State Heroes

Cpl. Edwin P. J. Hagen

Seattle, WA

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company L, 327th Infantry

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

Killed in action on Oct. 12, 1918.

Remains returned to U. S. Oct. 19, 1921, and buried in Evergreen Memorial Park, Seattle, Wash.

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

Pvt. Garrett Hobart Jones

Bantry, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 335th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 22

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

Buried at Vauclaire, France.

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

Charles Schwerdler

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 30

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 12, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 4, page 2895 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

August Bertsch

Wessington, SD

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 31st Company, 8th Battalion, 163rd Depot Brigade

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

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 12, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 1, page 270 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Sam Alfred Haugstad

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery F, 2nd Field Artillery

Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 31

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 1279 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Pvt. Burnis William Hollister

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 326th Infantry Regiment, 82nd Division

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

Killed in action on Oct. 12, 1918.

Buried in Grave 18, Row 32, Block E, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Charles Hugh Boyle

Marinette, WI

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 5th Personnel Office, 163rd Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 31

Died of pneumonia at Camp Dodge, Iowa, on Oct. 12, 1918.

Buried at Marinette, Wis.

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

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.

Holger Tall

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, Development Battalion No. 1

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

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 12, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 4, page 3183 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Harry H. Swontkaski

Ashton, NE

World War I (WWI)

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.