State Heroes
World War I
Pvt.1st Class Theodore Bernhard Oium
Towner, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 14th Ammunition Train
Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 30
Died of pneumonia at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 11, 1918.
Buried at Towner, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Joseph G. Kachel
Fried, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 22nd Company, 6th Battalion, 160th Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 28
Died of pneumonia, at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 11, 1918.
Buried at Fried, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Fred Meidinger
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, Development Battalion No. 1
Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 23
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 2127 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
Edwin H. Tryhus
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery F, 41st Field Artillery
Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of broncho pneumonia at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 11, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Freddie Roy
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 34th Company, 161st Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 21
Died of pneumonia at Camp Grant, Ill., on Oct. 11, 1918.
Buried at Osnabrock, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Leonard Carson House
Garrison, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, Military Police, 14th Division
Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 27
Died of pneumonia, on Oct. 11, 1918, at Camp Custer, Mich.
Burial, Garrison, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Andor Evanson
Pelican Rapids, MNWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 36th Training Company, 161st Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 22
Died of pneumonia, on Oct. 11, 1918.
Buried, Pelican Rapids, Minn.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Joseph Alexander Preshard
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 36th Company, 9th Battalion, 163rd Depot Brigade
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 3, page 2605 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
John C. Throngard
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 16th Company, 160th Depot Brigade
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 4, page 3244 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
Harry H. Swontkaski
Ashton, NEWorld War I
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.
Ralph Linden Helmer
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 34th Company, 161st Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 24
Died of pneumonia, at Camp Grant, Ill., on Oct. 11, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
George G. Cook
Cando, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 77th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 11, 1918.
Buried at Cando, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND as George C Cook.

Pvt.1st Class Gerald V. Johnson
Hettinger, NDWorld War I
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.
Harold Alf Rorwick
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company F, 10th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 23
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 2755 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Cpl. Claude Bacil Bartow
Petersburg, WIWorld War I
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.