State Heroes
World War I (WWI)
1918
Christian Angel Brekke
Simcoe, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery E, 335th Field Artillery
Date of Loss: February 03, 1918 / Age: 26
Died of pneumonia, at Camp Pike, Ark., on Feb. 3, 1918.
Buried at Simcoe, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Sigval Opdahl
Sheldon, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company L, 348th Infantry
Date of Loss: January 09, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of broncho pneumonia, at Camp Pike, Ark., on Jan. 9, 1918.
Buried at Sheldon, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Jacob Dorgeloos
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 357th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 26, 1918 / Age: 25
Killed in action on Oct. 26, 1918.
Buried in Grave 33, Row 38, Block E, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Richard Emil Larson
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters Company, 1st Infantry
Date of Loss: October 22, 1918 / Age: 29
Died of broncho pneumonia, on Oct. 22, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND as Richard Larsen.
1918
Harry H. Swontkaski
Ashton, NE
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 37th Company, 10th Battalion, 160th Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 22
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 11, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 4, page 3178 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Ole Staxrud
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company M, 137th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 24, 1918 / Age: 28
Killed in action on Sept. 24, 1918.
Buried, Grave 13, Row 14, Block G, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt.1st Class John D. English
Niagara, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 213th Field Signal Battalion
Date of Loss: November 04, 1918 / Age: 21
Died of empyema on Nov. 4, 1918, at Camp Lewis, Wash.
Buried at Niagara, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Loraine York
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.
1918
2nd Lt. Cecil Henry Tracy
Jamestown, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 21, 1918 / Age: 21
Killed in action on Oct. 21, 1918.
Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on Oct. 10, 1921, and buried in Calvary Cemetery, Jamestown, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Rasmus Olaus Eversvick
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 210th Engineers
Date of Loss: October 08, 1918 / Age: 28
Died of lobar pneumonia, on Oct. 8, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 1, page 875 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Irving Helmer Krengel
Elgin, IL
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company L, 138th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 27, 1918 / Age: 27
Killed in action on Sept. 27, 1918.
Remains returned to U. S. on Oct. 11, 1921, and buried in Bluff City Cemetery, Elgin, Ill.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Private Garfield Jerome Brye
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 23, 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
1918
Joseph Aloysius Nowatzki
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 352nd Infantry
Date of Loss: October 31, 1918 / Age: 22
Died of pneumonia at Hericourt, France, on Oct. 31, 1918.
Buried in Grave 7, Row 24, Block G, Argonne-American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
1918
Harold Bernard Gordanier
Fredonia, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Ordnance Guard Company No. 10, Ancor, Ohio
Date of Loss: November 05, 1918 / Age: 25
Died at Camp Ancor, Ohio, on Nov. 5, 1918.
Buried at Fredonia, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Gilbert Joseph Larson
Ellsworth, MN
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company No. 11, 20th Engineers
Date of Loss: August 06, 1918 / Age: 31
Died of influenza on Aug. 6, 1918.
Remains returned to U. S. on Nov. 2, 1920, and buried in Grand Prairie Cemetery, Ellsworth, Minn.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
John W. Ramsey
Branch of Service: Army
Date of Loss: October 21, 1918 / Age:
Place of Death: Army Training Corps