State Heroes

Willard Edwin Vestre

Drayton, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Marines

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 49th Company, 5th Regiment

Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 21

Killed in action on Oct. 4, 1918.

Burial, Grave 164, Section 86, Plot 4, Argonne American Cemetery No. 1232. Reinterred, Drayton Cemetery, Drayton, N. Dak.

George William Koth

Sheyenne, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 53rd Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 23

Died of pneumonia, at Camp Hancock, Ga., on Oct. 4, 1918.

Buried at Sheyenne, N. Dak.

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

Oscar Gunlickson

Benedict, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 36th Company, 161st Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 23

Died of pneumonia, at Camp Grant, Ill., on Oct. 4, 1918.

Buried at Benedict, N. Dak.

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

Sgt. Leroy Clark Neathery

Devils Lake, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company L, 164th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 21

Killed in action on Oct. 4, 1918.

Buried in France. Reburied at Devils Lake, N. Dak.

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

Pvt. William Gillson

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 116th Engineer Regiment, 41st Division

Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age:

Charles Eagan

Minot, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 164th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 29

Killed in action on Oct. 4, 1918.

Buried in France. Reburied at Minot, N. Dak.

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

Pvt.1st Class John Tomala

Peirz, MN

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 5th Field Battalion, Signal Corps

Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 24

Killed in action on Oct. 4, 1918.

Buried in France. Reburied at Peirz, Minn.

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

Pvt. John Florhaug

Kensal, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 147th Machine Gun Battalion

Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 25

Killed in action, at Meuse-Argonne, on Oct. 4, 1918.

Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on Oct. 10, 1921, and buried at Kensal, N. Dak.

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

Pvt. Albert O. Kalad

Crookston, MN

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 164th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 26

Killed in action on Oct. 4, 1918.

Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on Aug. 1, 1921, and consigned to Sam Omar, 317 N. Broadway, Crookston, Minn. (placeof burial not given).

Cpl. Richard Albert Burkhardt

Beach, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company K, 164th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 28

Killed in action on Oct. 4, 1918.

Returned to U. S. and buried, Grave 3904, European Section, National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.

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

Jacob Nagel

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 362nd Infantry

Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 21

Died on Oct. 4, 1918, of wounds received in action.

Buried in Grave 27, Row 16, Block C, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

Cpl. Levi Douglas Johnson

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 164th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 25

Killed in action near Exermond, France, on Oct. 4, 1918.

Buried, Grave 5, Row 45, Block B, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

Carl O. Stigen

Field, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 28

Died of influenza on Oct. 4, 1918.

Buried, Field township, Nelson county. N. Dak.

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

Fred Wilson

Holyoke, MA

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company K, 116th Engineers

Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 32

Died of influenza on Oct. 4, 1918.

Buried, Grave 6, Row 30, Block B, Oise-Aisne American Cemetery, Seringes-et-Nesles, Aisne, France.

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

Fred Harold Olson

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Machine Gun Training Center, Cemp Hancock, Ga.

Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 24

Died of influenza on Oct. 4, 1918, at Camp Hancock, Ga.

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