State Heroes

Joseph Gion

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 40th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 15, 1918 / Age:

Died of pneumonia, at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 15, 1918.

Buried at Regent, N. Dak.

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

Emil Matejcek

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 15, 1918 / Age: 25

Died of broncho pneumonia at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 15, 1918.

Buried at Sheldon, N. Dak.

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

Charles L. Foy

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 13th Company, 4th Battalion, 160th Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: October 15, 1918 / Age: 26

Died of pneumonia, at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 15, 1918.

Buried at Langdon, N. Dak.

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

John Louis Scheidt

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 60th Balloon Company

Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 31

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 14, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 4, page 2845 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Theodore Arved Anderson

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 29

Died of pneumonia, at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 14, 1918.

Buried at Gwinner, N. Dak.

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

Jacob P. Kleinsasser

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 313th Ammunition Train

Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 27

Died in France, Oct. 14, 1918.

Buried in French-American Military Cemetery, France. Reburied in Lutheran Cemetery, Max, N. Dak.

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

Albert Benedict Ries

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 21

Died at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 14, 1918.

Buried at Jamestown, N. Dak.

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

Harry Schwind

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 128th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 24

Killed in action on Oct. 14, 1918.

Buried, Grave 1, Row 41, Block D, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

Cpl. Elmer F. Rushfeldt

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 137th Machine Gun Battalion

Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 28

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 14, 1918.

Buried at sea.

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

Pvt. Ole Iverson

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 128th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 28

Died on Oct. 14, 1918, of wounds received in action.

Remains returned to U. S. Sept. 26, 1921, and buried at Carson, N. Dak.

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

Pvt. Einer Jensen

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 7th Engineer Regiment, 5th Division

Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 30

Killed in action on Oct. 14, 1918.

Buried, Grave 25, Row 5, Block E, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Carl Otto Lindner

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 14th Mobile Veterinary Section

Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 26

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 14, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 3, page 1907 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Henry C. Roder

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 10th Detachment, Administration Labor Company

Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 28

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 14, 1918.

Remains returned to U. S. and buried at Anamoose, N. Dak.

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

Fireman 3c Floyd Albert Cooper

World War I

Branch of Service: Navy

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: USS Mercy

Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 19

Died at Yorktown, Va., on Oct. 14, 1918.

Buried, Leith, N. Dak.

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

Pvt. John Jacob Hoffman

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 352nd Infantry Regiment, 88th Division

Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 22

Died of pneumonia, at Hericourt, France, on Oct. 14, 1918.

Buried, Grave 28, Row 14, Block D, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.