State Heroes

Corporal Henry Hafener

Mooreton, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Machine Gun Company, 77th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 13, 1918 / Age: 23

Died of broncho pneumonia at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 13, 1918.

Buried at Mooreton, N. Dak.

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

Leo A. Schinzel

Coeur d' Alene, ID

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 362nd Infantry

Date of Loss: December 07, 1918 / Age: 25

Died of spinal meningitis, on Dec. 7, 1918.

Remains returned to U. S. on May 11, 1921, and buried in St. Thomas Catholic Cemetery, Coeur d' Alene, Idaho.

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

Fred Schmuhl

Jamestown, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 10th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 31

Died of pneumonia, at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 14, 1918.

Buried at Jamestown, N. Dak.

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

Pvt. Sevrin Bourk

Sykeston, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 1st Army Headquarters Regiment

Date of Loss: November 18, 1918 / Age: 22

Killed by prisoner when making an arrest as a Military Police, on Nov. 18, 1918, at La Harve, France.

Buried, Grave 10, Row 19, Block B, Somme American Cemetery, Bony, Aisne, France.

Pvt. John R. Holdaas

Bottineau, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company I, 140th Infantry

Date of Loss: September 26, 1918 / Age: 29

Killed in action on Sept. 26, 1918.

Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on Aug. 8, 1921, and buried at Bottineau, N. Dak.

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

James Judson Roberts

Granite Falls, MN

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery C

Date of Loss: November 03, 1918 / Age: 24

Died of pneumonia, on Nov. 3, 1918.

Buried, Grave 14, Row 24, Block A, St. Mihiel American Cemetery, Thiaucourt, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France.

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

S2c Emil M. Dvorak

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Navy

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa

Date of Loss: September 28, 1918 / Age: 24

Died in Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa., on Sept. 28, 1918, as a Seaman 2nd Class.

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

Private Albert Grass

Cannon Ball, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A

Date of Loss: July 18, 1918 / Age: 22

Killed in action at Soissons-Paris Road, July 18, 1918. His company was entrenched along the Paris, Soissons Road south of the Chemin de Dames and he volunteered to get some water for his buddies.

John N. Tweten

Brocket, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: April 20, 1918 / Age: 43

Died of septicaemia, on April 20, 1918.

Remains returned to U. S. on May 31, 1921, and consigned to Otto Tweten, Brocket, N. Dak. (place of burial not given).

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

Samuel Skoien

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.

Joseph Sherman, Jr.

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent:8th Brigade

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent:4th Division (Regular)

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

Drowned on May 23, 1918, in the sinking of the Moldavia.

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

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.

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.

Pvt. C. E. Clark

Branch of Service: Army

Date of Loss: July 18, 1918 / Age: