State Heroes

Ralph McGarvey

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 104th Engineers

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

Died on Oct. 19, 1918, of wounds received in action.

Buried in French Cemetery. Re-buried at Bismarck, N. Dak.

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

Pvt. Martin Christianson

World War I

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.

Roy Alfred Dingman

World War I

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.

Cpl. William F. Thiele

World War I

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.

Gilford Oliver Olson

World War I

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.

Arthur Edwin Erickson

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 40th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 18, 1918 / Age: 22

Died of pneumonia at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 18, 1918.

Buried at Bowman, N. Dak.

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

Arthur Walter Peterson

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 18, 1918 / Age: 23

Died of pneumonia, on Oct. 18, 1918, at Camp Custer, Mich.

Buried, Lucy Township, Burke county, N. Dak.

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

Alfred Melvin Peterson

World War I

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.

Michael Holsbrekken

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 20th Battalion, US Guards

Date of Loss: October 18, 1918 / Age: 25

Died on Oct. 18, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 2, page 1400 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Christ Sorlee

World War I

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.

Walter Johnson

Branch of Service: Army

Date of Loss: October 17, 1918 / Age:

Died at Army Training Corps

Vivian James Olmstead

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 17, 1918 / Age: 23

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 17, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 3, page 2395 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

John P. Lacher

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 17, 1918 / Age: 23

Killed in action on Oct. 17, 1918.

Buried in France. Grave unlocated.

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

John Fred Thielmann

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company G, 5th Limited Service Regiment

Date of Loss: October 17, 1918 / Age: 23

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 17, 1918.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND as John F Thieland.

Private Friedrich F. Marzolf

World War I

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