N. Dak.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

Melvin Ostby

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 303rd Mechanics Repair Shop, Motor Transport Corps

Date of Loss: November 17, 1918 / Age: 22

Died of pneumonia on Nov. 17, 1918.

Buried in Grave 34, Row 11, Block A, St. Mihiel American Cemetery, Thiaucourt, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

John Windon

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.

Barney Kartenson

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Aviation Section, Signal Corps

Date of Loss: February 17, 1918 / Age: 21

Died of pneumonia, on Feb. 17, 1918.

Name NOT included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

Information found in Volume 2, page 1630 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Norvald Larson

Grafton, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Machine Gun Company, 158th Infantry

Date of Loss: December 01, 1918 / Age: 21

Died of broncho pneumonia, at US Camp Hospital No. 4, Army Postoffice No. 702, France, on Dec. 1, 1918.

Buried, Grave 14, Row 17, Block B, Suresnes, Seine, France.

Albert Vaughn

Vestaburg, MI

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company I (Wahpeton), 1st North Dakota Infantry Regt

Date of Loss: November 03, 1918 / Age: 30

Died on November 3, 1918 of wounds received in action. Remains returned to US on January 3, 1921 and buried at Vestaburg Michigan.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

Pvt. Edgar Roy Chandler

Gardner, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 164th Infantry

Date of Loss: May 09, 1918 / Age: 23

Killed in action on May 9, 1918.

Buried in Grave No. 6, Row 7, Block D, Somme American Cemetery, Bony, Aisne, France.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

August Minnie

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company G, 164th Infantry

Date of Loss: July 21, 1918 / Age: 27

Killed in action on July 21, 1918.

Buried, Grave 16, Row 29, Block C, Oise-Aisne American Cemetery, Seringes-et-Nesles, Aisne, France.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

Pvt.1st Class Harley Edgar Wallace

Tomah, WI

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company K, 164th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 09, 1918 / Age: 19

Killed in Meuse-Argonne on Oct. 9, 1918.

Buried, Tomah, Wis.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND under Golden Valley county.

Pvt.1st Class Ambrose Soren Knudson

Sturgeon Bay, WI

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company F, 164th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 31, 1918 / Age: 22

Killed in action, Oct. 31, 1918.

Buried, Gave 32, Row 6, Block E, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

Joseph G. Kachel

Fried, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 22nd Company, 6th Battalion, 160th Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 28

Died of pneumonia, at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 11, 1918.

Buried at Fried, N. Dak.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

Pvt. Oscar Hilden

Ellendale, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company M, 137th Infantry

Date of Loss: September 29, 1918 / Age: 23

Killed in action, on Sept. 29, 1918.

Buried in Grave 11, Row 21, Block D, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

Theodore Werre

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 306th Animal Transport Depot

Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 24

Died of pneumonia, on Oct. 11, 1918.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

Information found in Volume 4, page 3430 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Martin A. Tofte

Springbrook, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 53rd Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: October 03, 1918 / Age: 23

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 3, 1918, at Camp Hancock, Ga.

Buried, Springbrook, N. Dak.