State Heroes
World War I (WWI)
1918
Oscar A. Bast
Streeter, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company L, 10th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 08, 1918 / Age: 24
Died of pneumonia at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 8, 1918.
Buried, Streeter, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Svend Risdahl
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery B, 338th Field Artillery
Date of Loss: March 18, 1918 / Age: 25
Died on March 18, 1918, at Camp Dodge, Iowa.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 4, page 2708 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Pvt.1st Class Joseph Ira Francis Weller
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 1st Field Signal Battalion
Date of Loss: November 06, 1918 / Age: 25
Died on Nov. 6, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Buried in Grave 24, Row 38, Block G, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
1918
Edward Clarence Nordin
Atwater, MN
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 137th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 28, 1918 / Age: 24
Killed in action in Argonne Forest, on Sept. 28, 1918.
Buried in France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Arthur W. Phin
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Detachment C, Medical Corps
Date of Loss: December 21, 1918 / Age: 37
Died on Dec. 21, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 3, page 2569 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Cpl. Roy Matthews
Mattoon, IL
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company L, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: February 14, 1918 / Age: 28
Died of pneumonia, on Feb. 14, 1918.
Remains returned to U. S. on June 14, 1921, and buried in Camp Ground Cemetery, Coles county, Mattoon, Ill.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Tracy Logan
Lisbon, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 139th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 26, 1918 / Age: 22
Killed in action on Sept. 26, 1918.
Buried, Grave 37, Row 46, Block B, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Louis John Volesky
World War I (WWI)
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.
1918
Pvt. Paul Pecher
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Machine Gun Company, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: July 18, 1918 / Age: 19
Killed in action on July 18, 1918.
Buried, Tournan Cemetery, Tournan, Seine-et-Marne, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt.1st Class Maynard Leroy Rundell
Lakota, ND
World War I (WWI)
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.
1918
Louis John Otto
Hillsboro, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 137th Infantry
Date of Loss: November 03, 1918 / Age: 28
Died on Nov. 3, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Buried in Grave 413, Plot L, Cemetery 10, Chaumont, France. Remains returned to U. S. on June 6, 1921, and buried in Imanuel Lutheran Cemetery, Hillsboro, N. Dak.
1918
Pvt. Eugene Farnam
Inkster, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 313th Sanitary Train
Date of Loss: October 07, 1918 / Age: 26
Died of influenza on Oct. 7, 1918.
Buried, Harricourt, France, Grave 50. Remains returned to U. S. Oct. 31, 1921, and buried at Inkster, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
William E Brown
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 3rd Company, Veterinary Training School
Date of Loss: October 24, 1918 / Age: 25
Died of pneumonia, at Lodi, Wis., on Oct. 24, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Cpl. George Thomas Christensen
Flaxton, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Motor Truck Company No. 471, 418th Motor Supply Train
Date of Loss: October 09, 1918 / Age: 21
Died of pneumonia, on Oct. 9, 1918.
Remains returned to U. S. May 31, 1921, and buried at Flaxton, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt. William Borgen
Hannah, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters Company, 23rd Infantry
Date of Loss: October 06, 1918 / Age: 22
Killed in action on Oct. 6, 1918.
Buried in Grave 24, Section 97, Plot 1, Argonne-American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France. Remains returned to U. S. Sept. 12, 1921, and buried in Hannah Cemetery, Hannah, N. Dak.
1918
Albert W. Wallner
New Ulm, MN
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 19
Killed in action on Oct. 10, 1918.
Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on Aug. 1, 1921, and buried in Catholic Cemetery, New Ulm, Minn.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.