State Heroes
World War I
1918
Albert Vandermeer
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 139th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 29, 1918 / Age: 23
Killed in action on Sept. 29, 1918.
Buried, Grave 12, Row 11, Block C, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Emil Oscar Stubstad
Dazey, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 362nd Infantry
Date of Loss: September 29, 1918 / Age: 26
Killed in action on Sept. 29, 1918.
Buried at Gesnes, France. Reburied in Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France. Remains returned to U. S. on Sept. 27, 1921, and buried at Dazey, N. Dak.
1918
Gottlieb Reily
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company K, 137th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 29, 1918 / Age: 24
Died on Sept. 29, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Buried, Grave 22, Row 37, Block G, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
1918
Pvt.1st Class Orin Vern McNeil
Brittin, SDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery D, 119th Field Artillery
Date of Loss: September 29, 1918 / Age: 23
Killed in action on Sept. 29, 1918.
Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on Aug. 8, 1921, and buried at Brittin, S. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND as Orvin V McNeil.
1918
Pvt. Gust Kruger
Madison, SDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 112th Infantry Regiment, 28th Division
Date of Loss: September 29, 1918 / Age: 22
Died on Sept. 29, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Buried, Grave 33, Row 43, Block D, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
1918
Harry Andrew Palmer
Grace City, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters Company, 78th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 29, 1918 / Age: 28
Died of pneumonia on Sept. 29, 1918, at Camp Custer, Mich.
Buried, Grace City, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND as Harry E Palmer.
1918
Tony Momonie
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 139th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 29, 1918 / Age: 23
Killed in action on Sept. 29, 1918.
Buried, Grave 25, Row 41, Block A, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Arthur Selmer Lee
Ashby, MNWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 139th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 29, 1918 / Age: 26
Killed in action, Argonne Woods, Sept. 29, 1918.
Grave unlocated.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
William W Prelvitz
Hector, MNWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters Company, 352nd Infantry
Date of Loss: September 29, 1918 / Age: 30
Died of pneumonia at Base Hospital No. 1, Hericourt Haute, France, on Sept. 29, 1918.
Remains returned to U. S. June 6, 1921, and buried in St. John's Cemetery, Hector, Minn.
1918
Pvt.1st Class Edward Daniel Hennessy
Houston, MNWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters Company, 362nd Infantry
Date of Loss: September 29, 1918 / Age: 29
Killed in action at Gesness, France, on Sept. 29, 1918.
Buried in Grave 2, Row 40, Block G, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
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1918
Pvt. Andrew Oscar Bothun [sic] (possibly Bothen)
Sherwood, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 110th Infantry Regiment, 28th Division
Date of Loss: September 29, 1918 / Age: 27
Killed in action on Sept. 29, 1918.
Buried, Grave 8, Row 10, Block A, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Delbert Benjamin Van Allen
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 362nd Infantry
Date of Loss: September 29, 1918 / Age: 25
Killed in action on Sept. 29, 1918.
Buried, Grave 32, Row 23, Block E, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
1918
Ole John Larson
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company G, 139th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 29, 1918 / Age: 22
Killed in action on Sept. 29, 1918.
Grave unlocated.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Lieutenant Colonel Frederick E. Smith
Rockford, IL
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 308th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 29, 1918 / Age: 45
When communication from the forward regimental post of command to the battalion leading the advance had been interrupted temporarily, by the infiltration of small parties of the enemy armed with machine guns, Lieutenant-Colonel Smith personally led a p
1918
Pvt. Fred W. Dietrich
Minnewauken, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 138th Infantry Regiment, 35th Division
Date of Loss: September 29, 1918 / Age: 22
Died on Sept. 29, 1918, of wounds received in Meuse-Argonne.
Buried, Grave 12, Row 25, Block H, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.