State Heroes

Harold Alf Rorwick

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company F, 10th Infantry

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

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 2755 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Helmer P. Stigen

Gorham, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 41st Company, 160th Depot Brigade

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

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 11, 1918.

Buried, Gorham, N. Dak.

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

Ralph Linden Helmer

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 34th Company, 161st Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 24

Died of pneumonia, at Camp Grant, Ill., on Oct. 11, 1918.

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

Leonard Lindy Lieth

Bartlett, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery D, 42nd Field Artillery

Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 23

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

Buried, Bartlett, N. Dak.

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

Dreng H. Roisland

Kloten, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 109th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 25

Killed in action on Oct. 10, 1918.

Buried, Grave 5, Row 2, Block E, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Morris Joel Lund

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 30

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 10, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 3, page 1954 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Pvt.1st Class Almon Burton Coffin

Velva, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

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

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

Died of wounds received in action, Oct. 10, 1918.

Buried in Grave 144, Plot 3, Section E, American Cemetery, Vaubecourt-Meuse, France. Reburied in Arlington Cemetery, Va.

Stanley J. Novak

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 25

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

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

Henry Ludvig Larson

Hannaford, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 36th Company, 161st Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 23

Died of pneumonia at Camp Grant, Ill., on Oct. 10, 1918.

Buried at Hannaford, N. Dak.

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

William Arthur Rasmusen

Fargo, ND

World War I (WWI)

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.

Wilt Edwin Keller

Hatton, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 19th Company, Machine Gun Training Camp

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

Died of influenza on Oct. 10, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 2, page 1644 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Adolph Peter

Garrison, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 78th Infantry

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

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

Buried at Garrison, N. Dak.

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

GM2c George Albert Boyer

Chippewa Falls, WI

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Navy

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Naval Hospital, Charleston, S. C.

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

Died in Naval Hospital, Charleston, S. C., on Oct. 10, 1918.

Buried, Chippewa Falls, Wis.

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

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.

Pvt. John S. Bannister

Jamestown, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 22

Killed in action, Meuse-Argonne, Oct. 10, 1918.

Remains returned to U. S. on Oct. 17, 1921, and buried in Highland Cemetery, Jamestown, N. Dak.

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

Herbert Edwin Schwartz

New Salem, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Supply Company, 78th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 23

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

Burial, New Salem, N. Dak.

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