State Heroes
World War I
1918
Otto Berglund
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company G, Development Battalion No. 2
Date of Loss: October 06, 1918 / Age: 29
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 6, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 1, page 258 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Carl Elmer Bergstoe
Milnor, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company L, 50th Infantry
Date of Loss: May 23, 1918 / Age: 19
Died of measles and broncho pneumonia, at Walter Reed Hospital, Washington, D. C., on May 23, 1918.
Buried at Milnor, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1919
Pvt. Fred William Berner
Jamestown, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 21st Engineers
Date of Loss: April 02, 1919 / Age: 25
Died of pneumonia, on April 2, 1919, at Base Hospital No. 87, Toul, Meuse.
Remains returned to U. S. on May 23, 1921, and buried in Grave 1770, National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
1918
August Bertsch
Wessington, SDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 31st Company, 8th Battalion, 163rd Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 12, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 1, page 270 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Roy F. Beyers
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.
1918
Pvt. Henry Biffart
Hebron, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 321st Infantry Regiment, 81st Division
Date of Loss: November 11, 1918 / Age: 22
Killed in action, on Nov. 11, 1918.
Buried, Grave 1, Row 5, Block D, St. Mihiel American Cemetery, Thiaucourt, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Oliver Martin Biggs
Adrian, MIWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 4th Company, 1st Battalion, 163rd Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: June 21, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of pneumonia, on June 21, 1918, at Camp Dodge, Iowa.
Buried at Adrian, Mich.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Teamster Robert R. Bigham
Dunseith, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: United States Disciplinary Barracks, Quartermaster Corps, Fort Leavenworth, Kans.
Date of Loss: December 13, 1918 / Age: 37
Died of pneumonia at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., on Dec. 13, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt.1st Class Loe James Billings
Lisbon, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 303rd Field Signal Battalion
Date of Loss: October 22, 1918 / Age: 29
Killed in action on Oct. 22, 1918.
Buried in France. Reburied at Lisbon, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Cpl. George Murdock Bissett
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 58th Infantry Regiment, 4th Division
Date of Loss: October 07, 1918 / Age: 29
Killed in action at Argonne, France, on Oct. 7, 1918.
Buried in Grave 16, Row 5, Block D, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
1918
Cook Clair Louis Bixby
Brainerd, MNWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company K, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: July 04, 1918 / Age: 24
Died in France, of pneumonia, on July 4, 1918.
Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on Oct. 26, 1920, and buried at Brainerd, Minn.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1916
Karl Oscar Bjerke
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 44th Battalion, Canadian Infantry
Date of Loss: June 02, 1916 / Age: 30
Killed in action at Sanctuary Wood, Ypres salient, on June 2, 1916.
Buried at Sanctuary Wood.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Peter J. Bjerklie
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.
1918
Pvt.1st Class Magnus H. Bjornson
Mountain, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 78th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 05, 1918 / Age: 24
Died of pneumonia, at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 5, 1918.
Buried at Mountain, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt. Andrew James Black
Berthold, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company I, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: November 05, 1918 / Age: 23
Killed in action on Nov. 5, 1918.
Buried in France. Reburied at Berthold, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.