State Heroes
World War I (WWI)
Abel A. Peters
Mapleton, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Coast Artillery Corps, Unassigned, Fort McDowell
Date of Loss: March 26, 1918 / Age: 31
Died of pneumonia on March 26, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 3, page 2530 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Private Friedrich F. Marzolf
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 18, 1918 / Age: 22
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 Kramer Cemetery, Bottineau County, North Dakota.
Arthur Carl Rosenburg
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 137th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 28, 1918 / Age: 29
Killed in action in Argonne Forest on Sept. 28, 1918.
Grave unlocated.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Clyde D. Axtell
Elgin, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery B, 336th Field Artillery
Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent:336th Field Artillery
Date of Loss: January 10, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of broncho pneumonia, at Camp Pike, Ark., on Jan. 10, 1918.
Buried at Elgin, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt. Joseph William Bouret
Sheyenne, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: May 27, 1918 / Age: 25
Killed in action on May 27, 1918.
Buried in Grave 14, Row 17, Block C, Somme American Cemetery, Bony, Aisne, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND as Joe W Bouret.
Pvt.1st Class Gunwald Ottoson
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Medical Department, General Hospital No. 20
Date of Loss: November 10, 1918 / Age: 28
Died of pneumonia on Nov. 10, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND under Traill county.
1918
John George Nuestel
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 110th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 28, 1918 / Age: 26
Killed in action on Sept. 28, 1918.
Buried, Grave 27, Row 21, Block B, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
1918
Pvt. John Paul Bauer
Hankinson, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company I, 138th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 28, 1918 / Age: 23
Killed in action, on Sept. 28, 1918.
Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on July 25, 1921, and buried at Hankinson, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Fireman 3c Adolphus James Thibert
St. John, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Navy
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: USS Lakemore
Date of Loss: April 11, 1918 / Age: 33
Drowned on April 11, 1918, when American Steamship Lakemore was torpedoed by an enemy submarine.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND under Williams county.
Cpl. Alvin Theodore Larson
Ashby, MN
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery C, 335th Field Artillery
Date of Loss: January 27, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of pneumonia at Camp Pike, Ark., on Jan. 27, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Martin Olof Ruud
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 343rd Machine Gun Battalion
Date of Loss: November 01, 1918 / Age: 31
Killed in action on Nov. 1, 1918.
Buried, Grave 18, Row 41, 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
Jacob Miller
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company K, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 08, 1918 / Age: 28
Killed in action on Oct. 8, 1918.
Buried, Grave 29, Row 9, Block C, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Sgt. George A. Potel
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 16, 1918 / Age: 20
Died, Sept. 16, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Buried, Grave 6, Row 3, Block C, St. Mihiel American Cemetery, Thiaucourt, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France.
1918
Pvt.1st Class William A. Fry
Stampede, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: July 19, 1918 / Age: 50
Killed in action at Chateau-Thierry, France, on July 19, 1918.
Buried, Grave 11, Row 13, Block D, Oise-Aisne American Cemetery, Seringes-et-Nesles, Aisne, France.
1918
Bert M. Johnson
Penn, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company I, 308th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 08, 1918 / Age: 25
Killed in action, at Argonne Forest on Oct. 8, 1918.
Buried in Grave 3, Section 94, Plot No. 1, Argonne-American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
1918
James Landphere
Belmond, IA
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 139th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 26, 1918 / Age: 30
Killed in action on Sept. 26, 1918.
Buried in Grave 16, Row 10, Block G, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.