State Heroes

Cpl. Cecil Claude Smith

World 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

World 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.

Cpt. Jo. Hunt Reaney

Date of Loss: January 01, 1918 / Age:

Cpl. Fred M. Grube

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 161st Ambulance Company, 116th Sanitary Train

Date of Loss: December 31, 1917 / Age: 25

Died on Dec. 31, 1917.

Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on Oct. 13, 1920, and buried in Greenwood Cemetery, Auburndale, Wis.

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

John Herbert Jones

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company I, 164th Infantry

Date of Loss: December 27, 1917 / Age: 21

Died of pneumonia, at New York, N. Y., on Dec. 27, 1917.

Buried at Wahpeton, N. Dak.

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

Nelson A. Burchett

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company No. 353, 314th Sanitary Train

Date of Loss: December 26, 1917 / Age: 20

Died of pneumonia, at Fort Riley, Kans., on Dec. 26, 1917.

Buried at Collins, Mo.

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

Scott Theodore Bredell

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 164th Infantry

Date of Loss: December 22, 1917 / Age: 19

Died at Hoboken, N. J., on Dec. 22, 1917.

Buried in Riverside Cemetery, Fargo, N. Dak.

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

Emmet J. McKinney

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: School of Fire Detachment, Field Artillery

Date of Loss: December 19, 1917 / Age: 17

Died of pneumonia, at Fort Sill, Okla., on Dec. 19, 1917.

Buried at Edgeley, N. Dak.

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

Charles Anderson

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery E, 338th Field Artillery

Date of Loss: December 19, 1917 / Age: 25

Died at Camp Dodge, Iowa, on Dec. 19, 1917.

Buried at Sanger, N. Dak.

Name NOT included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

Jesse J. Phipps

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 164th Infantry

Date of Loss: December 09, 1917 / Age: 25

Died of pneumonia on Dec. 9, 1917.

Ernst C. Bearson

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 164th Infantry

Date of Loss: December 09, 1917 / Age: 23

Died of broncho pneumonia on Dec. 9, 1917.

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

Information found in Volume 1, page 205 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Pvt.1st Class Lyle Barnes Rich

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Medical Department, Base Hospital No. 18

Date of Loss: December 08, 1917 / Age: 26

Died of typhoid fever, on Dec. 8, 1917.

Buried, Grave 34, Row 39, Block C, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Gordon B. McGregor

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 16th Infantry

Date of Loss: November 28, 1917 / Age: 27

Died of heart disease on Nov. 28, 1917.

Buried in Grave 30, Row 39, Block C, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

John Engen

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery C, 338th Field Artillery

Date of Loss: November 17, 1917 / Age: 25

Died of pneumonia at Camp Dodge, Iowa, on Nov. 17, 1917.

Buried at Braham, Minn.