State Heroes
World War I (WWI)
1917
Herman Thoen
Cooperstown
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company L, 352nd Infantry
Date of Loss: October 22, 1917 / Age: 23
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 22, 1917.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 4, page 3208 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1917
Charles Anderson
Sanger, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery E, 338th Field Artillery
Date of Loss: December 19, 1917 / Age: 25
Died at Camp Dodge, Iowa, on Dec. 19, 1917.
Buried at Sanger, N. Dak.
Name NOT included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1917
Pvt.1st Class Lyle Barnes Rich
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Medical Department, Base Hospital No. 18
Date of Loss: December 08, 1917 / Age: 26
Died of typhoid fever, on Dec. 8, 1917.
Buried, Grave 34, Row 39, Block C, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1917
Jesse J. Phipps
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: December 09, 1917 / Age: 25
Died of pneumonia on Dec. 9, 1917.
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.
1917
William Alberg
Henning, MN
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 46th Battalion, Canadian Infantry
Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent:46th Battalion
Date of Loss: April 13, 1917 / Age: 32
Killed in action on April 13, 1917.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 1, page 26 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1916
Karl Oscar Bjerke
World War I (WWI)
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.
1916
Carl Melvin Peterson
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 17th Canadian Reserve Battalion
Date of Loss: October 01, 1916 / Age: 21
Died, Oct., 1916, at Shornecliffe Barracks, near Folkestone, England.
Name NOT included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1915
Lloyd Sinclair
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 5th Battalion, Queen's Own Cameron Highlanders, British Army
Date of Loss: September 25, 1915 / Age:
Died of wounds, Sept. 25, 1915.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 4, page 2968 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1915
Robert McMullin
Crystal, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 11th Battalion, Winnipeg Grenadiers
Date of Loss: October 25, 1915 / Age: 19
Died at Winnipeg, Man., on Oct. 25, 1915.
Buried in Brookside Cemetery, Winnipeg, Man.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Nurse Sophia Ellen Morrison
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Base Hospital, Camp Devens, Mass.
Relieved from active duty on Jan. 31, 1919, as an Army Nurse.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
