State Heroes Total:
3939
Service Branch

World War I

John A. Smestad photo 1918

John A. Smestad

Hatton, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery D, 40th Field Artillery

Date of Loss: October 17, 1918 / Age: 30

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 17, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 4, page 2996 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Frank Jabez Piper photo 1918

PFC Frank Jabez Piper

Ashley, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Evacuation Hospital No. 10

Date of Loss: October 09, 1918 / Age: 31

Died of pneumonia, on Oct. 9, 1918.

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

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

Archie Swann photo 1918

Archie Swann

Brooklyn, WI

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: May 23, 1918 / Age: 22

Died, May 23, 1918, of wounds received in action.

Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on April 23, 1921, and buried in Long Prairie township, Brooklyn, Wis.

John Fred Thielmann photo 1918

John Fred Thielmann

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company G, 5th Limited Service Regiment

Date of Loss: October 17, 1918 / Age: 23

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 17, 1918.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND as John F Thieland.

William John Gravell photo 1918

Pvt.1st Class William John Gravell

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 47th Infantry Regiment, 4th Division

Date of Loss: August 08, 1918 / Age: 28

Died on Aug. 8, 1918, of wounds received in action.

Buried, Grave 13, Row 16, Block A, Oise-Aisne American Cemetery, Seringes-et-Nesles, Aisne, France.

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

Rasmus Rasmussen Skriver photo 1918

Rasmus Rasmussen Skriver

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 23rd Infantry

Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 26

Died, Oct. 12, 1918, of wounds received in action.

Buried, Grave 25, Row 10, Block A, St. Mihiel American Cemetery, Thiaucourt, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France.

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

Tillman Arty Kjos photo 1918

Cpl. Tillman Arty Kjos

Kindred, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Marines

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 80th Company, 6th Regiment

Date of Loss: November 02, 1918 / Age: 28

Died on Nov. 2, 1918, of wounds received in action.

Burial, Kindred, N. Dak.

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

James Lunsden photo 1918

James Lunsden

Pete, WI

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: January 07, 1918 / Age: 17

Died at Winchester, England, of pneumonia, on Jan. 7, 1918.

Buried, Pete, Wis.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND as James T Lundsen.

Elgin Evens photo 1918

Pvt. Elgin Evens

Voss, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 128th Infantry

Date of Loss: November 10, 1918 / Age: 30

Killed in action on Nov. 10, 1918.

Buried in Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France. Remains returned to U. S. on Sept. 12, 1921, and buried in Lutheran Cemetery, Grafton, N. Dak.

Theodore Arved Anderson photo 1918

Theodore Arved Anderson

Gwinner, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 78th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 29

Died of pneumonia, at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 14, 1918.

Buried at Gwinner, N. Dak.

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

Edwin Erickson photo 1918

Edwin Erickson

Walcott, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 27th Company Casual Detachment, Spruce Production Division

Date of Loss: October 27, 1918 / Age: 23

Died of pneumonia at Camp Lewis Washington on October 27-1918. Buried at Walcott, Richland County, North Dakota.

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

Levi Bartley Owen photo 1918

Pvt.1st Class Levi Bartley Owen

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 358th Infantry

Date of Loss: September 14, 1918 / Age: 25

Died of wounds received in action, on Sept. 14, 1918, at Tuhl, near St. Mihiel.

Buried, St. Mihiel.

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

John Van Lishout photo 1918

Pvt. John Van Lishout

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company No. 33, 9th Battalion, 153rd Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: October 02, 1918 / Age: 29

Died on Oct. 2, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 4, page 3327 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Joseph Charwatt photo 1918

Pvt.1st Class Joseph Charwatt

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 325th Infantry Regiment, 82nd Division

Date of Loss: October 15, 1918 / Age: 28

Died on Oct. 15, 1918, of wounds received in action.

Buried, Grave- 4, Row 24, Block B, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

Orrin Ezra Lee photo 1918

Orrin Ezra Lee

Oldham, SD

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: September 27, 1918 / Age: 22

Died of pneumonia at Clermont, Farrand, France, on Sept. 27, 1918.

Remains returned to U. S. and buried in Grave 1619, European Section, National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.