State Heroes

Harry J. Pederson

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 15, 1918 / Age: 23

Killed in action on Oct. 15, 1918.

Buried in Grave 22, Row 16, Block D, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Henry W. Karsten

World War I

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.

Pvt. John G. Gondo

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 306th Infantry Regiment, 77th Division

Date of Loss: October 15, 1918 / Age: 23

Died on Oct. 15, 1918, of wounds received in action.

Buried, Grave 9, Row 8, Block H, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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.

Pvt. Arthur N. Gorder

World War I

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.

Theodore Arved Anderson

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 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.

Jacob P. Kleinsasser

World War I

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.

Albert Benedict Ries

World War I

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.

Harry Schwind

World War I

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.

Cpl. Elmer F. Rushfeldt

World War I

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.

Pvt. Ole Iverson

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

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

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

Remains returned to U. S. Sept. 26, 1921, and buried at Carson, N. Dak.

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

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