State Heroes
World War I
1918
Aloysius Georges Schwan
Langdon, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 2nd Training Battalion, Signal Corps
Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 22
Died of influenza at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., on Oct. 11, 1918.
Buried, Langdon, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Ralph Linden Helmer
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 34th Company, 161st Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 24
Died of pneumonia, at Camp Grant, Ill., on Oct. 11, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
John Batsch
Cleveland, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company K, 10th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 26
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 10, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 1, page 195 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Walter B. Brown
Brainerd, MNWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 22
Killed in action on Oct. 10, 1918.
Remains returned to U. S. on Oct. 10, 1921, and buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Brainerd, Minn.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Maurice Verschelde
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Ambulance Company No. 350, 313th Sanitary Train
Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 27
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 10, 1918.
Buried, Grave 25, Row 25, Block G, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Fred W. Skubinna
Churchtown, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Supply Company, 41st Field Artillery
Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 10, 1918, at Camp Custer, Mich.
Buried, Churchtown, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Jacob Jake Unruh
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 33rd Company, 161st Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 21
Died at Camp Grant, Ill., on Oct. 10, 1918.
Buried, Mercer county.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt.1st Class Arthur Eugene Shaw
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 23
Killed in action at Argonne Forest, Oct. 10, 1918.
Buried in Grave 8, Row 37, Block C, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
1918
William Arthur Rasmusen
Fargo, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery A, 40th Field Artillery
Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 28
Died of pneumonia at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 10, 1918.
Buried at Fargo, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND as William A Rasmussen.
1918
Pvt. John S. Bannister
Jamestown, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 22
Killed in action, Meuse-Argonne, Oct. 10, 1918.
Remains returned to U. S. on Oct. 17, 1921, and buried in Highland Cemetery, Jamestown, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt.1st Class Ernest Julius Alfred Erickson
Wilton, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 361st Infantry
Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 29
Killed in action in Argonne Forest, on Oct. 10, 1918.
Buried, Wilton, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Ole Kleven
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery B, 40th Field Artillery
Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 25
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 10, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 2, page 1694 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Pvt. Boyd Eagleson
Milton, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Division
Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 23
Died on Oct. 10, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Buried in Grave 19, Row 19, Block E, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
1918
John William Kendrew
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters Company, 42nd Field Artillery
Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 26
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 10, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 2, page 1655 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Sgt. Ross Reuben Chapman
Hanover, ILWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company G, 30th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 21
Killed in action at Meuse-Argonne, on Oct. 10, 1918.
Remains returned to U. S., Sept. 7, 1921, and buried at Hanover, Ill.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.