State Heroes

Hjalmer Joakim Hanson

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company G, 5th Limited Service Regiment, 161st Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 30

Died of pneumonia, on Oct. 11, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 2, page 1232 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Pvt.1st Class Edwin Wittmayer

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 19

Killed in action on Oct. 11, 1918.

Buried, Grave 39, Row 41, Block B, 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

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.

William Arthur Rasmusen

World War I

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.

Stanley J. Novak

World War I

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.

Pvt. John S. Bannister

World War I

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.

Pvt.1st Class Ernest Julius Alfred Erickson

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 361st Infantry

Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 29

Killed in action in Argonne Forest, on Oct. 10, 1918.

Buried, Wilton, N. Dak.

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

Pvt. Boyd Eagleson

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Division

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

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

Buried in Grave 19, Row 19, Block E, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

Henry Ludvig Larson

World War I

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.

Pvt. James Andrew Conery

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery B, 127th Field Artillery

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

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 10, 1918.

Buried in France; remains returned to U. S. on Nov. 18, 1920, and buried in Lakeside Cemetery, Graceville, Minn.

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

Sgt. Ross Reuben Chapman

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company G, 30th Infantry

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

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

Remains returned to U. S., Sept. 7, 1921, and buried at Hanover, Ill.

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

Wilt Edwin Keller

World War I

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 influenze 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.

Albert W. Wallner

World War I

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.

Magnus Eugene Alen

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 28

Died on Oct. 10, 1918, of bronchial pneumonia.