State Heroes

Albert W. Wallner

New Ulm, MN

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 19

Killed in action on Oct. 10, 1918.

Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on Aug. 1, 1921, and buried in Catholic Cemetery, New Ulm, Minn.

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

Cpl. Bolek Gosecky

Bowbells, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 05, 1918 / Age: 31

Killed in action on Oct. 5, 1918.

Buried, Grave 38, Row 36, Block H, 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

World War I (WWI)

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.

Pvt. Osmer James Leigh

Royalton, MN

World War I (WWI)

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.

Pvt.1st Class Calvin W. Scott

Devils Lake, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

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

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

Died, July 27, 1918, of wounds received in action.

Buried, Grave 23, Row 6, Block B, Suresnes American Cemetery, Suresnes, Seine, France.

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

Carl J. Roardson

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.

Arron Holmquist

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.

Pvt.1st Class Ernest Julius Alfred Erickson

Wilton, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 361st Infantry

Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 29

Killed in action in Argonne Forest, on Oct. 10, 1918.

Buried, Wilton, N. Dak.

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

Preston George McGarry

Willow City, ND

World War I (WWI)

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.

Pvt. Ignace Kushnir

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Machine Gun Company, 164th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 09, 1918 / Age: 27

Killed in action on Oct. 9, 1918.

Buried, Grave 8, Row 29, Block G, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Leete Gladstone Van Syckle

Grand Forks, ND

World War I (WWI)

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.

James Johannson

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.

Mechanic Raymond Alexander Hanson

Shell Lake, WI

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: June 11, 1918 / Age: 27

Killed in action on June 11, 1918, at Cantigny, France.

Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on March 28, 1921, and buried at Shell Lake, Wis., on April 2, 1921.

Private Hiram Ornn Wiper

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 25, 1918 / Age: 19

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 Forman Cemetery, Sargent County, North Dakota.

Pvt. William Glenn Carroll

Minot, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: July 20, 1918 / Age: 20

Died on July 20, 1918, of wounds received in action.

Remains returned to U. S. on Aug. 29, 1921, and buried in Rose Hill Cemetery, Minot, N. Dak.