State Heroes Total:
3940
Service Branch

World War I (WWI)

Sigval Opdahl photo 1918

Sigval Opdahl

Sheldon, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: January 09, 1918 / Age: 23

Died of broncho pneumonia, at Camp Pike, Ark., on Jan. 9, 1918.

Buried at Sheldon, N. Dak.

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

Joseph Sherman photo 1918

Joseph Sherman, Jr.

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B

Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent:8th Brigade

Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent:4th Division (Regular)

Date of Loss: May 23, 1918 / Age: 23

Drowned on May 23, 1918, in the sinking of the Moldavia.

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

Phillip John Mayer, Jr. photo 1918

Phillip John Mayer, Jr.

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Air Service

Date of Loss: May 02, 1918 / Age: 25

Died on May 2, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 3, page 2120 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Albert Grass photo 1918

Pvt. Albert Grass

Cannon Ball, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 164th Infantry

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

Killed in action at Soissons-Paris Road, July 18, 1918. His company was entrenched along the Paris, Soissons Road south of the Chemin de Dames and he volunteered to get some water for his buddies.

Walter M. Fry photo 1918

Walter M. Fry

Columbus, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: August 09, 1918 / Age: 17

Died, Aug. 9, 1918, Base Hospital No. 8, Savegnay, France, of wounds received in action.

Buried, Columbus, N. Dak.

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

Harry H. Swontkaski photo 1918

Harry H. Swontkaski

Ashton, NE

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 37th Company, 10th Battalion, 160th Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 22

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 11, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 4, page 3178 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Oscar D. Keene photo 1918

Cpl. Oscar D. Keene

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company I, 47th Infantry

Date of Loss: August 04, 1918 / Age: 23

Killed in action on Aug. 4, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 2, page 1638 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Virgil Raymond Erickson photo 1918

Cpl. Virgil Raymond Erickson

Devils Lake, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 02, 1918 / Age: 25

Killed in action on Oct. 2, 1918.

Buried in France. Reburied in Kato township, Ramsey county, N. Dak.

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

Kenneth Mark Sollin photo 1918

Kenneth Mark Sollin

Valley City, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 166th Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: November 13, 1918 / Age: 21

Died of pneumonia at Camp Lewis, Wash., on Nov. 13, 1918.

Buried, Woodbine Cemetery, Valley City, N. Dak.

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

Loraine York photo 1918

Loraine York

World War I (WWI)

Date of Loss: November 11, 1918 / Age:

Name NOT 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.

Cecil Henry Tracy photo 1918

2nd Lt. Cecil Henry Tracy

Jamestown, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 21, 1918 / Age: 21

Killed in action on Oct. 21, 1918.

Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on Oct. 10, 1921, and buried in Calvary Cemetery, Jamestown, N. Dak.

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

Adolph R. Pechlat photo 1918

Adolph R. Pechlat

Wahpeton, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery B 41st Field Artillery

Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 25

Died of Broncho pneumonia at Camp Custer Michigan on October 11, 1918. Buried at St. Joseph's Cemetery, Brushvale, Minnesota.

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

Edgar Roy Chandler photo 1918

Pvt. Edgar Roy Chandler

Gardner, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: May 09, 1918 / Age: 23

Killed in action on May 9, 1918.

Buried in Grave No. 6, Row 7, Block D, Somme American Cemetery, Bony, Aisne, France.

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

Walt F. Benson photo 1918

Walt F. Benson

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.

Carl Solvsberg photo 1918

Carl Solvsberg

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company L, 360th Infantry

Date of Loss: November 02, 1918 / Age: 24

Killed in action on Nov. 2, 1918.

Buried, Grave 6, Row 43, Block A, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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