State Heroes Total:
3937
Service Branch

World War I

James Ray Spitzer photo 1918

James Ray Spitzer

Cando, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 358th Infantry

Date of Loss: November 10, 1918 / Age: 21

Killed in action on Nov. 10, 1918.

Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on April 5, 1921, and buried at Cando, N. Dak.

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

Marion Ellis Tedrow photo 1918

Marion Ellis Tedrow

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 06, 1918 / Age: 22

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 6, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 4, page 3194 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

John Adolph Singer photo 1918

AS John Adolph Singer

Mercer, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Navy

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Naval Hospital, Great Lakes, Ill.

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

Died at Great Lakes, Ill., on Sept. 22, 1918.

Buried at Mercer, N. Dak.

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

Frederick Olson photo 1918

Frederick Olson

World War I

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.

Howard B. Bean photo 1918

Cpl. Howard B. Bean

Oakes, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company G, 16th Infantry

Date of Loss: July 22, 1918 / Age: 29

Died on July 22, 1918, of wounds received in action.

Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on Aug. 29, 1921, and consigned to Livingston Bean, Oakes, N. Dak. (Place of burial unknown).

Lyle Eugene Giffen photo 1918

Lyle Eugene Giffen

Glencoe, MN

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Training Detachment, Army Air Service Mechanics School

Date of Loss: December 06, 1918 / Age: 19

Died of pneumonia, at St. Paul, Minn., on Dec. 6, 1918.

Buried at Glencoe, Minn.

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

Austin Fortune photo 1918

Austin Fortune

Wheaton, MN

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Medical Department

Date of Loss: June 27, 1918 / Age: 29

Died at Fort Riley, Kans., on June 27, 1918.

Buried at Wheaton, Minn.

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

Carl Alfred Oefstedahl photo 1918

Pvt. Carl Alfred Oefstedahl

Spring Grove, MN

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company L, 138th Infantry

Date of Loss: July 11, 1918 / Age: 25

Killed in action on July 11, 1918.

Remains returned to U. S. on Aug. 1, 1921, and buried at Spring Grove, Minn.

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

Sigurd Lima photo 1918

Sigurd Lima

Cooperstown

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company G, 308th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 03, 1918 / Age: 26

Killed in action on Oct. 3, 1918.

Buried, Grave 11, Row 4, Block G, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Fred Shephard photo 1918

Fred Shephard

Hensel, ND

World War I

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company L, 23rd Infantry

Date of Loss: September 13, 1918 / Age: 26

Killed in action on Sept. 13, 1918.

Remains returned to U. S. Aug. 4, 1921, and buried in Grave 1986, European Section, National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.

Lyle Porter Cunningham photo 1918

Lyle Porter Cunningham

Kenmare, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Detachment No. 3, 64th Spruce Squadron

Date of Loss: July 30, 1918 / Age: 24

Drowned at Aberdeen, Wash., on July 30, 1918.

Buried, Kenmare, N. Dak.

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

Maurice Verschelde photo 1918

Maurice Verschelde

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Ambulance Company No. 350, 313th Sanitary Train

Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 27

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 10, 1918.

Buried, Grave 25, Row 25, Block G, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Clarence Grina photo 1918

Clarence Grina

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company F, 11th Depot Battalion, Signal Corps

Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 24

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 12, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 2, page 1121 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Alfred Elie Johnson photo 1918

Alfred Elie Johnson

Frost, MN

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company F, 3rd Pioneer Infantry

Date of Loss: September 27, 1918 / Age: 23

Died of pneumonia, on Sept. 27, 1918.

Remains returned to U. S. on Dec. 16, 1921, and buried in Emerald Cemetery, Frost, Minn.

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

George G. Cook photo 1918

George G. Cook

Cando, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 77th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 23

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 11, 1918.

Buried at Cando, N. Dak.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND as George C Cook.