State Heroes
World War I (WWI)
1918
CQM Pomeroy Smith
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Navy
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Receiving Ship, Pensacola, Fla.
Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 27
Died on Receiving Ship, Pensacola, Fla., on Oct. 11, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt. Fred Gard
Crosby, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: March 01, 1918 / Age: 21
Killed in action on March 1, 1918.
Buried, Grave 6, Row 4, Block B, St. Mihiel American Cemetery, Thiaucourt, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Svend Risdahl
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery B, 338th Field Artillery
Date of Loss: March 18, 1918 / Age: 25
Died on March 18, 1918, at Camp Dodge, Iowa.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 4, page 2708 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Pvt.1st Class Joseph Ira Francis Weller
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 1st Field Signal Battalion
Date of Loss: November 06, 1918 / Age: 25
Died on Nov. 6, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Buried in Grave 24, Row 38, Block G, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
1918
Edward Clarence Nordin
Atwater, MN
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 137th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 28, 1918 / Age: 24
Killed in action in Argonne Forest, on Sept. 28, 1918.
Buried in France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Edwin T Aas
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company G, 14th Ammunition Train
Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 25
Died of bronchial pneumonia, on Oct. 12, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 1, page 9 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Pvt. Boyd Eagleson
Milton, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Division
Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 23
Died on Oct. 10, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Buried in Grave 19, Row 19, Block E, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
1918
Pvt. Henry Frank Koch
Deering, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 137th Infantry Regiment, 35th Division
Date of Loss: September 28, 1918 / Age: 24
Killed in action on Sept. 28, 1918.
Buried in Grave 30, Row 33, Block B, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Arthur W. Phin
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Detachment C, Medical Corps
Date of Loss: December 21, 1918 / Age: 37
Died on Dec. 21, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 3, page 2569 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Cpl. Roy Matthews
Mattoon, IL
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company L, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: February 14, 1918 / Age: 28
Died of pneumonia, on Feb. 14, 1918.
Remains returned to U. S. on June 14, 1921, and buried in Camp Ground Cemetery, Coles county, Mattoon, Ill.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Tracy Logan
Lisbon, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 139th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 26, 1918 / Age: 22
Killed in action on Sept. 26, 1918.
Buried, Grave 37, Row 46, Block B, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt. Emil J. Bosh
Pisek, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 58th Infantry Regiment, 4th Division
Date of Loss: May 23, 1918 / Age: 25
Drowned in the sinking of the Moldavia, on May 23, 1918. Missing in Action or Buried at Sea.
Tablets of the Missing at Suresnes American Cemetery, Suresnes, France.
1918
Pvt.1st Class Herman Edwin Johnson
Landa, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 110th Infantry Regiment, 28th Division
Date of Loss: October 06, 1918 / Age: 24
Killed in action on Oct. 6, 1918.
Buried, Grave 40, Row 1, Block E, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Louis John Volesky
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 19th Company, 2nd Group, Motor Truck Detachment, Camp Hancock, Ga.
Date of Loss: October 28, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of influenza on Oct. 28, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 4, page 3351 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Pvt. Paul Pecher
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Machine Gun Company, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: July 18, 1918 / Age: 19
Killed in action on July 18, 1918.
Buried, Tournan Cemetery, Tournan, Seine-et-Marne, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt.1st Class Maynard Leroy Rundell
Lakota, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company K, 359th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 12, 1918 / Age: 22
Killed in action at St. Mihiel on Sept. 12, 1918.
Remains returned to U. S. on April 17, 1922, and buried at Lakota, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.