State Heroes
World War I (WWI)
1918
Pvt. Einer Jensen
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 7th Engineer Regiment, 5th Division
Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 30
Killed in action on Oct. 14, 1918.
Buried, Grave 25, Row 5, Block E, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Fred Schmuhl
Jamestown, ND
World War I (WWI)
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
Corporal Henry Hafener
Mooreton, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Machine Gun Company, 77th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 13, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of broncho pneumonia at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 13, 1918.
Buried at Mooreton, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND as Henry Hafner.
Anthony Fricke
Spirit Lake, IA
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 12th Company, 3rd Battalion, 160th Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 13, 1918 / Age: 28
Died of broncho pneumonia at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 13, 1918.
Buried at Spirit Lake, Iowa.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Private First Class Herbert Carl Maske
Lomira, WI
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company I
Regiment / Group / Brigade: 326th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 13, 1918 / Age: 23
Died on Oct. 13, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Buried, Grave 14, Row 23, Block C, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Pvt. Ingvald Gjertson
Wolford, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 137th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 13, 1918 / Age: 25
Died on Oct. 13, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Buried in American Cemetery, Bozoilles, Vosges, France. Remains returned to Norway, and consigned to Mrs. Arma Rosindrson Gjertson, Raranger, Norway. (place of burial not given).
Seaman John George Bender
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Navy
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: SS Pioneer
Date of Loss: October 13, 1918 / Age: 20
Died in Naval Hospital, New York, on Oct. 13, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
2nd Lt. Paul Martin Hanson
Church's Ferry, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 4th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 13, 1918 / Age: 23
Killed in action, on Oct. 13, 1918.
Place of burial unknown.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Daniel Chase
Elbowoods, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Veterinary Corps, 40th Field Artillery
Date of Loss: October 13, 1918 / Age: 24
Died of broncho pneumonia, at Camp Custer, Mich., Oct. 13, 1918.
Buried at Elbowoods, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Ole Semeling, Jr.
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company I, 305th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 13, 1918 / Age: 25
Killed in action in Argonne drive, on Oct. 13, 1918.
Buried in Grave 36, Row 11, Block H, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
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