State Heroes

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.

Pvt. Arthur N. Gorder

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 125th Field Artillery Regiment, 34th Division

Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 23

Died of pneumonia at Liverpool, England, on Oct. 14, 1918.

Buried, Grave 6, Row 2, Block D, Brookwood American Cemetery, Brookwood, England.

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.

Ole Semeling, Jr.

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company I, 305th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 13, 1918 / Age: 25

Killed in action in Argonne drive, on Oct. 13, 1918.

Buried in Grave 36, Row 11, Block H, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

Pvt.1st Class Cornelous Olson

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters Company, 70th Field Artillery

Date of Loss: October 13, 1918 / Age: 33

Died of broncho pneumonia on Oct. 13, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 3, page 2410 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Carl Gustav Berg

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 50th Company, 13th Battalion, 163rd Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: October 13, 1918 / Age: 26

Died of pneumonia, at Camp Dodge, Iowa, on Oct. 13, 1918.

Buried at Klara, N. Dak.

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

Cpl. Orval Manning

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company F, 344th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 13, 1918 / Age: 25

Died of pneumonia, on Oct. 13, 1918.

Buried in American Cemetery of Talence, (Gironde), France. Remains returned to U. S. Nov. 15, 1920, and buried in Grave 904, National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.

Cpl. Jacob Fred Ouhl

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 39th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 13, 1918 / Age: 22

Killed in action, Oct. 13, 1918, Argonne Forest.

Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on Sept. 12, 1921, and buried at Cavalier, N. Dak.

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

Martin Thompson

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 11th Company, 3rd Battalion, 160th Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: October 13, 1918 / Age: 24

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 13, 1918, at Camp Custer, Mich.

Buried Wyndmere, N. Dak.

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

William Jasmer

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 13, 1918 / Age: 24

Died at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 13, 1918.

Buried at Lutheran cemetery, Hankinson, N. Dak.

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

Pvt. Roy McKinley Basford

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 13, 1918 / Age: 21

Killed in action in battle of Argonne, on Oct. 13, 1918.

Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on Sept. 3, 1921, and buried in Grave 2736, European Section, Arlington National Cemetery, Va.

Private Warren Arthur Parker

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Student Army Training Corps UND Grand Forks ND

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

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