State Heroes

Alvin O. Kvenshagen

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 23rd Infantry

Date of Loss: October 02, 1918 / Age: 22

Killed in action, at Mont Blanc Ridge, Champagne Sector, on Oct. 2, 1918.

James A. Palmer

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 02, 1918 / Age: 37

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 2, 1918, at Camp Merritt, N. J.

Buried, Newlon, Mont.

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

Pvt. Emil Henry Kaehn

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 137th Infantry Regiment, 35th Division

Date of Loss: October 01, 1918 / Age: 22

Missing in Action or Buried at Sea.

Killed in action on Oct. 1, 1918.

Grave unlocated. Tablets of the Missing at Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne, France

Sgt. Jean Haywood Pearl

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters, 4th Sanitary Train

Date of Loss: October 01, 1918 / Age: 32

Died on Oct. 1, 1918, of wounds received in action.

Buried in France. Reburied at Mound, N. Dak.

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

Ole Melvin Morken

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 2nd Machine Gun Battalion

Date of Loss: October 01, 1918 / Age: 26

Killed in action on Oct. 1, 1918.

Buried, Grave 14, Row 25, Block A, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Maurice D. Rowe

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 137th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 01, 1918 / Age: 29

Killed in action on Oct. 1, 1918.

Buried, Grave 27, Row 19, Block B, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Christ Sortland

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company F, 138th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 01, 1918 / Age: 24

Killed in action on Oct. 1, 1918.

Buried, Grave 32, Section 18, Block 1, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France. Remains returned to Norway, and consigned to Ole John Sortland, Bergen, Norway.

Pvt. Eugene P. Brasseur

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 138th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 01, 1918 / Age: 23

Died in Base Hospital No. 66, at Neufchateau, France, on Oct. 1, 1918, of wounds received in action.

Richard Mettler

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company M, 306th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 01, 1918 / Age: 25

Killed in action on Oct. 1, 1918.

Buried in Grave 33, Row 42, Block G, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

John M. Larson

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company K, 140th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 01, 1918 / Age: 25

Killed in action on Oct. 1, 1918.

Buried, Grave 22, Row 43, Block H, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Sgt. Edwin Oscar Estby

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 01, 1918 / Age: 29

Died of pneumonia at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 1, 1918.

Buried at Falsen, N. Dak.

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

Arthur C. Larson

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company K, 140th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 01, 1918 / Age: 24

Killed in action at Exermont, France, on Oct. 1, 1918.

Remains returned to U. S. on July 28, 1921, and buried in Grave 2444, European Section, National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.

Edward Philip O'Malley

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 128th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 01, 1918 / Age: 29

Killed in action on Oct. 1, 1918.

Buried in Grave 37, Row 17, Block H, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Pvt.1st Class Wyatt E. Silker

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 01, 1918 / Age: 23

Killed in action on Oct. 1, 1918.

Buried, Grave 31, Row 23, Block A, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

Thedor G. Larson

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company K, 140th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 01, 1918 / Age: 25

Killed in action on Oct. 1, 1918.

Remains returned to U. S. on Aug. 15, 1921, and buried at Nearson, Minn.

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