State Heroes
World War I (WWI)
1918
Aron D. Svahn
Lawton, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery E, 42nd Field Artillery
Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 25
Died at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 11, 1918, of pneumonia.
Buried, Lawton, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Valdemar J. Hemmingsen
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery D, 40th Field Artillery
Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of pneumonia at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 11, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND as Valdemar J Hemmingson.
1918
Pvt.1st Class Gerald V. Johnson
Hettinger, ND
World War I (WWI)
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.
1918
Cpl. Claude Bacil Bartow
Petersburg, WI
World War I (WWI)
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.
1918
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.
1918
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.
1918
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.
1918
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.
1918
CQM Pomeroy Smith
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Navy
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Receiving Ship, Pensacola, Fla.
Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 27
Died on Receiving Ship, Pensacola, Fla., on Oct. 11, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt. Herbert A. Rahn
Cavalier, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 18
Died of pneumonia at Grand Forks, N. Dak., on Oct. 11, 1918.
Buried at Cavalier, N. Dak., on Oct. 12, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Joseph G. Kachel
Fried, ND
World War I (WWI)
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.
1918
Pvt. John Edgar Johnson
Homestead, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Machine Gun Company, 127th Infantry
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 2, page 1562 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Ernest William Cardiff
Hillsboro, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 22nd Company, 6th Battalion, 160th Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 25
Died of pneumonia, at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 11, 1918.
Buried at Hillsboro, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt.1st Class Theodore Bernhard Oium
Towner, ND
World War I (WWI)
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.
1918
Adolph R. Pechlat
Wahpeton, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery B 41st Field Artillery
Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 25
Died of Broncho pneumonia at Camp Custer Michigan on October 11, 1918. Buried at St. Joseph's Cemetery, Brushvale, Minnesota.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Freddie Roy
World War I (WWI)
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.