State Heroes
World War I (WWI)
1918
Walter Gustav Daschner
Hunter, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery D, 40th Field Artillery
Date of Loss: October 17, 1918 / Age: 22
Died of pneumonia, at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 17, 1918.
Buried at Hunter, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Vivian James Olmstead
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery A, 42nd Field Artillery
Date of Loss: October 17, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 17, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 3, page 2395 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
John P. Lacher
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 128th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 17, 1918 / Age: 23
Killed in action on Oct. 17, 1918.
Buried in France. Grave unlocated.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
John Fred Thielmann
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company G, 5th Limited Service Regiment
Date of Loss: October 17, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 17, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND as John F Thieland.
1918
Charles Arthur Howard
Hope, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery F, 41st Field Artillery
Date of Loss: October 17, 1918 / Age: 28
Died of broncho pneumonia, at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 17, 1918.
Buried at Hope, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Private Hans Adolph Anderson
Clarion, IA
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Regiment / Group / Brigade: 111th Infantry Regiment
Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: 28th Division
Date of Loss: October 17, 1918 / Age: 26
Killed in action on Oct. 17, 1918.
Buried, Grave 18, Row 32, Block D, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt. Fred Kelle
Napoleon, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 128th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Division
Date of Loss: October 17, 1918 / Age: 24
Killed in action on Oct. 17, 1918.
Buried in Grave No. 27, Row 37, Block E, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
George Texel
Ross, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 210th Engineers
Date of Loss: October 17, 1918 / Age: 22
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 17, 1918, at Camp Funston, Kans.
Buried, Ross, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Mess Sergeant Don Alfred Whitmore
Drayton, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B
Regiment / Group / Brigade: 348th Infantry Regiment
Date of Loss: October 16, 1918 / Age: 28
Died of influenza on Oct. 16, 1918.
Buried in American Cemetery No. 25, in Grave No. 336, Section B, at Galence, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Ralph Ellis Olinger
Erie, IL
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 313th Military Police
Date of Loss: October 16, 1918 / Age: 25
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 16, 1918.
Remains returned to U. S. on June 6, 1921, and buried in Erie Cemetery, Erie, Ill.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Cpl. Joseph Wilbur Hemrick
Volga, SD
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery A, 40th Field Artillery
Date of Loss: October 16, 1918 / Age: 27
Died of pneumonia at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 16, 1918.
Buried at Volga, S. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
John Wesley Williams
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 307th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 16, 1918 / Age: 27
Killed in action on Oct. 16, 1918.
Buried, Grave 26, Row 15, 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
Arthur Alfred Lindberg
Grand Forks, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 338th Machine Gun Battalion
Date of Loss: October 16, 1918 / Age: 25
Died of pneumonia at La Grande, France, on Oct. 16, 1918.
Buried, Chantville, France; reburied at Grand Forks, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Sgt. Oscar Erickson
Grafton, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 6th Engineers
Date of Loss: October 16, 1918 / Age: 30
Died on Oct. 16, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Buried in France. Reburied, Grave 3211, European Section, National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Joseph J. Oien
Boyd, MN
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 139th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 16, 1918 / Age: 22
Died on Oct. 16, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Buried, Grave 37, Row 9, Block B, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
1918
AMM1 Nels Edward Henderson
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Navy
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Naval Air Station, Rockaway Beach
Date of Loss: October 16, 1918 / Age: 23
Died at Rockaway Beach, L. I., N. Y., on Oct. 16, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND under Divide county.