State Heroes
World War I (WWI)
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
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
GM2c George Albert Boyer
Chippewa Falls, WI
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Navy
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Naval Hospital, Charleston, S. C.
Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 26
Died in Naval Hospital, Charleston, S. C., on Oct. 10, 1918.
Buried, Chippewa Falls, Wis.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND as Albert Boyer.
1918
Johannes Frederick Jagd
Valley City, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery B, 42nd Field Artillery
Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 29
Died of pneumonia, at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 10, 1918.
Buried at Valley City, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Magnus Eugene Alen
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company M, 77th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 28
Died on Oct. 10, 1918, of bronchial pneumonia.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Adolph Peter
Garrison, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 78th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 27
Died of pneumonia at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 10, 1918.
Buried at Garrison, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt.1st Class Lauren Paul Wirkus
Minto, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 5th Field Battalion, Signal Corps
Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 23
Killed in action on Oct. 10, 1918.
Buried, Grave 26, Row 4, Block H, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Herbert Edwin Schwartz
New Salem, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Supply Company, 78th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of pneumonia, at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 10, 1918.
Burial, New Salem, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Gustav Carlson
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 14th Company, 163rd Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 28
Died of influenza on Oct. 10, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 1, page 500 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Wagoner Ray Earl Vessey
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters Company, 339th Machine Gun Battalion
Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 26
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 10, 1918.
Buried, Grave 29, Row 23, 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
Albert Nansen Olson
Dazey, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery C, 42nd Field Artillery
Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 22
Died of pneumonia at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 10, 1918.
Buried at Dazey, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt.1st Class Richard Jonathon Carlson
Derrick, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 352nd Infantry
Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of pneumonia, on Oct. 10, 1918.
Remains returned to U. S. on June 6, 1921, and consigned to P. T. Carlson, Parkers Prairie, Minn. (place of burial not given).
1918
Walter B. Brown
Brainerd, MN
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 22
Killed in action on Oct. 10, 1918.
Remains returned to U. S. on Oct. 10, 1921, and buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Brainerd, Minn.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
John Batsch
Cleveland, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company K, 10th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 26
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 10, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 1, page 195 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Fred W. Skubinna
Churchtown, NDWorld War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Supply Company, 41st Field Artillery
Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 10, 1918, at Camp Custer, Mich.
Buried, Churchtown, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.