State Heroes

William George Horning

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 15, 1918 / Age: 31

Died of pneumonia, at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 15, 1918.

Buried at Ryder, N. Dak.

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

Helmer Cornelius Pederson

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 15, 1918 / Age: 22

Died of broncho pneumonia at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 15, 1918.

Buried at Flora, N. Dak.

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

Pvt.1st Class Thomas H. Christofferson

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 326th Infantry Regiment, 82nd Division

Date of Loss: October 15, 1918 / Age:

Fireman 3c Floyd Albert Cooper

World War I

Branch of Service: Navy

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: USS Mercy

Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 19

Died at Yorktown, Va., on Oct. 14, 1918.

Buried, Leith, N. Dak.

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

Henry C. Roder

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 10th Detachment, Administration Labor Company

Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 28

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 14, 1918.

Remains returned to U. S. and buried at Anamoose, N. Dak.

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

Pvt. Einer Jensen

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 7th Engineer Regiment, 5th Division

Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 30

Killed in action on Oct. 14, 1918.

Buried, Grave 25, Row 5, Block E, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Stephen Swanson

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 160th Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 23

Died of broncho pneumonia, at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 14, 1918.

Buried at Valley City, N. Dak.

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

Christ G. Roth

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company No. 10, 3rd Battalion, 163rd Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 22

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 14, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 4, page 2765 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Carl Otto Lindner

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 14th Mobile Veterinary Section

Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 26

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 14, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 3, page 1907 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Pvt.1st Class Arthur C. Miller

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters Company, 58th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 25

Died on Oct. 14, 1918, of wounds received in action.

Remains returned to England, and consigned to Stanley R. Miller, 5 Archer St., Kensington, (London S. W. 11), England. (Place of burial unknown).

Fred Schmuhl

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 31

Died of pneumonia, at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 14, 1918.

Buried at Jamestown, N. Dak.

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

Pvt. John Jacob Hoffman

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 352nd Infantry Regiment, 88th Division

Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 22

Died of pneumonia, at Hericourt, France, on Oct. 14, 1918.

Buried, Grave 28, Row 14, Block D, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

1st Lt. Lewis Marcus Thune

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 25

Killed in action, Oct. 14, 1918.

Buried, Grave 3, Row 43, Block B, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

John Louis Scheidt

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 60th Balloon Company

Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 31

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 14, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 4, page 2845 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Private Warren Arthur Parker

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Student Army Training Corps UND Grand Forks ND

Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 29

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