State Heroes

Clarence Grina

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company F, 11th Depot Battalion, Signal Corps

Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 24

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 12, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 2, page 1121 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

First Lieutenant Samuel Lee Avis

Jamestown, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Engineers

Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 28

Died at Camp Humphreys, Va., of influenza and pneumonia, on Oct. 12, 1918.

Place of burial, Jamestown, N. Dak.

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

Albert Olson

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 24

Killed in action on Oct. 12, 1918.

Buried in Grave 28, Row 22, Block D, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

Edwin T Aas

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company G, 14th Ammunition Train

Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 25

Died of bronchial pneumonia, on Oct. 12, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 1, page 9 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Knute Holberg

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 27

Died of influenza, on Oct. 12, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 2, page 1387 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Sigurjon Benedict Sigfusson

Mountain, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 25

Died of broncho pneumonia, at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 12, 1918.

Buried at Mountain, N. Dak.

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

Paul John Soberg

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 38th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 24

Killed in action on Oct. 12, 1918.

Buried, Grave 30, Row 7, Block C, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Ole Langehaug

Bottineau, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 24

Killed in action, on Oct. 12, 1918.

Remains returned to U. S. on Aug. 16, 1921, and buried in Nordlands Cemetery, Bottineau, N. Dak.

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

Pvt. Louis Christian Jensen

Ryder, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 14th Company, Camp A. A. Humphreys September Automatic Replacement Draft

Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 41

Died at Brest, France, of broncho pneumonia, on Oct. 12, 1918.

Buried, Grave 8, Row 30, Block D, Oise-Aisne American Cemtery, Seringes-et-Nesles, Aisne, France.

Cpl. Bernhard Nelson

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 61st Infantry

Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 23

Killed in action on Oct. 12, 1918.

Buried, Grave 36, Row 9, Block E, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Horace Mann Jones Jr.

Fargo, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Medical Department

Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 18

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 12, 1918.

Buried at Fargo, N. Dak.

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

Andrew Clauson

Harlow, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, Development Battalion No. 1, 163rd Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 28

Died of pneumonia at Camp Dodge, Iowa, on Oct. 11, 1918.

Buried at Harlow, N. Dak.

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

Name included in the "WWI Centenial" book. Benson County.

George W. C. Horn

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company F, 14th Ammunition Train

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 2, page 1415 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Edwin H. Tryhus

World War I (WWI)

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.

Aloysius Georges Schwan

Langdon, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 2nd Training Battalion, Signal Corps

Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 22

Died of influenza at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., on Oct. 11, 1918.

Buried, Langdon, N. Dak.

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