State Heroes Total:
3942
Service Branch

World War I (WWI)

William F. Leisner photo 1918

PFC William F. Leisner

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 339th Machine Gun Battalion

Date of Loss: October 09, 1918 / Age: 24

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 9, 1918.

Buried, Grave 28, Row 24, Block E, Meuse-Argonne American Cemeter, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Henry Hafener photo 1918

Corporal Henry Hafener

Mooreton, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Machine Gun Company, 77th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 13, 1918 / Age: 23

Died of broncho pneumonia at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 13, 1918.

Buried at Mooreton, N. Dak.

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

Sophus Goodman Arman photo 1918

Private Sophus Goodman Arman

World War I (WWI)

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. website

Buried at Grafton City Cemetery.

Sevrin Bourk photo 1918

Pvt. Sevrin Bourk

Sykeston, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 1st Army Headquarters Regiment

Date of Loss: November 18, 1918 / Age: 22

Killed by prisoner when making an arrest as a Military Police, on Nov. 18, 1918, at La Harve, France.

Buried, Grave 10, Row 19, Block B, Somme American Cemetery, Bony, Aisne, France.

John R. Holdaas photo 1918

Pvt. John R. Holdaas

Bottineau, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: September 26, 1918 / Age: 29

Killed in action on Sept. 26, 1918.

Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on Aug. 8, 1921, and buried at Bottineau, N. Dak.

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

Frank Leslie Townsend photo 1918

Frank Leslie Townsend

LaMoure, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: September 27, 1918 / Age: 24

Killed in action on Sept. 27, 1918.

Buried, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France. Remains returned to U. S. on Sept. 19, 1921, and buried at LaMoure, N. Dak.

Olaf Dybdal photo 1918

Olaf Dybdal

McLeod, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 07, 1918 / Age: 28

Died, Oct. 7, 1918, of wounds received in action.

Buried, Grave 157, Row 12, Block 4, Argonne-American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France. Reburied, McLeod, N. Dak.

George W. Zengel photo 1918

George W. Zengel

World War I (WWI)

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.

John Anderson photo 1918

Yeoman Second Class John Anderson

Hoople, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Navy

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: USS Von Steuben

Date of Loss: April 01, 1918 / Age: 19

Died at Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa., on April 1, 1918.

Buried at Hoople, N. Dak.

Name NOT included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

Charles Otto Morgenstern photo 1918

Coxswain Charles Otto Morgenstern

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Navy

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: USS New York

Date of Loss: February 16, 1918 / Age: 21

Died on USS New York, on Feb. 16, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 3, page 2220 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Elmer Peterson photo 1918

Elmer Peterson

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters Company, 339th Field Artillery

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

Died of pneumonia, at Clermont-Ferrand, France, on Oct. 28, 1918.

Buried, Grave 4, Row 9, Block B, Aisne-Marne American Cemetery, Belleau, Aisne, France.

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

Sebastian Mischel photo 1918

Sebastian Mischel

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company F, 111th Infantry

Date of Loss: September 28, 1918 / Age: 22

Killed in action on Sept. 28, 1918.

Buried in Grave 31, Row 17, Block H, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

James A. Palmer photo 1918

James A. Palmer

Newlon, MT

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Fort Caswell September Automatic Replacement Draft, Company No. 2

Date of Loss: October 02, 1918 / Age: 37

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 2, 1918, at Camp Merritt, N. J.

Buried, Newlon, Mont.

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

Clyde Earl Wortman photo 1918

Clyde Earl Wortman

Hixton, WI

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 313th Military Police

Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 24

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 11, 1918.

Buried, Grave 10, Row 22, Block H, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

C. E. Clark photo 1918

Pvt. C. E. Clark

Branch of Service: Army

Date of Loss: July 18, 1918 / Age: