State Heroes

Cpl. Claude Bacil Bartow

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 327th Infantry Regiment, 82nd Division

Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 22

Killed in action, on Oct. 11, 1918.

Buried in Grave 16, Row 8, Block B, Argonne-American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Andrew Clauson

World War I

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.

Gustav Carlson

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 14th Company, 163rd Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 28

Died of influenza on Oct. 10, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 1, page 500 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Pvt. John S. Bannister

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 22

Killed in action, Meuse-Argonne, Oct. 10, 1918.

Remains returned to U. S. on Oct. 17, 1921, and buried in Highland Cemetery, Jamestown, N. Dak.

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

Wagoner Ray Earl Vessey

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters Company, 339th Machine Gun Battalion

Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 26

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 10, 1918.

Buried, Grave 29, Row 23, Block E, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

William Arthur Rasmusen

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery A, 40th Field Artillery

Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 28

Died of pneumonia at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 10, 1918.

Buried at Fargo, N. Dak.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND as William A Rasmussen.

Albert Nansen Olson

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery C, 42nd Field Artillery

Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 22

Died of pneumonia at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 10, 1918.

Buried at Dazey, N. Dak.

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

Pvt.1st Class Ernest Julius Alfred Erickson

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 361st Infantry

Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 29

Killed in action in Argonne Forest, on Oct. 10, 1918.

Buried, Wilton, N. Dak.

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

Pvt. Boyd Eagleson

World War I

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.

Pvt. James Andrew Conery

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery B, 127th Field Artillery

Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 23

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 10, 1918.

Buried in France; remains returned to U. S. on Nov. 18, 1920, and buried in Lakeside Cemetery, Graceville, Minn.

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

Sgt. Ross Reuben Chapman

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company G, 30th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 21

Killed in action at Meuse-Argonne, on Oct. 10, 1918.

Remains returned to U. S., Sept. 7, 1921, and buried at Hanover, Ill.

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

John Batsch

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company K, 10th Infantry

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 1, page 195 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Walter B. Brown

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 22

Killed in action on Oct. 10, 1918.

Remains returned to U. S. on Oct. 10, 1921, and buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Brainerd, Minn.

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

Maurice Verschelde

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Ambulance Company No. 350, 313th Sanitary Train

Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 27

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 10, 1918.

Buried, Grave 25, Row 25, Block G, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Fred W. Skubinna

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Supply Company, 41st Field Artillery

Date of Loss: October 10, 1918 / Age: 23

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 10, 1918, at Camp Custer, Mich.

Buried, Churchtown, N. Dak.

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