State Heroes

Pvt. Joseph E. Appert

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: September 29, 1918 / Age: 22

Killed in action, at Gesnes, France, on Sept. 29, 1918.

Remains returned to U. S. June 14, 1921, and buried at Hazelton, N. Dak.

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

Pvt.1st Class Mervin John Armstrong

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: July 18, 1918 / Age: 20

Died on July 18, 1918, of wounds received in action.

Buried in France. Reburied in Grave No. 1118, Arlington National Cemetery, Va.

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

Pvt. Ole K. Arneson

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: May 18, 1918 / Age: 21

Killed in action on May 18, 1918.

Buried in Grave 13, Row 13, Block C, Somme American Cemetery, Bony, Aisne, France.

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

Pvt. Einar A. Arneson

Wounded in Action.

Carl Alfred Arneson

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 1st Battalion, 163rd Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: May 09, 1918 / Age: 29

Died of broncho pneumonia on May 9, 1918.

Buried at Coulee, N. Dak.

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

Pvt. Jacob L. Askildson

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 138th Infantry Regiment, 35th Division

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

Killed in action on Sept. 28, 1918.

Buried, Grave 37, Row 3, Block D, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Carl Melvin Askin

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company I, 348th Infantry

Date of Loss: January 16, 1918 / Age: 22

Died of broncho pneumonia, at Camp Pike, Ark., on Jan. 16, 1918.

Buried at LaMoure, N. Dak.

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

Pvt. Gunder Aslakson

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company I, 352nd Infantry

Date of Loss: October 20, 1918 / Age: 28

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 20, 1918.

Buried in French Military Cemetery, Trauack (Alsace). Remains returned to U. S. on Oct. 1, 1921, and buried at Webster, N. Dak.

1st Lt. Samuel Lee Avis

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Engineers

Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 28

Died at Camp Humphreys, Va., of influenza and pneumonia, on Oct. 12, 1918.

Place of burial, Jamestown, N. Dak.

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

Clyde D. Axtell

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery B, 336th Field Artillery

Date of Loss: January 10, 1918 / Age: 23

Died of broncho pneumonia, at Camp Pike, Ark., on Jan. 10, 1918.

Buried at Elgin, N. Dak.

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

Pvt.1st Class John Cretus Baar

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 06, 1918 / Age: 22

Killed in action on Oct. 6, 1918.

Buried in Grave 40, Row 25, 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. Stephen Abel Babcock

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 137th Infantry Regiment, 35th Division

Date of Loss: September 28, 1918 / Age: 29

Killed in action on Sept. 28, 1918.

Buried, Grave 38, Row 7, Block E, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Pvt. Michael Babich

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Division

Date of Loss: November 18, 1918 / Age: 27

Died on Nov. 18, 1918, of wounds received in action.

Buried, Grave 17, Row 5, Block H, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

Private Sophus Goodman Arman

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Student Army Training Corps UND Grand Forks ND

Date of Loss: October 27, 1918 / Age: 20

Died while serving as a member of the Student Army Training Corps  on the UND campus in Grand Forks during the 1918 flu pandemic. Name included on the UND S.A.T.C.

Sergeant Frank M. Armstrong

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Student Army Training Corps UND Grand Forks ND

Date of Loss: October 29, 1918 / Age: 31

Died of pnuemonia while serving as a member of the Student Army Training Corps  on the UND campus in Grand Forks North Dakota during the 1918 flu pandemic. Name included on the UND S.A.T.C. website