State Heroes

George Leslie Rourke

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Machine Gun Company, 164th Infantry

Date of Loss: July 24, 1918 / Age: 24

Died, July 24, 1918, of wounds received in action.

Buried, Grave 3, Row 6, Block B, Suresnes American Cemetery, Suresnes, Seine, France.

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

Maurice D. Rowe

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 137th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 01, 1918 / Age: 29

Killed in action on Oct. 1, 1918.

Buried, Grave 27, Row 19, Block B, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Freddie Roy

World War I

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.

Olai Rue

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company M, 138th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 02, 1918 / Age: 24

Died on Oct. 2, 1918, of wounds received in action.

Buried, Grave 2, Row 27, Block F, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Pvt.1st Class Jay Rugg

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: June 19, 1918 / Age: 23

Died, June 19, 1918,of wounds received in action.

Buried, Grave 6, Row 23, Block B, Somme American Cemetery, Bony, Aisne, France.

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

Ross S. Ruland

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 313th Engineers

Date of Loss: May 22, 1918 / Age: 26

Died at Camp Dodge, Iowa, on May 22, 1918.

Buried at Glen Ullin, N. Dak.

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

Elmer Ernest Rule

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 9th Observation Battery, Field Artillery, Central Officers Training School, Camp Zachary Taylor, Ky.

Date of Loss: October 25, 1918 / Age:

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 25, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 4, page 2782 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Pvt.1st Class Maynard Leroy Rundell

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company K, 359th Infantry

Date of Loss: September 12, 1918 / Age: 22

Killed in action at St. Mihiel on Sept. 12, 1918.

Remains returned to U. S. on April 17, 1922, and buried at Lakota, N. Dak.

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

Alfred T. Runnestrand

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company M, 356th Infantry

Date of Loss: September 15, 1918 / Age: 25

Killed in action on Sept. 15, 1918.

Buried, Grave 20, Row 26, Block B, St. Mihiel American Cemetery, Thiaucourt, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France.

Alfred T. Running

World War I

Date of Loss: November 11, 1918 / Age:

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

Information NOT found in the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Cpl. Elmer F. Rushfeldt

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 137th Machine Gun Battalion

Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 28

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 14, 1918.

Buried at sea.

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

1st Lt. Thomas Lyle Russell

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 47th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 23

Killed in action on Oct. 4, 1918, at Bois de Brieulles.

Buried, Cemetery No. 735, Bois de Brieulles.