State Heroes
World War I (WWI)
1918
George G. Cook
Cando, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 77th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 11, 1918.
Buried at Cando, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND as George C Cook.
1918
Walter Gustav Daschner
Hunter, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery D, 40th Field Artillery
Date of Loss: October 17, 1918 / Age: 22
Died of pneumonia, at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 17, 1918.
Buried at Hunter, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt.1st Class Oscar Ekstrom
Valley Springs, SD
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 7th Machine Gun Battalion, 3rd Division
Date of Loss: July 30, 1918 / Age: 21
Died on July 30, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Buried in Grave 10, Row 10, Block A, Aisne-Marne American Cemetery, Belleau, Aisne, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt. Henry Krohn
Omemee, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 140th Infantry Regiment, 35th Division
Date of Loss: September 30, 1918 / Age: 24
Killed in action on Sept. 30, 1918, at Meuse-Argonne.
Buried in Grave 19, Row 35, Block A, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
1918
James Meheles
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 05, 1918 / Age: 25
Killed in action on Oct. 5, 1918.
Buried in Grave 23, Row 5, Block C, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Martin Peterson
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.
1918
Henry James Colgrove
Dickinson, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 33rd Company, 161st Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 06, 1918 / Age: 24
Died of pneumonia at Camp Grant, Ill., on Oct. 6, 1918.
Buried at Dickinson, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt. William Johnson
Glover, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: January 09, 1918 / Age: 20
Died of pneumonia, at Winchester, England, on Jan. 9, 1918.
Remains returned to U. S. June 14, 1920, and buried in Grave 36, National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
1918
George Leslie Rourke
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Machine Gun Company, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: July 24, 1918 / Age: 24
Died, July 24, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Buried, Grave 3, Row 6, Block B, Suresnes American Cemetery, Suresnes, Seine, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Michael Sperle
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 128th Infantry
Date of Loss: November 10, 1918 / Age: 22
Killed in action on Nov. 10, 1918.
Buried, Grave 11, Row 21, Block H, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Paul Nehls
Wittenburg, WI
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Field Hospital Company No. 245, 12th Sanitary Train
Date of Loss: September 24, 1918 / Age: 27
Died of pneumonia on Sept. 24, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 3, page 2277 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Magnus Eugene Alen
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company M, 77th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 28
Died on Oct. 10, 1918, of bronchial pneumonia.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Sgt. Clyde Arthur Neer
Alexander, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: School for Bakers and Cooks
Date of Loss: August 09, 1918 / Age: 29
Accidentally killed at Camp Pike, Ark., on Aug. 9, 1918.
Buried at Alexander, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt. Harold William Beltman
Tower City, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Marines
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 79th Company, 6th Regiment
Date of Loss: June 14, 1918 / Age: 20
Killed in action on June 14, 1918.
Burial, Section C, Plot 3, Cemetery 1764; reinterred at Tower City, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt. Herman G. Helgeson
Walcott, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company L, 137th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 28, 1918 / Age: 24
Killed in action Sept. 28, 1918.
Buried, American Cemetery, Chatel Chehery, Argennes, France. Remains returned to U. S. on Oct. 10, 1921, and buried at Walcott, N. Dak.
1918
Albert A. Bodeen
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 424th Telegraph Railway Battalion, Signal Corps
Date of Loss: October 25, 1918 / Age: 21
Died at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., of broncho pneumonia, on Oct. 25, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.