State Heroes Total:
3939
Service Branch

World War I

Thor Elias Vatsvik photo 1918

Thor Elias Vatsvik

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 140th Infantry

Date of Loss: September 26, 1918 / Age: 28

Killed in action on Sept. 26, 1918. 

Remains returned to Norway and consigned to Alaphias Vatsvik, Skjareham, Norway. (place of burial not given).

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

Harold C. Greer photo 1918

Harold C. Greer

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.

George Swiggum photo 1918

George Swiggum

Hilendal, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company L, 77th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 09, 1918 / Age: 27

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

Buried in Hilendal Cemetery, Hilendal township, Richland county, North Dakota.

Frank C. Day photo 1918

Pvt. Frank C. Day

Price, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company F, 137th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 05, 1918 / Age: 22

Died on Oct. 5, 1918, of wounds received in action.

Buried, French Military Cemetery, Deauxnouds, Meuse. Remains returned to U. S. on July 25, 1921, and buried at Sanger, N. Dak.

Frank Erwin Curry photo 1918

2nd Lt. Frank Erwin Curry

Harey [sic] (possibly Harvey), ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 7th Machine Gun Battalion, 3rd Division

Date of Loss: October 21, 1918 / Age: 32

Killed in action on Oct. 21, 1918.

Buried at Farme-de-la-Madelaine, France.

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

Thorwald Kilen photo 1918

Pvt. Thorwald Kilen

Sharon, ND

World War I

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.

Byron H. West photo 1918

Byron H. West

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 15th Service Company, Signal Corps, Casual Detachment

Date of Loss: October 17, 1918 / Age: 20

Died of pneumonia, on Oct. 17, 1918.

Remains returned to U. S. Sept. 3, 1920, and buried in Grave 432, National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.

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

Leo E. Stovern photo 1918

Leo E. Stovern

Rosholt, SD

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 362nd Infantry

Date of Loss: September 30, 1918 / Age: 27

Killed in action on Sept. 30, 1918.

Remains returned to U. S. on Sept. 12, 1921, and buried in Bethania Cemetery, Rosholt, S. Dak.

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

Basil Skraba photo 1918

Pvt.1st Class Basil Skraba

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: July 18, 1918 / Age: 23

Killed in action on July 18, 1918.

Grave unlocated.

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

Ferl Oliver Hayes photo 1918

Private Ferl Oliver Hayes

World War I

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

John Gottfred Anderson photo 1918

Pvt.1st Class John Gottfred Anderson

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 138th Infantry Regiment, 35th Division

Date of Loss: December 11, 1918 / Age: 26

Died of accidental gunshot wound, on Dec. 11, 1918.

Buried, Grave 26, Row 8, Block D, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

Louis Christian Jensen photo 1918

Pvt. Louis Christian Jensen

Ryder, ND

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 14th Company, Camp A. A. Humphreys September Automatic Replacement Draft

Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 41

Died at Brest, France, of broncho pneumonia, on Oct. 12, 1918.

Buried, Grave 8, Row 30, Block D, Oise-Aisne American Cemtery, Seringes-et-Nesles, Aisne, France.

Fred Slinker photo 1918

Fred Slinker

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: June 03, 1918 / Age: 29

Killed in action on June 3, 1918.

Grave unlocated.

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

John Klukas photo 1918

John Klukas

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company L, 78th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 07, 1918 / Age: 29

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 7, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 2, page 1699 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Edward Nicholas Weber photo 1918

Edward Nicholas Weber

St. Martin, MN

World War I

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.