State Heroes

Jesse Floyd Lewis

Robinson, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Aviation Section, Unassigned, Signal Corps

Date of Loss: April 12, 1918 / Age: 20

Died of pneumonia, at San Antonio, Texas, on April 12, 1918.

Buried at Robinson, N. Dak.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND as Jessie F Lewis.

Carl Erickson Losby

LaCrosse, WI

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery A, 15th Field Artillery

Date of Loss: September 25, 1918 / Age: 30

Died of La Grippe on Sept. 25, 1918, at Vertusy-sur-Meuse, France.

Buried in Cemetery No. 233. Remains returned to U. S. April 18, 1922, and buried in Grave 4388, European Section, National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.

Oscar Westby

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 12th Company, 3rd Battalion, 160th Depot Brigade

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

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 7, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 4, page 3434 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Cpl. Clarence H. Pilbeam

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: July 19, 1918 / Age: 21

Killed in action on July 19, 1918.

Buried in Grave 30, Row 17, Block A, Oise-Aisne American Cemetery, Seringes-et-Nesles, Aisne, France.

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

Ole Semeling, Jr.

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company I, 305th Infantry

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

Killed in action in Argonne drive, on Oct. 13, 1918.

Buried in Grave 36, Row 11, Block H, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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.

Petter Petterson

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 110th Infantry

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

Killed in action on Oct. 6, 1918.

Buried, Grave 34, Row 2, Block A, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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.

Deemer Herbert Faltz

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: July 23, 1918 / Age: 20

Killed in action, on July 23, 1918.

Buried, in France; reburied in Grave 1952, Arlington National Cemetery, Va.

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

Wagoner John Frederick Kuehne

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 4th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Division

Date of Loss: October 27, 1918 / Age: 22

Died of broncho pneumonia, on Oct. 27, 1918.

Buried, Grave 26, Row 21, Block A, St. Mihiel American Cemetery, Thiaucourt, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France.

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

Pvt. Otto H. Carlson

Fargo, 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.

Cpl. Van David Jones

Rhane [sic] (possibly Rhame), ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company L, 59th Infantry

Date of Loss: July 19, 1918 / Age: 22

Killed in action on July 19, 1918.

Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on Jan. 10, 1922, and buried in Lakewood Cemetery, Minneapolis, Minn., Jan. 16, 1922.

Pvt. Andy Oliver Berg

Hatton, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 61st Infantry

Date of Loss: October 17, 1918 / Age: 23

Died on Oct. 17, 1918, of wounds received in action.

Remains returned to U. S. on Aug. 15, 1921, and buried in Bethel Congregational Cemetery, Hatton, N. Dak.

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

Cpl. William T. Henry

Grand Forks, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 329th Aero Service Squadron

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

Died of disease at Salisbury Plains, England, on Oct. 23, 1918.

Buried, Grave 12, Row 5, Block C, Brookwood American Cemetery, Brookwood, England.

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

Benjamin H. Stowell

Bemidji, MN

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery E, 41st Field Artillery

Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 26

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

Buried, Bemidji, Minn.

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

Private Jacob Miller Geyer

Sheyenne, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent:28th Division

Date of Loss: October 02, 1918 / Age: 29

Killed in action on Oct. 2, 1918.

Buried, in Grave 12, Row 3, Block E, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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