State Heroes
World War I (WWI)
1918
Fireman Third Class Earl Dorencourt Young
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Navy
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: USS Comfort
Date of Loss: October 05, 1918 / Age: 23
Died on USS Comfort, at New York, N. Y., on Oct. 5, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Louis Charles Knuth
Balfour, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company No. 33, 161st Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: November 06, 1918 / Age: 30
Died of pneumonia, at Balfour, N. Dak., on Nov. 6, 1918.
Buried at Balfour, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Edward Nicholas Weber
St. Martin, MN
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 58th Infantry
Date of Loss: May 23, 1918 / Age: 22
Killed in action on May 23, 1918, in sinking of Moldavia.
Buried in the British Channel.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Stanley Ostrowski
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 7th Machine Gun Battalion
Date of Loss: October 20, 1918 / Age: 22
Killed in action on Oct. 20, 1918.
Buried in Grave 31, Row 16, Block C, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Gilford Oliver Olson
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 22nd Company, 6th Battalion, 160th Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 18, 1918 / Age: 21
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 18, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 3, page 2415 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Richard Francis Anderson
Ecklund, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery D, 339th Field Artillery
Date of Loss: April 09, 1918 / Age: 26
Died of pneumonia, on April 9, 1918.
Buried in Congregational Cemetery, Ecklund township, Burleigh county, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Willard Edwin Vestre
Drayton, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Marines
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 49th Company, 5th Regiment
Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 21
Killed in action on Oct. 4, 1918.
Burial, Grave 164, Section 86, Plot 4, Argonne American Cemetery No. 1232. Reinterred, Drayton Cemetery, Drayton, N. Dak.
1918
Cpl. Earl Gash
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 04, 1918 / Age: 23
Killed in action on Oct. 4, 1918.
Remains returned to U. S. on Aug. 5, 1921. Buried, Grave 2043, European Section, National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Henry Peterson
Walcott, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 161st Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 09, 1918 / Age: 27
Died of pneumonia at Camp Hancock, Ga., on Oct. 9, 1918.
Buried at Walcott, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt. Ludwig Coy
Wild Rose, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 38th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Division
Date of Loss: July 16, 1918 / Age: 23
Killed in action on July 16, 1918.
Buried, Grave 22, Row 20, Block A, Oise-Aisne American Cemetery, Seringes-et-Nesles, Aisne, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Andrew Clauson
Harlow, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, Development Battalion No. 1, 163rd Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 28
Died of pneumonia at Camp Dodge, Iowa, on Oct. 11, 1918.
Buried at Harlow, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Name included in the "WWI Centenial" book. Benson County.
1918
Private Claude W. Keller
Glenburn, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company I
Date of Loss: March 01, 1918 / Age: 28
Killed in action on March 1, 1918.
Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on June 21, 1921, and consigned to George Keller, Goble, Mich. (place of burial unknown).
1918
Oluf Knutson
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 58th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 28, 1918 / Age: 30
Killed in action on Sept. 28, 1918.
Buried in Grave 12, Row 39, Block G, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
1918
Hjalmar Algot Lindberg
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 161st Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 07, 1918 / Age: 28
Died of pnuemonia on Oct. 7, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 3, page 1903 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Harold Maloy Parker
Cando, ND
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company G, 140th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 26, 1918 / Age: 22
Killed in action on Sept. 26, 1918.
Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on Oct. 10, 1921, and buried at Cando, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Private Floyd Austin Fuller
World War I (WWI)
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Student Army Training Corps UND Grand Forks ND
Date of Loss: October 24, 1918 / Age: 21
Died while serving as a member of the Student Army Training Corps on the UND campus in Grand Forks during the 1918 flu pandemic. Name included on the UND S.A.T.C. website