State Heroes
World War I (WWI)
1918
Henry W. Karsten
Long Prairie, MN
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters Company, 40th Field Artillery
Date of Loss: October 15, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 15, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 2, page 1630 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Private Harold Abel
Fordville, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company G
Regiment / Group / Brigade: 30th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 15, 1918 / Age: 21
Killed in action on Oct. 15, 1918.
Remains returned to U. S. on Aug. 29, 1921, and consigned to Archie Abel, Fordville, N. Dak. (place of burial not given).
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Robert Klang
Dunseith, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company I, 77th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 15, 1918 / Age: 22
Died of pneumonia, at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 15, 1918.
Buried at Dunseith, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
1st Lt. Lewis Marcus Thune
South Superior, WIWorld War I (WWI)
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.
1918
Pvt. John Jacob Hoffman
Ashley, ND
World War I (WWI)
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.
1918
John Louis Scheidt
Red Oak, IA
World War I (WWI)
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.
1918
Theodore Arved Anderson
Gwinner, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 78th Infantry
Regiment / Group / Brigade: 78th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 29
Died of pneumonia, at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 14, 1918.
Buried at Gwinner, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Jacob P. Kleinsasser
Max, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 313th Ammunition Train
Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 27
Died in France, Oct. 14, 1918.
Buried in French-American Military Cemetery, France. Reburied in Lutheran Cemetery, Max, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Albert Benedict Ries
Jamestown, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 10th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 21
Died 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.
1918
Cpl. Elmer F. Rushfeldt
De Groat, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 137th Machine Gun Battalion
Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 28
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 14, 1918.
Buried at sea.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Harry Schwind
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 128th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 24
Killed in action on Oct. 14, 1918.
Buried, Grave 1, Row 41, Block D, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
1918
Pvt. Arthur N. Gorder
Carbury, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 125th Field Artillery Regiment, 34th Division
Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of pneumonia at Liverpool, England, on Oct. 14, 1918.
Buried, Grave 6, Row 2, Block D, Brookwood American Cemetery, Brookwood, England.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Henry C. Roder
Anamoose, ND
World War I (WWI)
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.
1918
Fireman 3c Floyd Albert Cooper
Leith, ND
World War I (WWI)
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.
World War I (WWI) Student Army Training Corps (SATC)
1918
Private Warren Arthur Parker
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 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