State Heroes

Bert M. Johnson

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company I, 308th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 08, 1918 / Age: 25

Killed in action, at Argonne Forest on Oct. 8, 1918.

Buried in Grave 3, Section 94, Plot No. 1, Argonne-American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

Cpl. Theodore Albert Oukrop

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 08, 1918 / Age: 18

Killed in action on Oct. 8, 1918.

Grave unlocated.

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

Fred Rott

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company G, 149th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 08, 1918 / Age: 23

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 8, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 4, page 2767 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Pvt. Orville LeRoy Knoph

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 08, 1918 / Age: 17

Killed in action, Oct. 8, 1918.

Buried in Grave No. 10, Row 28, Block G, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Pvt. Eugene Farnam

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 313th Sanitary Train

Date of Loss: October 07, 1918 / Age: 26

Died of influenza on Oct. 7, 1918.

Buried, Harricourt, France, Grave 50. Remains returned to U. S. Oct. 31, 1921, and buried at Inkster, N. Dak.

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

John Tillett

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 23rd Infantry

Date of Loss: October 07, 1918 / Age: 24

Died on Oct. 7, 1918, of wounds received in action.

Buried, Grave 3, Row 23, Block H, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Lars Helgeson Opedal

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 33rd Company, 161st Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: October 07, 1918 / Age: 29

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 7, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 3, page 2442 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Ernest William Hartmann

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 78th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 07, 1918 / Age: 22

Died of pneumonia, at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 7, 1918.

Buried at New Salem, N. Dak.

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

PFC Louis T. Grovum

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 07, 1918 / Age: 34

Died on Oct. 7, 1918, of wounds received in action.

Buried, Grave 13, Row 11, Block N, St. Mihiel American Cemetery, Thiaucourt, Meaurthe-et-Moselle, France.

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

Cpl. Irwin Elmer Gainer

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 07, 1918 / Age: 24

Died on Oct. 7, 1918, of wounds received in action.

Buried in France. Reburied at Hydepark, Pembina county, N. Dak.

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

Willie Willprecht

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 07, 1918 / Age: 25

Died of Pneumonia on October 7, 1918 at Camp Grant Illinois.

Buried Lidgerwood, Richland County, North Dakota.

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

Cpl. Stanford Amick Myers

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 07, 1918 / Age: 30

Killed in action on Oct. 7, 1918.

Buried, Grave 35, Row 10, Block E, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Joseph Prchal

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 07, 1918 / Age: 23

Died of bronchial pneumonia on Oct. 7, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 3, page 2603 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Olaf Dybdal

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company K, 139th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 07, 1918 / Age: 28

Died, Oct. 7, 1918, of wounds received in action.

Buried, Grave 157, Row 12, Block 4, Argonne-American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France. Reburied, McLeod, N. Dak.

Clyde Verdi Claflin

World War I

Branch of Service: Navy

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Dunwoody Naval Training Institute

Date of Loss: October 07, 1918 / Age: 20

Died at Minneapolis, Minn., on Oct. 7, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 1, page 562 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.