State Heroes
World War I (WWI)
Elmer Ernest Rule
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 9th Observation Battery, Field Artillery, Central Officers Training School, Camp Zachary Taylor, Ky.
Date of Loss: October 25, 1918 / Age:
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 25, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 4, page 2782 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
Roger Thompson
Neche, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company K, 8th Infantry
Date of Loss: November 01, 1918 / Age: 24
Died of pneumonia at Hoboken, N. J., on Nov. 1, 1918.
Buried at Neche, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Jerald F. Fairchild
Battle Creek, MI
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company M, 40th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 20, 1918 / Age: 32
Died at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 20, 1918.
Buried at Battle Creek, Mich.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
PFC Harry Ebenholt Nypen
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 362nd Infantry
Date of Loss: October 05, 1918 / Age: 24
Died of wounds received in action, on Oct. 5, 1918.
Buried at Fleury-sur-Aire, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Carl Gustav Berg
Klara, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 50th Company, 13th Battalion, 163rd Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 13, 1918 / Age: 26
Died of pneumonia, at Camp Dodge, Iowa, on Oct. 13, 1918.
Buried at Klara, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
PFC Walter J. Keefe
Fargo, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: July 30, 1918 / Age: 18

Ole John Larson
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company G, 139th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 29, 1918 / Age: 22
Killed in action on Sept. 29, 1918.
Grave unlocated.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Lars M. Lundberg
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 77th Infantry
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 3, page 1956 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
Pvt. Louis Huss
Makoti, 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.
Reinhold D. Schaefer
Lesterville, SD
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company G, 362nd Infantry
Date of Loss: October 31, 1918 / Age: 23
Killed in action at Stenburg, Belgium, on Oct. 31, 1918.
Buried in Grave 6, Row 3, Block B, Flanders Field American Cemetery, Waereghem, Belgium.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Joseph William Kusie
Dickinson, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Marines
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 5th Separate Battalion
Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 23
Wounded in action on Oct. 3, 1918, and died on Oct. 4, 1918.
Buried in Miomandre Hospital Cemetery, Suippes (Marne), France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Earl Ezra McLain
Valley City, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 53rd Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 05, 1918 / Age: 24
Died of influenza on Oct. 5, 1918, at Camp Hancock, Ga.
Buried, Valley City, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Private First Class George Anderson
Taylor, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent:82nd Division
Date of Loss: October 08, 1918 / Age: 27
Killed in action, on Oct. 8, 1918.
Buried in Grave 6, Row 14, Block C, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt. Charles Cunningham Hale
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Marines
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 6th USMC Machine Gun Battalion, 2nd Division
Date of Loss: June 11, 1918 / Age: 24
Killed in action, June 11, 1918.
Buried, Grave 35, Row 13, Block A, Aisne-Marne American Cemetery, Belleau, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
John Alexander Templeton
Hannah, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Casual Company No. 4, Camp Replacement Battalion
Date of Loss: October 22, 1918 / Age: 29
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 22, 1918.
Buried in American Military Cemetery, Toul, France. Remains returned to U. S. May 24, 1921, and buried at Hannah, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
CMA3 Hershel Owen
Taylorville, IL
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Navy
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Naval Air Station, St. Trojan
Date of Loss: September 20, 1918 / Age: 20
Died of pneumonia on Sept. 20, 1918.
Buried in France cemetery.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.