State Heroes
World War I
Walter Anson Bloom
Bridgewater, IAWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company M, 348th Infantry
Date of Loss: January 27, 1918 / Age: 22
Died at Camp Pike, Ark., on Jan. 27, 1918.
Buried, Bridgewater, Iowa.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Cpl. Alvin Theodore Larson
Ashby, MNWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery C, 335th Field Artillery
Date of Loss: January 27, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of pneumonia at Camp Pike, Ark., on Jan. 27, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

Pvt.1st Class Harley Bertram Salzman
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 164th Ambulance Company, 116th Sanitary Train
Date of Loss: January 24, 1918 / Age: 20
Died of disease on Jan. 24, 1918.
Buried, Grave 28, Row 3, Block A, Suresnes American Cemetery, Suresnes, Seine, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Carl Melvin Askin
LaMoure, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company I, 348th Infantry
Date of Loss: January 16, 1918 / Age: 22
Died of broncho pneumonia, at Camp Pike, Ark., on Jan. 16, 1918.
Buried at LaMoure, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Martin Lewis Urdahl
Dahlen, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 312th Supply Train
Date of Loss: January 16, 1918 / Age: 22
Died of pneumonia at Camp Pike, Ark., on Jan. 16, 1918.
Buried, Dahlen, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
William Whalen
Leeds, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 164th Field Hospital, 116th Sanitary Train
Date of Loss: January 16, 1918 / Age: 29
Died of pneumonia, on Jan. 16, 1918.
Remains returned to U. S. on Dec. 28, 1920, and buried at Leeds, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Ira Dale Solenberger
Underwood, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 312th Engineers
Date of Loss: January 16, 1918 / Age: 22
Died at Camp Pike, Ark., on Jan. 16, 1918.
Buried, Underwood, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Clyde D. Axtell
Elgin, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery B, 336th Field Artillery
Date of Loss: January 10, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of broncho pneumonia, at Camp Pike, Ark., on Jan. 10, 1918.
Buried at Elgin, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Pvt. William Johnson
Glover, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: January 09, 1918 / Age: 20
Died of pneumonia, at Winchester, England, on Jan. 9, 1918.
Remains returned to U. S. June 14, 1920, and buried in Grave 36, National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
Sigval Opdahl
Sheldon, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company L, 348th Infantry
Date of Loss: January 09, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of broncho pneumonia, at Camp Pike, Ark., on Jan. 9, 1918.
Buried at Sheldon, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Seaman 2c Frank Freeburg
World War I
Branch of Service: Navy
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: USS Solace
Date of Loss: January 08, 1918 / Age: 22
Died at Naval Hospital, Norfolk, Va., on Jan. 8, 1918, as a Seaman 2nd Class.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
James Lunsden
Pete, WIWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: January 07, 1918 / Age: 17
Died at Winchester, England, of pneumonia, on Jan. 7, 1918.
Buried, Pete, Wis.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND as James T Lundsen.
Thomas John Wallace
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company F, 347th Infantry
Date of Loss: January 06, 1918 / Age: 22
Died of parenchymatous nephritis on Jan. 6, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

Cpl. Cecil Claude Smith
Tunnel City, WIWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: January 04, 1918 / Age: 25
Died of pneumonia, at Noyers, France, on Jan. 4, 1918.
Buried, Grave 27, Row 18, Block C, Oise-Aisne American Cemetery, Seringes-et-Nesles, Aisne, France.
Sgt. Theodore Joseph Valerius
Larimore, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 5th Field Battalion, Signal Corps
Date of Loss: January 04, 1918 / Age: 25
Died of pneumonia at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, on Jan. 4, 1918.
Buried at Larimore, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.