State Heroes
World War I (WWI)
1918
PFC Louis T. Grovum
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 07, 1918 / Age: 34
Died on Oct. 7, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Buried, Grave 13, Row 11, Block N, St. Mihiel American Cemetery, Thiaucourt, Meaurthe-et-Moselle, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
John Tillett
Bathgate, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 23rd Infantry
Date of Loss: October 07, 1918 / Age: 24
Died on Oct. 7, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Buried, Grave 3, Row 23, Block H, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Lars Helgeson Opedal
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 33rd Company, 161st Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 07, 1918 / Age: 29
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 7, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 3, page 2442 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
Ernest William Hartmann
New Salem, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 78th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 07, 1918 / Age: 22
Died of pneumonia, at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 7, 1918.
Buried at New Salem, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Olaf Dybdal
McLeod, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company K, 139th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 07, 1918 / Age: 28
Died, Oct. 7, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Buried, Grave 157, Row 12, Block 4, Argonne-American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France. Reburied, McLeod, N. Dak.
Henry Martin Hanson
Heimdal, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company G, 77th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 07, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of pneumonia, on Oct. 7, 1918.
Buried, Heimdal, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Clyde Verdi Claflin
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Navy
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Dunwoody Naval Training Institute
Date of Loss: October 07, 1918 / Age: 20
Died at Minneapolis, Minn., on Oct. 7, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 1, page 562 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
John Larsen
Beach, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 33rd Company, 161st Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 06, 1918 / Age: 22
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 6, 1918.
Buried, Beach, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Fritchjof Hagboe
Barton, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 22nd Company, Machine Gun Training Center
Date of Loss: October 06, 1918 / Age: 26
Died of pneumonia, on Oct. 6, 1918.
Buried at Barton Zion Lutheran Cemetery
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Otto Berglund
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company G, Development Battalion No. 2
Date of Loss: October 06, 1918 / Age: 29
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 6, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 1, page 258 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
George F. Haider
St. Anthony, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company No. 1
Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: 77th Infantry Division
Date of Loss: October 06, 1918 / Age: 26
Died of the Spanish Flu of October 6, 1918.
Information found in Volume 2, page 1177 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
Pvt. William Borgen
Hannah, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters Company, 23rd Infantry
Date of Loss: October 06, 1918 / Age: 22
Killed in action on Oct. 6, 1918.
Buried in Grave 24, Section 97, Plot 1, Argonne-American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France. Remains returned to U. S. Sept. 12, 1921, and buried in Hannah Cemetery, Hannah, N. Dak.
Fred James Roach
Lisbon, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 339th Machine Gun Battalion
Date of Loss: October 06, 1918 / Age: 31
Died of pneumonia at Grange La Ville, France, on Oct. 6, 1918.
Remains returned to U. S. May 31, 1921, and buried at Lisbon, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Gerhard E Radloff
Hankinson, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 313th Engineers
Date of Loss: October 06, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of pneunomia, at Herricourt, France, on Oct. 6, 1918.
Remains returned to U. S. May 31, 1921, and buried in German Emmanuel Church Cemetery, Hankinson, N. Dak.
Aslak Vettrus
Rolette, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 34th Company, 161st Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 06, 1918 / Age: 24
Died of pneumonia at Camp Grant, Ill., on Oct. 6, 1918.
Buried, Rolette, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.