State Heroes Total:
3436
Service Branch

World War I

Simeon Hiram Blanchard photo 1918

Simeon Hiram Blanchard

McClusky, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 10th Company, 3rd Battalion, 151st Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: September 24, 1918 / Age: 23

Died of pneumonia at Camp Devens, Mass., on Sept. 24, 1918.

Buried at McClusky, N. Dak.

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

Edgar Markell Boyd photo 1918

Pvt.1st Class Edgar Markell Boyd

Rolla, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: July 19, 1918 / Age: 20

Killed in action on July 19, 1918.

Buried in Grave 37, Row 32, Block D, Oise-Aisne American Cemetery, Seringes-et-Nesles, Aisne, France.

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

Frank Benedict Holicky photo 1918

Pvt. Frank Benedict Holicky

Lakota, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 9th Marchine Gun Battalion

Date of Loss: July 15, 1918 / Age: 21

Killed in action at Chateau-Thierry on July 15, 1918.

Buried, Grave No. 24, Section R, Plot No. 1, Oise-Aisne American Cemetery, Seringes-et-Nesles, Aisne, France. Remains returned to U. S. on Jan. 10, 1922, and buried at Lakota, N. Dak.

Willis O. Gish photo 1918

Willis O. Gish

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 8th Ammunition Train

Date of Loss: July 14, 1918 / Age: 28

Murdered - strangulation - on July 14, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 2, page 1060 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Osmer James Leigh photo 1918

Pvt. Osmer James Leigh

Royalton, MN

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 58th Infantry

Date of Loss: September 22, 1918 / Age: 24

Died of pneumonia on Sept. 22, 1918.

Remains returned to U. S. on Nov. 10, 1920, and consigned to J. E. Leigh, Royalton, Minn. (place of burial not given).

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

Frederick E. Smith photo 1918

Lieutenant Colonel Frederick E. Smith

Rockford, IL

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 308th Infantry

Date of Loss: September 29, 1918 / Age: 45

When communication from the forward regimental post of command to the battalion leading the advance had been interrupted temporarily, by the infiltration of small parties of the enemy armed with machine guns, Lieutenant-Colonel Smith personally led a p

Carl J. Roardson photo 1918

Carl J. Roardson

World War I

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.

William Everett Boss photo 1918

William Everett Boss

Hale, MO

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Signal Corps, Fort Leavenworth, Kans.

Date of Loss: October 03, 1918 / Age: 32

Died of pneumonia, at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., on Oct. 3, 1918.

Buried at Hale, Mo.

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

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.

Royal Osmer Gray photo 1918

Cpl. Royal Osmer Gray

Lakota, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: September 30, 1918 / Age: 22

Killed in action on Sept. 30, 1918.

Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on Sept. 19, 1921, and buried at Lakota, N. Dak.

Preston George McGarry photo 1918

Preston George McGarry

Willow City, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: School for Bakers and Cooks, Camp Custer, Mich.

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

Died of pneumonia at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 9, 1918.

Buried at Willow City, N. Dak.

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

Leete Gladstone Van Syckle photo 1918

Leete Gladstone Van Syckle

Grand Forks, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 53rd Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: October 05, 1918 / Age: 26

Died of influenza pneumonia at Camp Hancock, Ga., on Oct. 5, 1918.

Buried at Grand Forks, N. Dak.

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

Raymond Alexander Hanson photo 1918

Mechanic Raymond Alexander Hanson

Shell Lake, WI

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: June 11, 1918 / Age: 27

Killed in action on June 11, 1918, at Cantigny, France.

Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on March 28, 1921, and buried at Shell Lake, Wis., on April 2, 1921.

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.

Eugene Victor Evans photo 1918

Pvt. Eugene Victor Evans

Mott, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 313th Ammunition Trains, 88th Division

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

Died of pneumonia, at Herricourt, France, on Oct. 17, 1918.

Buried, Grave 6, Row 5, Block F, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.