State Heroes
World War I (WWI)
1918
John Nelson Stearns
Crystal, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 14th Company, Military Truck Division, Machine Gun Training Center
Date of Loss: October 05, 1918 / Age: 31
Died of influenza on Oct. 5, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 4, page 3080 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Cpl. John Newton Clayton
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 26th Infantry Regiment, 1st Division
Date of Loss: October 05, 1918 / Age:
1918
Anton Amundson
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 33rd Company
Regiment / Group / Brigade: 161st Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 26
Died of lobar pneumonia on Oct. 4, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 1, page 47 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Private William Gillson
Branch of Service: Army
Regiment / Group / Brigade: 116th Engineer Regiment
Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: 41st Division
Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age:
1918
Pvt.1st Class Henry Johnson
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 24
Killed in action on Oct. 4, 1918.
Buried in Grave 17, Row 8, Block D, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Joseph William Kusie
Dickinson, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Marines
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 5th Separate Battalion
Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 23
Wounded in action on Oct. 3, 1918, and died on Oct. 4, 1918.
Buried in Miomandre Hospital Cemetery, Suippes (Marne), France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Nicholas Emil Resler
Leroy, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company F, 306th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 23
Died on Oct. 4, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on Aug. 4, 1921, and buried in Grave 1985, European Section, Arlington National Cemetery, Va.
1918
Pvt.1st Class John Tomala
Peirz, MN
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 5th Field Battalion, Signal Corps
Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 24
Killed in action on Oct. 4, 1918.
Buried in France. Reburied at Peirz, Minn.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND under Divide county.
1918
Pvt. John Florhaug
Kensal, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 147th Machine Gun Battalion
Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 25
Killed in action, at Meuse-Argonne, on Oct. 4, 1918.
Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on Oct. 10, 1921, and buried at Kensal, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Vivian Butler Davies
Marshall, IN
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery C, 316th Field Artillery
Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 25
Died of pneumonia, on Oct. 4, 1918.
Remains returned to U. S. Oct. 19, 1921, and buried at Marshall, Ind.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Ludvig Gerhard Meling
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company K, 28th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 28
Killed in action on Oct. 4, 1918.
Grave Unlocated.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Cpl. Richard Albert Burkhardt
Beach, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company K, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 28
Killed in action on Oct. 4, 1918.
Returned to U. S. and buried, Grave 3904, European Section, National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Willard Edwin Vestre
Drayton, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Marines
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 49th Company, 5th Regiment
Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 21
Killed in action on Oct. 4, 1918.
Burial, Grave 164, Section 86, Plot 4, Argonne American Cemetery No. 1232. Reinterred, Drayton Cemetery, Drayton, N. Dak.
1918
Corporal Levi Douglas Johnson
Ayr, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D
Regiment / Group / Brigade: 18th Infantry Regiment
Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 25
Killed in action near Exermond, France, on Oct. 4, 1918.
Buried, Grave 5, Row 45, Block B, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
1918
George William Koth
Sheyenne, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 53rd Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of pneumonia, at Camp Hancock, Ga., on Oct. 4, 1918.
Buried at Sheyenne, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Oscar Gunlickson
Benedict, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 36th Company, 161st Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of pneumonia, at Camp Grant, Ill., on Oct. 4, 1918.
Buried at Benedict, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.