State Heroes
World War I (WWI)
1918
Pvt. John Paul Bauer
Hankinson, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company I, 138th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 28, 1918 / Age: 23
Killed in action, on Sept. 28, 1918.
Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on July 25, 1921, and buried at Hankinson, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Elmer Joseph Lorenz
Langdon, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company T, 5th Battalion, 163rd Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: April 17, 1918 / Age: 30
Died of pneumonia, at Camp Dodge, Iowa, on April 17, 1918.
Buried at Langdon, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND under Cavalier county.
1918
Martin Olof Ruud
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 343rd Machine Gun Battalion
Date of Loss: November 01, 1918 / Age: 31
Killed in action on Nov. 1, 1918.
Buried, Grave 18, Row 41, Block D, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Roy Alfred Dingman
Oelwein, IA
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Troop E, 7th Cavalry, Fort Bliss, Texas
Date of Loss: October 18, 1918 / Age: 21
Died of pneumonia at Fort Bliss, Texas, on Oct. 18, 1918.
Buried at Oelwein, Iowa.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Corporal Cecil Claude Smith
Tunnel City, WI
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D,
Date of Loss: January 04, 1918 / Age: 25
Died of pneumonia, at Noyers, France, on Jan. 4, 1918.
Buried, Grave 27, Row 18, Block C, Oise-Aisne American Cemetery, Seringes-et-Nesles, Aisne, France.
Name included on the All-Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt.1st Class William A. Fry
Stampede, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: July 19, 1918 / Age: 50
Killed in action at Chateau-Thierry, France, on July 19, 1918.
Buried, Grave 11, Row 13, Block D, Oise-Aisne American Cemetery, Seringes-et-Nesles, Aisne, France.
1918
John Raaen
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
Pvt.1st Class Melvin Wisness
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 2nd Field Battalion, Signal Corps
Date of Loss: December 07, 1918 / Age: 31
Died on Dec. 7, 1918, of pneumonia.
Buried, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Vernon Howard Terrill
Fairmount, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company M, 26th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 09, 1918 / Age: 20
Killed in action on Oct. 9, 1918.
Buried in France. Reburied at Fairmount, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
John William Kendrew
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters Company, 42nd Field Artillery
Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 26
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 10, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 2, page 1655 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Pvt. Jesse Wilson Dillon
Freeman, MO
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 164th Field Hospital, 116th Sanitary Train
Date of Loss: September 26, 1918 / Age: 28
Died on Sept. 26, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Buried in France. Reburied in Grave 2251, National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt.1st Class Bernt Randolph Kleveland
Mayville, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 39th Infantry Regiment, 4th Division
Date of Loss: September 07, 1918 / Age: 27
Died of wounds, about Sept. 7, 1918.
Buried, Grave 9, Row 6, Block C, Oise-Aisne American Cemetery, Seringes-et-Nesles, Aisne, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
HA1/c Ernest Oliver Myhre
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Navy
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Naval Training Station, San Francisco, Calif.
Date of Loss: July 27, 1918 / Age: 26
Died at Naval Training Station, San Francisco, Calif., on July 27, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Private First Class Frank James Ziegeweid
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: July 18, 1918 / Age: 20
Killed in action, near Soissons, on July 18, 1918.
Remains returned to U. S. on Jan. 15, 1921, and buried in Grave 1162, National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
1918
Henry H. Kraemer
West Union, MN
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 131st Infantry
Date of Loss: August 11, 1918 / Age: 25
Killed in action, on Aug. 11, 1918.
Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on Dec. 28, 1920, and buried at West Union, Minn.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Benjamin Emanuel Lawrence
Courtenay, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 306th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 26, 1918 / Age: 26
Killed in action on Sept. 26, 1918.
Grave unlocated.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.