State Heroes
World War I (WWI)
1918
S2c Emil M. Dvorak
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Navy
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa
Date of Loss: September 28, 1918 / Age: 24
Died in Naval Hospital, Philadelphia, Pa., on Sept. 28, 1918, as a Seaman 2nd Class.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Private Albert Grass
Cannon Ball, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A
Date of Loss: July 18, 1918 / Age: 22
Killed in action at Soissons-Paris Road, July 18, 1918. His company was entrenched along the Paris, Soissons Road south of the Chemin de Dames and he volunteered to get some water for his buddies.
1918
John N. Tweten
Brocket, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters Company, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: April 20, 1918 / Age: 43
Died of septicaemia, on April 20, 1918.
Remains returned to U. S. on May 31, 1921, and consigned to Otto Tweten, Brocket, N. Dak. (place of burial not given).
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Samuel Skoien
World War I (WWI)
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.
1918
Joseph Sherman, Jr.
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B
Battalion / Task Group / Squadron or equivalent:8th Brigade
Division / Fleet / Air Force or Equivalent:4th Division (Regular)
Date of Loss: May 23, 1918 / Age: 23
Drowned on May 23, 1918, in the sinking of the Moldavia.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Horace Mann Jones Jr.
Fargo, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Medical Department
Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 18
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 12, 1918.
Buried at Fargo, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Cpl. Virgil Raymond Erickson
Devils Lake, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 02, 1918 / Age: 25
Killed in action on Oct. 2, 1918.
Buried in France. Reburied in Kato township, Ramsey county, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Barney Kartenson
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Aviation Section, Signal Corps
Date of Loss: February 17, 1918 / Age: 21
Died of pneumonia, on Feb. 17, 1918.
Name NOT included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 2, page 1630 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Norvald Larson
Grafton, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Machine Gun Company, 158th Infantry
Date of Loss: December 01, 1918 / Age: 21
Died of broncho pneumonia, at US Camp Hospital No. 4, Army Postoffice No. 702, France, on Dec. 1, 1918.
Buried, Grave 14, Row 17, Block B, Suresnes, Seine, France.
1918
Albert Vaughn
Vestaburg, MI
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company I (Wahpeton), 1st North Dakota Infantry Regt
Date of Loss: November 03, 1918 / Age: 30
Died on November 3, 1918 of wounds received in action. Remains returned to US on January 3, 1921 and buried at Vestaburg Michigan.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt. Edgar Roy Chandler
Gardner, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: May 09, 1918 / Age: 23
Killed in action on May 9, 1918.
Buried in Grave No. 6, Row 7, Block D, Somme American Cemetery, Bony, Aisne, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt.1st Class Ambrose Soren Knudson
Sturgeon Bay, WI
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company F, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 31, 1918 / Age: 22
Killed in action, Oct. 31, 1918.
Buried, Gave 32, Row 6, 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
Joseph G. Kachel
Fried, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 22nd Company, 6th Battalion, 160th Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 28
Died of pneumonia, at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 11, 1918.
Buried at Fried, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt. Oscar Hilden
Ellendale, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company M, 137th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 29, 1918 / Age: 23
Killed in action, on Sept. 29, 1918.
Buried in Grave 11, Row 21, Block D, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Martin A. Tofte
Springbrook, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 53rd Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 03, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 3, 1918, at Camp Hancock, Ga.
Buried, Springbrook, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Howard E. Clark
Date of Loss: November 08, 1918 / Age:
Killed in Action.
Memorial at Pleasant Hill Cemetery-Eden Prairie MN
Not listed on ND All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol -Bismarck