State Heroes

First Lieutenant Samuel Lee Avis

Jamestown, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Engineers

Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 28

Died at Camp Humphreys, Va., of influenza and pneumonia, on Oct. 12, 1918.

Place of burial, Jamestown, N. Dak.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

Holger Tall

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, Development Battalion No. 1

Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 27

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 12, 1918.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

Information found in Volume 4, page 3183 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Albert Olson

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 128th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 24

Killed in action on Oct. 12, 1918.

Buried in Grave 28, Row 22, Block D, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

Sigurjon Benedict Sigfusson

Mountain, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery C, 40th Field Artillery

Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 25

Died of broncho pneumonia, at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 12, 1918.

Buried at Mountain, N. Dak.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND as Sugurjon Sigfusson.

Knute Holberg

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 34th Company, 161st Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 27

Died of influenza, on Oct. 12, 1918.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

Information found in Volume 2, page 1387 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Paul John Soberg

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 38th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 24

Killed in action on Oct. 12, 1918.

Buried, Grave 30, Row 7, Block C, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

Cpl. Bernhard Nelson

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 61st Infantry

Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 23

Killed in action on Oct. 12, 1918.

Buried, Grave 36, Row 9, Block E, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

Clarence Henry Fjerstad

Cannon Falls, MN

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company G, 118th Engineers

Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 26

Died of pneumonia, at Bellecreek, Minn., on Oct. 12, 1918.

Buried at Cannon Falls, Minn.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND under Eddy county.

Edwin T Aas

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company G, 14th Ammunition Train

Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 25

Died of bronchial pneumonia, on Oct. 12, 1918.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

Information found in Volume 1, page 9 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Rasmus Rasmussen Skriver

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 23rd Infantry

Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 26

Died, Oct. 12, 1918, of wounds received in action.

Buried, Grave 25, Row 10, Block A, St. Mihiel American Cemetery, Thiaucourt, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

Harry Eugene Lahman

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 338th Machine Gun Battalion

Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 24

Killed in action on Oct. 12, 1918.

Buried in Grave 35, Row 23, Block E, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

Ralph Mann

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company I, 308th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 28

Killed in action on Oct. 12, 1918.

Buried at Verdun, France.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

Robert Kurtz

Kulm, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Air Service

Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 22

Died of pneumonia at Fort Wayne, Mich., on Oct. 12, 1918.

Buried at Kulm, N. Dak.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

Ole Langehaug

Bottineau, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company G, 128th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 24

Killed in action, on Oct. 12, 1918.

Remains returned to U. S. on Aug. 16, 1921, and buried in Nordlands Cemetery, Bottineau, N. Dak.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND under Cass county.

Pvt. Louis Christian Jensen

Ryder, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 14th Company, Camp A. A. Humphreys September Automatic Replacement Draft

Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 41

Died at Brest, France, of broncho pneumonia, on Oct. 12, 1918.

Buried, Grave 8, Row 30, Block D, Oise-Aisne American Cemtery, Seringes-et-Nesles, Aisne, France.

Joseph G. Kachel

Fried, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 22nd Company, 6th Battalion, 160th Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 28

Died of pneumonia, at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 11, 1918.

Buried at Fried, N. Dak.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.