State Heroes
1918
Sgt. Duncan Wesley Balfour
Milton, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company F, 31st Infantry
Date of Loss: October 21, 1918 / Age: 27
Died at Vladivostok, Siberia, on Oct. 21, 1918.
Buried at Milton, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt.1st Class Ralph G. Ball
St. Thomas, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 38th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Division
Date of Loss: July 29, 1918 / Age: 19
Died on July 29, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Buried, Grave 22, Row 21, Block E, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
1944
Technical Sergeant Leo D. Ballegeer
World War II
Branch of Service: Army
Regiment / Group / Brigade: 109th Infantry Regiment
Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: 28th Infantry Division
Date of Loss: December 19, 1944 / Age: 25
Killed in action during the Battle of the Bulge, Belgium
1918
Pvt. John S. Bannister
Jamestown, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 22
Killed in action, Meuse-Argonne, Oct. 10, 1918.
Remains returned to U. S. on Oct. 17, 1921, and buried in Highland Cemetery, Jamestown, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1944
PFC Vern W. Bardell
Ellendale, NDWorld War II
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 20th Infantry Regiment, 6th Infantry Division
Date of Loss: June 23, 1944 / Age: 28
Killed in action.
1918
Cpl. William Howard Bardsley
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 360th Infantry
Date of Loss: November 02, 1918 / Age: 20
Killed in action on Nov. 2, 1918.
Buried, Grave 21, Row 40, Block A, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1969
Private First Class Gilbert Ray Bargmann
Hannover, ND
Vietnam
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B
Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent: 4th Battalion
Regiment / Group / Brigade: 9th Infantry Regiment
Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent: 25th Infantry Division
Date of Loss: June 19, 1969 / Age: 18
Killed in action in Tay Ninh, South Vietnam in hostile action by small arms fire.
1944
1st Lt. John Barnett
Granville, NDWorld War II
Branch of Service: Air Force
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 343rd Fighter Squadron, 55th Fighter Group
Date of Loss: January 05, 1944 / Age: 25
Killed over Germany.
1918
Pvt. George Otto Barnick
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 362nd Infantry Regiment, 91st Division
Date of Loss: July 23, 1918 / Age: 23
Killed in railroad accident, on July 23, 1918.
Buried, Grave 40, Row 4, Block B, Suresnes American Cemetery, Suresnes, Seine, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1919
F3 Gordon Severin Barr
Valley City, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Navy
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Naval Training Station, Hampton Roads, Va.
Date of Loss: June 08, 1919 / Age: 15
Died of diphtheria at Great Lakes, Ill, on June 8, 1919.
Buried at Valley City, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1945
Electrician's Mate Third Class John A. Barrow
World War II
Branch of Service: Navy
Date of Loss: April 12, 1945 / Age: 21
Killed in action in Okinawa
1918
Ezra William Barrows
Lake Wilson, MNWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Machine Gun Company, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: May 07, 1918 / Age: 22
Killed in action on May 7, 1918.
Buried near Villers, Tournells, Somme, France. Reburied at Lake Wilson, Minn.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND (possibly under Dunn county as Ezra Burrows).
1917
William W. Grover Cleveland Barry
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 10th Battalion, Canadian Infantry
Date of Loss: November 11, 1917 / Age: 26
Killed in action in Flanders, on Nov. 11, 1917.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 1, page 183 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1919
Johan Alfred Barstad
Nome, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Provost Guard Company
Date of Loss: January 02, 1919 / Age: 27
Died of pneumonia, at Camp Custer, Mich., on Jan. 2, 1919.
Buried at Nome, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND as John E Barstad.
1953
Private First Class Harry James Barth
Almont, ND
Korean War
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery C
Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent: 235th Field Artillery Observation Battalion
Date of Loss: June 11, 1953 / Age: 20
Listed as Missing in Action, while assigned to an observation post near Sok Chang-Ni N. Korea, which had been subjected to heavy mortar & artillery barrages. On June 11, 1953, his status was changed to Killed in Action Remains Not Recovered.