State Heroes

Sgt. Theodore Joseph Valerius

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 5th Field Battalion, Signal Corps

Date of Loss: January 04, 1918 / Age: 25

Died of pneumonia at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, on Jan. 4, 1918.

Buried at Larimore, N. Dak.

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

Delbert Benjamin Van Allen

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 362nd Infantry

Date of Loss: September 29, 1918 / Age: 25

Killed in action on Sept. 29, 1918.

Buried, Grave 32, Row 23, Block E, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

Pvt. John Van Lishout

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company No. 33, 9th Battalion, 153rd Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: October 02, 1918 / Age: 29

Died on Oct. 2, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 4, page 3327 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Leete Gladstone Van Syckle

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 53rd Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: October 05, 1918 / Age: 26

Died of influenza pneumonia at Camp Hancock, Ga., on Oct. 5, 1918.

Buried at Grand Forks, N. Dak.

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

Albert Vandermeer

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: September 29, 1918 / Age: 23

Killed in action on Sept. 29, 1918.

Buried, Grave 12, Row 11, Block C, 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 Albert T. Vanderwaal

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 348th Machine Gun Battalion

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

Killed in action on Nov. 1, 1918.

Buried, Grave 1, Row 4, Block D, Flanders Field American Cemetery, Waereghem, Belgium.

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

Lauritz Vangerud

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 14th Company, 4th Battalion, 163rd Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: August 04, 1918 / Age: 29

Died at Camp Dodge, Iowa, on Aug. 4, 1918.

Buried, Christiania Cemetery, Kindred, N. Dak.

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

Thor Elias Vatsvik

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 140th Infantry

Date of Loss: September 26, 1918 / Age: 28

Killed in action on Sept. 26, 1918. 

Remains returned to Norway and consigned to Alaphias Vatsvik, Skjareham, Norway. (place of burial not given).

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

Albert Vaughn

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company I (Wahpeton), 1st North Dakota Infantry Regt

Date of Loss: November 03, 1918 / Age: 30

Died on November 3, 1918 of wounds received in action. Remains returned to US on January 3, 1921 and buried at Vestaburg Michigan.

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

Maurice Verschelde

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Ambulance Company No. 350, 313th Sanitary Train

Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 27

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 10, 1918.

Buried, Grave 25, Row 25, Block G, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Wagoner Ray Earl Vessey

World War I

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.

Willard Edwin Vestre

World War I

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.

Aslak Vettrus

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 06, 1918 / Age: 24

Died of pneumonia at Camp Grant, Ill., on Oct. 6, 1918.

Buried, Rolette, N. Dak.

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

Louis John Volesky

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 19th Company, 2nd Group, Motor Truck Detachment, Camp Hancock, Ga.

Date of Loss: October 28, 1918 / Age: 23

Died of influenza on Oct. 28, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 4, page 3351 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Norman Andreas Vorland

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 338th Machine Gun Battalion

Date of Loss: December 02, 1918 / Age: 28

Died of pneumonia, at Toul, France, on Dec. 2, 1918.

Buried, Bommel, Norway.