State Heroes
World War I
1918
Ole Melvin Morken
Pekin, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 2nd Machine Gun Battalion
Date of Loss: October 01, 1918 / Age: 26
Killed in action on Oct. 1, 1918.
Buried, Grave 14, Row 25, Block A, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt. Emil Henry Kaehn
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 137th Infantry Regiment, 35th Division
Date of Loss: October 01, 1918 / Age: 22
Missing in Action or Buried at Sea.
Killed in action on Oct. 1, 1918.
Grave unlocated. Tablets of the Missing at Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne, France
1918
Sgt. Jean Haywood Pearl
Mound, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters, 4th Sanitary Train
Date of Loss: October 01, 1918 / Age: 32
Died on Oct. 1, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Buried in France. Reburied at Mound, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Maurice D. Rowe
Hamilton, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 137th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 01, 1918 / Age: 29
Killed in action on Oct. 1, 1918.
Buried, Grave 27, Row 19, Block B, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Christ Sortland
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company F, 138th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 01, 1918 / Age: 24
Killed in action on Oct. 1, 1918.
Buried, Grave 32, Section 18, Block 1, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France. Remains returned to Norway, and consigned to Ole John Sortland, Bergen, Norway.
1918
Pvt. Eugene P. Brasseur
Thorne, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 138th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 01, 1918 / Age: 23
Died in Base Hospital No. 66, at Neufchateau, France, on Oct. 1, 1918, of wounds received in action.
1918
Frank Percy Gaines
Berthold, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 37th Machine Gun Battalion
Date of Loss: September 30, 1918 / Age: 25
Died of pneumonia, at Camp Lewis, Wash., on Sept. 30, 1918.
Buried at Berthold, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt. Henry Krohn
Omemee, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 140th Infantry Regiment, 35th Division
Date of Loss: September 30, 1918 / Age: 24
Killed in action on Sept. 30, 1918, at Meuse-Argonne.
Buried in Grave 19, Row 35, Block A, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
1918
Pvt. Alfred Jens Jacob Hanson
Wahpeton, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 140th Infantry Regiment, 35th Division
Date of Loss: September 30, 1918 / Age: 27
Died on Sept. 30, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Buried, Grave 13, Row 17, Block C, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
1918
Pvt. Angus Guy John
Gandy, NEWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 139th Infantry Regiment, 35th Division
Date of Loss: September 30, 1918 / Age: 27
Killed in action in the Argonne campaign, France, Sept. 30, 1918.
Buried, Grave 36, Row 4, Block D, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
1918
Cpl. Royal Osmer Gray
Lakota, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 47th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 30, 1918 / Age: 22
Killed in action on Sept. 30, 1918.
Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on Sept. 19, 1921, and buried at Lakota, N. Dak.
1918
Pvt. Helmer Ellenson
Gardiner [sic] (possibly Gardner or Gardiner, MT), NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 138th Infantry Regiment, 35th Division
Date of Loss: September 30, 1918 / Age: 23
Died on Sept. 30, 1918, of wounds received in Meuse-Argonne Offensive.
Buried, Grave 34, Row 18, Block F, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
1918
Fred Casebeer
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 137th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 30, 1918 / Age: 25
Killed in action on Sept. 30, 1918.
Buried, Grave 34, Row 39, Block H, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt. Edward Anton Broberg
Aneta, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 140th Infantry Regiment, 35th Division
Date of Loss: September 30, 1918 / Age: 27
Killed in action on Sept. 30, 1918.
Buried, Grave 15, Row 17, Block E, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
1918
PFC George Lawrence Schroeder
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company L, 39th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 30, 1918 / Age: 24
Killed in action, in Meuse-Argonne, on Sept. 30, 1918.
Buried in Grave 9, Row 43, Block B, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.