State Heroes
World War I

Pvt. Clarence Victor Beckley
Paynesville, MNWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 116th Field Signal Battalion
Date of Loss: September 22, 1918 / Age: 21
Died of pneumonia, Sept. 22, 1918, at Field Hospital, St. Angnias, Noyers, France.
Buried in St. Angnias, Noyers, France. Remains returned to U. S. on Nov. 3, 1920, and buried at Paynesville, Minn.
AS John Adolph Singer
Mercer, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Navy
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Naval Hospital, Great Lakes, Ill.
Date of Loss: September 22, 1918 / Age: 20
Died at Great Lakes, Ill., on Sept. 22, 1918.
Buried at Mercer, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
John Thomas Morton
Page, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Machine Gun Company, 58th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 22, 1918 / Age: 25
Died on Sept. 22, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Buried in France; remains returned to U. S. on Nov. 18, 1920, and buried at Page, N. Dak.
Name NOT included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Leonard Andrew Poe
World War I
Branch of Service: Navy
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Naval Hospital, Great Lakes, Ill.
Date of Loss: September 22, 1918 / Age: 19
Died in Naval Hospital, Great Lakes, Ill., on Sept. 22, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Sgt. James Harold Riordan
Charles City, IAWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 269th Aero Squadron
Date of Loss: September 21, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of pneumonia, at St. Maxien, France, on Sept. 21, 1918.
Buried, St. Maxien, France. Reburied, Charles City, Iowa, Nov. 1, 1920.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
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.
Arthur Olson Nasset
Van Hook, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 75th Infantry
Date of Loss: September 20, 1918 / Age: 28
Died of pneumonia, Sept. 20, 1918, at Camp Lewis, Wash.
Buried, Van Hook, N. Dak.
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.
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.
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.

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.

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.
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.

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.