State Heroes

Private Fortune Peter Catellier

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 19, 1918 / Age: 22

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 Saint John Cemetery. Rolette County North Dakota

Private Friedrich F. Marzolf

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 18, 1918 / Age: 22

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 Kramer Cemetery, Bottineau County, North Dakota.

Pvt. Martin Christianson

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company M, 349th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 18, 1918 / Age: 29

Died of pneumonia, on Oct. 18, 1918.

Buried, Grave 35, Row 26, Block E, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Gilford Oliver Olson

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 22nd Company, 6th Battalion, 160th Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: October 18, 1918 / Age: 21

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 18, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 3, page 2415 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Cpl. William F. Thiele

Chicago, IL

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 11th Company, 3rd Battalion, 160th Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: October 18, 1918 / Age: 31

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 18, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 4, page 3205 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Arthur Walter Peterson

Lucy Township, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 18, 1918 / Age: 23

Died of pneumonia, on Oct. 18, 1918, at Camp Custer, Mich.

Buried, Lucy Township, Burke county, N. Dak.

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

Arthur Edwin Erickson

Bowman, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 40th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 18, 1918 / Age: 22

Died of pneumonia at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 18, 1918.

Buried at Bowman, N. Dak.

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

Michael Holsbrekken

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 20th Battalion, US Guards

Date of Loss: October 18, 1918 / Age: 25

Died on Oct. 18, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 2, page 1400 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Alfred Melvin Peterson

Ambrose, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, Depot Battalion No. 1

Date of Loss: October 18, 1918 / Age: 26

Died of pneumonia, at Camp Dodge, Iowa, on Oct. 18, 1918.

Buried at Ambrose, N. Dak.

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

Christ Sorlee

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 18, 1918 / Age: 26

Died of pneumonia at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 18, 1918.

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

Roy Alfred Dingman

Oelwein, IA

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Troop E, 7th Cavalry, Fort Bliss, Texas

Date of Loss: October 18, 1918 / Age: 21

Died of pneumonia at Fort Bliss, Texas, on Oct. 18, 1918.

Buried at Oelwein, Iowa.

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

Charles Arthur Howard

Hope, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 17, 1918 / Age: 28

Died of broncho pneumonia, at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 17, 1918.

Buried at Hope, N. Dak.

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

George Texel

Ross, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 210th Engineers

Date of Loss: October 17, 1918 / Age: 22

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 17, 1918, at Camp Funston, Kans.

Buried, Ross, N. Dak.

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

John A. Smestad

Hatton, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 17, 1918 / Age: 30

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 17, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 4, page 2996 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Pvt. Leonard M. Kubousek

Minto, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company No. 2, Fort Leavenworth September Automatic Replacement Draft, Signal Corps

Date of Loss: October 17, 1918 / Age: 18

Died of pneumonia, on Oct. 17, 1918.

Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on Oct. 6, 1920, and buried at Minto, N. Dak.