State Heroes

Hjalmer Joakim Hanson

Fertile, MN

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company G, 5th Limited Service Regiment, 161st Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 30

Died of pneumonia, on Oct. 11, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 2, page 1232 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Pvt.1st Class Edwin Wittmayer

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 19

Killed in action on Oct. 11, 1918.

Buried, Grave 39, Row 41, Block B, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Henry G Bartholomaus

Leonard, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 78th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 27

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

Buried at Leonard, N. Dak.

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

Clyde Earl Wortman

Hixton, WI

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 313th Military Police

Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 24

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 11, 1918.

Buried, Grave 10, Row 22, Block H, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Clarence B. Snow

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 10th Company, 3rd Battalion, 160th Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 31

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 11, 1918.

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

Lars M. Lundberg

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 77th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 24

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 11, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 3, page 1956 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Henry William Sumner

Fingal, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 16th Company, 4th Battalion, 163rd Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 23

Died at Camp Dodge, Iowa, on Oct. 11, 1918, of pneumonia.

Buried, Fingal, N. Dak.

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

Pvt.1st Class Gerald V. Johnson

Hettinger, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 326th Infantry Regiment, 82nd Division

Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 22

Killed in action on Oct. 11, 1918.

Buried, Grave 4, Row 13, Block E, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Cpl. Claude Bacil Bartow

Petersburg, WI

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 327th Infantry Regiment, 82nd Division

Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 22

Killed in action, on Oct. 11, 1918.

Buried in Grave 16, Row 8, Block B, Argonne-American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Valdemar J. Hemmingsen

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 23

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

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND as Valdemar J Hemmingson.

Aron D. Svahn

Lawton, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery E, 42nd Field Artillery

Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 25

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

Buried, Lawton, N. Dak.

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

Harry H. Swontkaski

Ashton, NE

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 37th Company, 10th Battalion, 160th Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 22

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 11, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 4, page 3178 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Andrew Clauson

Harlow, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, Development Battalion No. 1, 163rd Depot Brigade

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

Died of pneumonia at Camp Dodge, Iowa, on Oct. 11, 1918.

Buried at Harlow, N. Dak.

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

Name included in the "WWI Centenial" book. Benson County.

CQM Pomeroy Smith

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Navy

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Receiving Ship, Pensacola, Fla.

Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 27

Died on Receiving Ship, Pensacola, Fla., on Oct. 11, 1918.

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

Pvt. John Edgar Johnson

Homestead, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Machine Gun Company, 127th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 22

Died of pneumonia, on Oct. 11, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 2, page 1562 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

George W. C. Horn

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

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

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

Died of pneumonia, on Oct. 11, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 2, page 1415 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.