State Heroes
World War I (WWI)
1918
Henry C. Roder
Anamoose, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 10th Detachment, Administration Labor Company
Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 28
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 14, 1918.
Remains returned to U. S. and buried at Anamoose, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Fireman 3c Floyd Albert Cooper
Leith, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Navy
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: USS Mercy
Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 19
Died at Yorktown, Va., on Oct. 14, 1918.
Buried, Leith, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Stephen Swanson
Valley City, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 160th Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of broncho pneumonia, at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 14, 1918.
Buried at Valley City, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND as Stephan Swanson.
1918
Christ G. Roth
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company No. 10, 3rd Battalion, 163rd Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 22
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 2765 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.
1918
Private First Class Arthur C. Miller
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters Company
Regiment / Group / Brigade: 58th Infantry Regiment
Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 25
Died on Oct. 14, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Remains returned to England, and consigned to Stanley R. Miller, 5 Archer St., Kensington, (London S. W. 11), England. (Place of burial unknown).
1918
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.
1918
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. Arthur N. Gorder
Carbury, ND
World War I (WWI)
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.
1918
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.
1918
Jacob P. Kleinsasser
Max, ND
World War I (WWI)
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.
1918
Albert Benedict Ries
Jamestown, ND
World War I (WWI)
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.
1918
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.
1918
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.
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