State Heroes
World War I
1918
Willis O. Gish
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 8th Ammunition Train
Date of Loss: July 14, 1918 / Age: 28
Murdered - strangulation - on July 14, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 2, page 1060 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Pvt.1st Class John J. Nimmo
Devils Lake, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Medical Department
Date of Loss: July 13, 1918 / Age: 28
Died of appendicitis on July 13, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 3, page 2337 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Pvt. Carl Alfred Oefstedahl
Spring Grove, MNWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company L, 138th Infantry
Date of Loss: July 11, 1918 / Age: 25
Killed in action on July 11, 1918.
Remains returned to U. S. on Aug. 1, 1921, and buried at Spring Grove, Minn.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Joseph Pirkl
Owatonna, MNWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company L, 138th Infantry
Date of Loss: July 11, 1918 / Age: 29
Killed in action on July 11, 1918.
Buried, Grave 22, Row 26, Block D, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
1918
Pvt. Jonas A. Helland
Binford, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 137th Infantry Regiment, 35th Division
Date of Loss: July 09, 1918 / Age: 24
Died of meningitis on July 9, 1918.
Buried, Grave 13, Row 22, Block A, Somme American Cemetery, Bony, Aisne, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Martin Sanders
Mekinock, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 138th Infantry
Date of Loss: July 06, 1918 / Age: 24
Killed in action, July 6, 1918.
Remains returned to U. S. on Oct. 31, 1921, and buried in Middle Grove Cemetery, Mekinock, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Peter Semevolos
Butte, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 138th Infantry
Date of Loss: July 06, 1918 / Age: 26
Killed in action on July 6, 1918.
Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on May 31, 1921, and buried at Butte, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND as Pete Semevolos.
1918
2nd Lt. Grant Andrew McDonald
Grafton, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 349th Infantry
Date of Loss: July 04, 1918 / Age: 23
Died at Camp Dodge, Iowa, on July 4, 1918, of accidental gunshot wound.
Buried at Grafton, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Cook Clair Louis Bixby
Brainerd, MNWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company K, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: July 04, 1918 / Age: 24
Died in France, of pneumonia, on July 4, 1918.
Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on Oct. 26, 1920, and buried at Brainerd, Minn.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Lt. Edgar A. Fisher
Valley City, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 38th Infantry
Date of Loss: July 01, 1918 / Age: 28
Drowned in Marne River on July 1, 1918, while in command of a detail to capture prisoners across the river.
1918
Thomas Frederick McCarthy
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company F, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: June 29, 1918 / Age: 21
Killed in action, June 29, 1918.
Buried in Arlington Cemetery, Virginia.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND under Cass county.
1918
Frederick Jonas Renn
Osakis, MNWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: June 29, 1918 / Age: 28
Killed in action on June 29, 1918.
Buried in France. Reburied at Osakis, Minn.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Wilford Degree
Stewart, MNWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: June 28, 1918 / Age: 19
Died on June 28, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Remains returned to U. S. on March 28, 1921, and buried in St. Boniface Cemetery, Stewart, Minn.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Victor Edward Bogert
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 54th Battalion, Canadian Infantry
Date of Loss: June 27, 1918 / Age: 21
Died in France on June 27, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 1, page 325 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Austin Fortune
Wheaton, MNWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Medical Department
Date of Loss: June 27, 1918 / Age: 29
Died at Fort Riley, Kans., on June 27, 1918.
Buried at Wheaton, Minn.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.