State Heroes
World War I
CMA3 Hershel Owen
Taylorville, ILWorld War I
Branch of Service: Navy
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Naval Air Station, St. Trojan
Date of Loss: September 20, 1918 / Age: 20
Died of pneumonia on Sept. 20, 1918.
Buried in France cemetery.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
LMMA Percy Alvin Little
World War I
Branch of Service: Navy
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Naval Hospital, Great Lakes, Ill.
Date of Loss: September 20, 1918 / Age: 26
Died in Naval Hospital, Great Lakes, Ill., on Sept. 20, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Sigvard Bernhard Aasen
Clifford, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 15th Service Company, Signal Corps
Date of Loss: September 18, 1918 / Age: 25
Died at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., on Sept. 18, 1918.
Buried at Clifford, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Pvt. Roy Martinus Clementson
Powers Lake, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 357th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 17, 1918 / Age: 22
Killed in action on Sept. 17, 1918.
Remains returned to U. S., May 13, 1922, and buried in Grandview Cemetery, Burbank, Calif.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
![Olaf Fiske photo](/sites/www/files/styles/image_original/public/documents/person/St.%2520Mihiel%2520American%2520Cemetery.jpg?itok=ABN9frng&cb=6a30b4b7&cb=6a30b4b7)
Pvt. Olaf Fiske
Colfax, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 357th Infantry Regiment, 90th Division
Date of Loss: September 17, 1918 / Age: 23
Killed in action in Metz vicinity, Sept. 17, 1918.
Buried, Grave 23, Row 18, Block D, St. Mihiel American Cemetery, Thiaucourt, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Cpl. Anton Henry Ulijohn
New England, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company K, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 17, 1918 / Age: 22
Died, Sept. 17, 1918, of wounds received in action, near St. Mihiel, France.
Buried, Vertrezay, France. Remains returned to U. S. on June 27, 1921, and buried in St. Mary's Catholic Cemetery, New England, N. Dak.
![George A. Potel photo](/sites/www/files/styles/image_original/public/documents/person/St.%2520Mihiel%2520American%2520Cemetery.jpg?itok=ABN9frng&cb=6a30b4b7&cb=6a30b4b7)
Sgt. George A. Potel
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 16, 1918 / Age: 20
Died, Sept. 16, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Buried, Grave 6, Row 3, Block C, St. Mihiel American Cemetery, Thiaucourt, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France.
![Alfred T. Runnestrand photo](/sites/www/files/styles/image_original/public/documents/person/St.%2520Mihiel%2520American%2520Cemetery.jpg?itok=ABN9frng&cb=6a30b4b7&cb=6a30b4b7)
Alfred T. Runnestrand
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company M, 356th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 15, 1918 / Age: 25
Killed in action on Sept. 15, 1918.
Buried, Grave 20, Row 26, Block B, St. Mihiel American Cemetery, Thiaucourt, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France.
![Arthur Thomas Solie photo](/sites/www/files/styles/image_original/public/documents/person/St.%2520Mihiel%2520American%2520Cemetery.jpg?itok=ABN9frng&cb=6a30b4b7&cb=6a30b4b7)
Pvt.1st Class Arthur Thomas Solie
Ada, MNWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 360th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 15, 1918 / Age: 27
Killed in action on Sept. 15, 1918.
Buried, Grave 18, Row 18, Block D, St. Mihiel American Cemetery, Thiacourt, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Edward Alfred Miller
Sanger, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 110th Engineers
Date of Loss: September 15, 1918 / Age: 26
Died of brain abscess, on Sept. 15, 1918.
Remains returned to U. S. on Oct. 31, 1921, and buried in Grave 3817, European Section, National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
LER George Raymond Brannon
World War I
Branch of Service: Navy
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Naval Hospital, Great Lakes, Ill.
Date of Loss: September 15, 1918 / Age: 29
Died in Naval Hospital at Great Lakes, Ill., on Sept. 15, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Pvt.1st Class Levi Bartley Owen
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 358th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 14, 1918 / Age: 25
Died of wounds received in action, on Sept. 14, 1918, at Tuhl, near St. Mihiel.
Buried, St. Mihiel.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Albert Richard Nord
Carver, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company M, 358th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 14, 1918 / Age: 30
Died on Sept. 14, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Remains returned to U. S. on June 20, 1921, and buried in West Union Cemetery, Carver, Minn.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
![Gust A. Oberg photo](/sites/www/files/styles/image_original/public/documents/person/St.%2520Mihiel%2520American%2520Cemetery.jpg?itok=ABN9frng&cb=6a30b4b7&cb=6a30b4b7)
Gust A. Oberg
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company M, 357th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 13, 1918 / Age: 29
Killed in action on Sept. 13, 1918.
Buried, Grave 23, Row 8, Block C, St. Mihiel American Cemetery, Thiaucourt, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
![Ambrose O'Keefe photo](/sites/www/files/styles/image_original/public/documents/person/St.%2520Mihiel%2520American%2520Cemetery.jpg?itok=ABN9frng&cb=6a30b4b7&cb=6a30b4b7)
Pvt. Ambrose O'Keefe
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 14th Machine Gun Battalion
Date of Loss: September 13, 1918 / Age: 20
Killed in action on Sept. 13, 1918, near Verdun.
Buried, Grave 34, Row 16, Block B, St. Mihiel American Cemetery, Thiaucourt, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France.