State Heroes
World War I
Pvt.1st Class William Max Crabtree
Jamestown, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Cadet Detachment
Date of Loss: March 25, 1919 / Age: 20
Died in airplane accident, at Fort Sill, Okla., on March 25, 1919.
Buried at Jamestown, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Cook Clarence William Jacobson
Amidon, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery E, 338th Field Artillery
Date of Loss: March 25, 1919 / Age: 25
Died, Slope Center, N. Dak., on March 25, 1919.
Buried, Amidon, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Cpl. Thomas George Laughlin
Grand Forks, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company M, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: March 22, 1919 / Age: 22
Accidentally killed by passenger train, in France, on March 22, 1919.
Remains returned to U. S. on July 7, 1922, and consigned to James Laughlin, Grand Forks, N. Dak. (place of burial not given).
Allen W. Stanton
Lakeview, MIWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 115th Infantry
Date of Loss: March 20, 1919 / Age: 23
Died at US Base Hospital No. 69, Army Postoffice No. 939, Savenay, France, March 20, 1919.
Remains returned to U. S. Oct. 6, 1920, and buried at Winfield Cemetery, Lakeview, Mich.
Jacob Ben Fisher
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company L, 349th Infantry
Date of Loss: March 19, 1919 / Age: 24
Died at Camp Upton, N. Y., on March 19, 1919.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 1, page 918 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
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Michael Jay McElvain
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 67th Company, Transportation Corps
Date of Loss: March 16, 1919 / Age: 28
Died of typhoid fever on March 16, 1919.
Buried, Grave 3, Row 31, Block F, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Pvt.1st Class Ray A. Halver
Bismarck, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 40th Company, Transportation Corps
Date of Loss: March 16, 1919 / Age: 34
Died of typhoid fever on March 16, 1919.
Remains returned to U. S. on May 31, 1921, and buried in Grave 1785, Arlington National Cemetery, Va.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Cpl. Eldred Elmore Siltman
Browersville, MNWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: March 16, 1919 / Age: 26
Died of disease in France on March 16, 1919.
Remains returned to U. S. on Oct. 12, 1920. Buried at Browersville, Minn.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
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Pvt.1st Class Gordon Harold Powers
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Ordnance Repair Shops, Motor Transport Corps
Date of Loss: March 14, 1919 / Age: 23
Died of influenza on March 14, 1919.
Buried, Grave 28, Row 19, Block A, St. Mihiel American Cemetery, Thiaucourt, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
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Charles Karl Nielson
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 339th Machine Gun Battalion
Date of Loss: March 14, 1919 / Age: 24
Died of pneumonia on March 14, 1919.
Buried, Grave 26, Row 16, Block E, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Apprentice Seaman Olaf Sigurd Haiberg
Crosby, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Navy
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Navy Rifle Range, Rumford, Ill.
Date of Loss: March 11, 1919 / Age: 19
Died in Naval Hospital, N. Y., on March 11, 1919.
Buried at Troy Cemetery, Crosby, ND.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1st Lt. William LaFayette Cowper
Grand Forks, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Medical Corps
Date of Loss: March 09, 1919 / Age: 41
Died at Camp Hospital No. 40, Anur Rest Camp, Liverpool, England, on March 9, 1919.
Buried in Cemetery No. 288, Liverpool, England. Remains returned to U. S. on Aug. 23, 1920, and buried at Grand Forks, N. Dak., on Sept. 7, 1920.
Sgt. Peter O. Sunde
Wadena, MNWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 54th Infantry
Date of Loss: March 03, 1919 / Age: 31
Died of pneumonia on March 3, 1919.
Remains returned to U. S. June 14, 1921, and buried at Wadena, Minn.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Oscar O. Haugen
Badger, MNWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 2nd Engineers
Date of Loss: February 26, 1919 / Age: 25
Died at Angus, Germany, on Feb. 26, 1919.
Buried, Badger, Roseau county, Minn.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND under Ward county.
Pvt. Harry Merton Hardy
Bernstad [sic] (possibly Burnstad), NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 1st Field Signal Battalion
Date of Loss: February 22, 1919 / Age: 30
Died of pneumonia on Feb. 22, 1919, at Coblenz, Germany.