State Heroes
World War I (WWI)
1918
Alfred Melvin Peterson
Ambrose, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, Depot Battalion No. 1
Date of Loss: October 18, 1918 / Age: 26
Died of pneumonia, at Camp Dodge, Iowa, on Oct. 18, 1918.
Buried at Ambrose, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Christ Sorlee
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Supply Company, 78th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 18, 1918 / Age: 26
Died of pneumonia at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 18, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt. Martin Christianson
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company M, 349th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 18, 1918 / Age: 29
Died of pneumonia, on Oct. 18, 1918.
Buried, Grave 35, Row 26, 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
Gilford Oliver Olson
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 22nd Company, 6th Battalion, 160th Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 18, 1918 / Age: 21
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 18, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 3, page 2415 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Roy Alfred Dingman
Oelwein, IA
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Troop E, 7th Cavalry, Fort Bliss, Texas
Date of Loss: October 18, 1918 / Age: 21
Died of pneumonia at Fort Bliss, Texas, on Oct. 18, 1918.
Buried at Oelwein, Iowa.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Cpl. William F. Thiele
Chicago, IL
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 11th Company, 3rd Battalion, 160th Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 18, 1918 / Age: 31
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 18, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 4, page 3205 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
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
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
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
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
Byron H. West
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 15th Service Company, Signal Corps, Casual Detachment
Date of Loss: October 17, 1918 / Age: 20
Died of pneumonia, on Oct. 17, 1918.
Remains returned to U. S. Sept. 3, 1920, and buried in Grave 432, National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Archie C. Fortin
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: 29
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 17, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 2, page 955 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Pvt. Leonard M. Kubousek
Minto, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company No. 2, Fort Leavenworth September Automatic Replacement Draft, Signal Corps
Date of Loss: October 17, 1918 / Age: 18
Died of pneumonia, on Oct. 17, 1918.
Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on Oct. 6, 1920, and buried at Minto, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
John A. Smestad
Hatton, 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: 30
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 17, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 4, page 2996 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Pvt. Andy Oliver Berg
Hatton, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 61st Infantry
Date of Loss: October 17, 1918 / Age: 23
Died on Oct. 17, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Remains returned to U. S. on Aug. 15, 1921, and buried in Bethel Congregational Cemetery, Hatton, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
World War I (WWI) Student Army Training Corps (SATC)
1918
Private Friedrich F. Marzolf
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 18, 1918 / Age: 22
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
Buried at Kramer Cemetery, Bottineau County, North Dakota.