State Heroes

Willard Edwin Vestre

World War I

Branch of Service: Marines

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 49th Company, 5th Regiment

Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 21

Killed in action on Oct. 4, 1918.

Burial, Grave 164, Section 86, Plot 4, Argonne American Cemetery No. 1232. Reinterred, Drayton Cemetery, Drayton, N. Dak.

Pvt. Albert O. Kalad

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 26

Killed in action on Oct. 4, 1918.

Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on Aug. 1, 1921, and consigned to Sam Omar, 317 N. Broadway, Crookston, Minn. (placeof burial not given).

Sgt. Leroy Clark Neathery

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 21

Killed in action on Oct. 4, 1918.

Buried in France. Reburied at Devils Lake, N. Dak.

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

Charles Eagan

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 29

Killed in action on Oct. 4, 1918.

Buried in France. Reburied at Minot, N. Dak.

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

Pvt.1st Class John Tomala

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 5th Field Battalion, Signal Corps

Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 24

Killed in action on Oct. 4, 1918.

Buried in France. Reburied at Peirz, Minn.

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

Jacob Nagel

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 362nd Infantry

Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 21

Died on Oct. 4, 1918, of wounds received in action.

Buried in Grave 27, Row 16, Block C, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

Pvt. Bernard S. Bredell

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 18th Infantry Regiment, 1st Division

Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age:

Fred Harold Olson

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Machine Gun Training Center, Cemp Hancock, Ga.

Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 24

Died of influenza on Oct. 4, 1918, at Camp Hancock, Ga.

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

Carl O. Stigen

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 34th Company, 161st Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 28

Died of influenza on Oct. 4, 1918.

Buried, Field township, Nelson county. N. Dak.

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

Fred Wilson

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company K, 116th Engineers

Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 32

Died of influenza on Oct. 4, 1918.

Buried, Grave 6, Row 30, Block B, Oise-Aisne American Cemetery, Seringes-et-Nesles, Aisne, France.

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

Ermiston Oscar Douglas

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 34th Company, 161st Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: October 03, 1918 / Age: 21

Died of pneumonia, at Camp Grant, Ill., on Oct. 3, 1918.

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

Gilman Morstad

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company G, 47th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 03, 1918 / Age: 29

Died on Oct. 3, 1918, of wounds received in action.

Buried, Grave 2, Row 19, Block A, Suresnes American Cemetery, Suresnes, Seine, France.

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

Freeman L. Gravley

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 03, 1918 / Age: 22

Died of broncho pneumonia on Oct. 3, 1918, at Camp Custer, Mich.

Buried at Sargent, Minn.

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

John L. Larson

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 110th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 03, 1918 / Age: 25

Died on Oct. 3, 1918, of wounds received in action.

Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on Oct. 17, 1921, and buried in South Beef River Cemetery, Garfield, Wis.

William Melum

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Medical Department

Date of Loss: October 03, 1918 / Age: 28

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 3, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 3, page 2136 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.