State Heroes

Albert Nansen Olson

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 22

Died of pneumonia at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 10, 1918.

Buried at Dazey, N. Dak.

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

Pvt. George Fritz

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 23

Died of broncho pneumonia, at Camp Hospital No. 26, France, on Oct. 10, 1918.

Buried in US Military Cemetery, Noyes, France. Remains returned to U. S. on Nov. 3, 1920, and buried at Portal, N. Dak.

John Batsch

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company K, 10th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 26

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 10, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 1, page 195 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Walter B. Brown

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 22

Killed in action on Oct. 10, 1918.

Remains returned to U. S. on Oct. 10, 1921, and buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Brainerd, Minn.

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

Pvt.1st Class Almon Burton Coffin

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 27

Died of wounds received in action, Oct. 10, 1918.

Buried in Grave 144, Plot 3, Section E, American Cemetery, Vaubecourt-Meuse, France. Reburied in Arlington Cemetery, Va.

Maurice Verschelde

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Ambulance Company No. 350, 313th Sanitary Train

Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 27

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 10, 1918.

Buried, Grave 25, Row 25, Block G, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Fred W. Skubinna

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Supply Company, 41st Field Artillery

Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 23

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 10, 1918, at Camp Custer, Mich.

Buried, Churchtown, N. Dak.

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

Jacob Jake Unruh

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 33rd Company, 161st Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 21

Died at Camp Grant, Ill., on Oct. 10, 1918.

Buried, Mercer county.

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

Pvt.1st Class Arthur Eugene Shaw

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 23

Killed in action at Argonne Forest, Oct. 10, 1918.

Buried in Grave 8, Row 37, Block C, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

PFC Ralph Armijo Bergan

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 322nd Aero Squadron

Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 25

Died at Urbana, Ill., on Oct. 10, 1918.

Buried at Valley City, N. Dak.

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

Ole Kleven

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 25

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 10, 1918.