State Heroes Total:
3940
Service Branch

World War I

Michael Babich photo 1918

Pvt. Michael Babich

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Division

Date of Loss: November 18, 1918 / Age: 27

Died on Nov. 18, 1918, of wounds received in action.

Buried, Grave 17, Row 5, Block H, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

Niels Jensen photo 1918

Pvt. Niels Jensen

Luverne, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 137th Infantry Regiment, 35th Division

Date of Loss: October 01, 1918 / Age: 29

Killed in action on Oct. 1, 1918.

Buried, Grave 36, Row 31, Block E, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Stanley Ostrowski photo 1918

Stanley Ostrowski

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 7th Machine Gun Battalion

Date of Loss: October 20, 1918 / Age: 22

Killed in action on Oct. 20, 1918.

Buried in Grave 31, Row 16, Block C, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Willis O. Gish photo 1918

Willis O. Gish

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 8th Ammunition Train

Date of Loss: July 14, 1918 / Age: 28

Murdered - strangulation - on July 14, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 2, page 1060 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Osmer James Leigh photo 1918

Pvt. Osmer James Leigh

Royalton, MN

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 58th Infantry

Date of Loss: September 22, 1918 / Age: 24

Died of pneumonia on Sept. 22, 1918.

Remains returned to U. S. on Nov. 10, 1920, and consigned to J. E. Leigh, Royalton, Minn. (place of burial not given).

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

Frederick E. Smith photo 1918

Lieutenant Colonel Frederick E. Smith

Rockford, IL

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 308th Infantry

Date of Loss: September 29, 1918 / Age: 45

When communication from the forward regimental post of command to the battalion leading the advance had been interrupted temporarily, by the infiltration of small parties of the enemy armed with machine guns, Lieutenant-Colonel Smith personally led a p

Thomas Lyle Russell photo 1918

1st Lt. Thomas Lyle Russell

Minneapolis, MN

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 47th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 23

Killed in action on Oct. 4, 1918, at Bois de Brieulles.

Buried, Cemetery No. 735, Bois de Brieulles.

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

Gunder Aslakson photo 1918

Pvt. Gunder Aslakson

Webster, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company I, 352nd Infantry

Date of Loss: October 20, 1918 / Age: 28

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 20, 1918.

Buried in French Military Cemetery, Trauack (Alsace). Remains returned to U. S. on Oct. 1, 1921, and buried at Webster, N. Dak.

Harry Christian Hansen photo 1918

Pvt. Harry Christian Hansen

Cooperstown

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 28th Infantry Regiment, 1st Division

Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 22

Killed in action on Oct. 4, 1918.

Buried, Grave 11, Row 7, Block F, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Preston George McGarry photo 1918

Preston George McGarry

Willow City, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: School for Bakers and Cooks, Camp Custer, Mich.

Date of Loss: October 09, 1918 / Age: 24

Died of pneumonia at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 9, 1918.

Buried at Willow City, N. Dak.

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

Leete Gladstone Van Syckle photo 1918

Leete Gladstone Van Syckle

Grand Forks, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 05, 1918 / Age: 26

Died of influenza pneumonia at Camp Hancock, Ga., on Oct. 5, 1918.

Buried at Grand Forks, N. Dak.

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

William Arthur Rasmusen photo 1918

William Arthur Rasmusen

Fargo, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery A, 40th Field Artillery

Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 28

Died of pneumonia at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 10, 1918.

Buried at Fargo, N. Dak.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND as William A Rasmussen.

George Arlington Hill photo 1918

Seaman 2c George Arlington Hill

Ardoch, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Navy

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Naval Training Station, Seattle, Wash.

Date of Loss: October 13, 1918 / Age: 25

Died of pneumonia at Seattle, Wash., on Oct. 13, 1918.

Buried at Ardoch, N. Dak.

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

Virgil Fredrick photo 1918

Pvt. Virgil Fredrick

Fargo, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company K, 307th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 06, 1918 / Age: 26

Died of pneumonia, on Oct. 6, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 2, page 976 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

George Frank Haider photo 1918

George F. Haider

St. Anthony, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company No. 1

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent:77th Infantry Division

Date of Loss: October 06, 1918 / Age: 26

Died of the Spanish Flu of October 6, 1918.

Information found in Volume 2, page 1177 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.