State Heroes
World War I
1918
Saddler John E. Berggren
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Supply Troop, 8th Cavalry
Date of Loss: November 30, 1918 / Age: 34
Died of pneumonia on Nov. 30, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 1, page 256 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Pvt. Elmer W. Hodge
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 339th Infantry
Date of Loss: November 29, 1918 / Age: 28
Killed in action on Nov. 29, 1918.
Grave unlocated.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Clarence Charles Carey
Lidgerwood, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company L, 77th Infantry
Date of Loss: November 28, 1918 / Age: 28
Died at Camp Custer, Mich., on Nov. 28, 1918. Influenza.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Wagoner William Raymond Kelley
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 465th Engineers Pontoon Train
Date of Loss: November 28, 1918 / Age: 32
Drowned, accidentally, in the Moselle River, Nov. 28, 1918.
Buried, Grave 30, Row 12, Block B, St. Mihiel American Cemetery, Thiaucourt, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France.
1918
John Severin Johnson
Medo, MNWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company M, 102nd Infantry
Date of Loss: November 26, 1918 / Age: 28
Died on Nov. 26, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Remains returned to U. S. and buried in Medo Lutheran Cemetery, Medo, Minn.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Willie Bartlett Matson
Aneta, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 309th Engineers
Date of Loss: November 25, 1918 / Age: 21
Died of pneumonia, at St. Nazaire, France, on Nov. 25, 1918.
Remains returned to U. S. on Sept. 29, 1920, and buried at Aneta, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Joseph A. Tandberg
Northwood`, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Students Army Training Corps
Date of Loss: November 25, 1918 / Age: 18
Died of pneumonia, at Northfield, Minn., on Nov. 25, 1918.
Buried, Northwood, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Ben Carlot Johnson
World War I
Branch of Service: Marines
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 2nd Separate Machine Gun Battalion
Date of Loss: November 20, 1918 / Age: 30
Died of pneumonia on Nov. 20, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 2, page 1534 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
John Joe Rybus
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Field Remount Squadron No. 325
Date of Loss: November 20, 1918 / Age: 20
Died of pneumonia on Nov. 20, 1918.
Buried, Grave 2, Row 32, Block A, Oise-Aisne American Cemetery, Seringes-et-Nesles, Aisne, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND as John Rigbus.
1918
Sergeant Leo Nebraske
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company I, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: November 19, 1918 / Age:
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Name included on the Richland County Memorial at County Court House. With *
1918
Henry Ramberg
Kinloss, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company G, 306th Infantry
Date of Loss: November 18, 1918 / Age: 22
Died of bronchitis, Nov. 18, 1918.
Buried, Grave 40, Row 22, Block A, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt. Michael Babich
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Division
Date of Loss: November 18, 1918 / Age: 27
Died on Nov. 18, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Buried, Grave 17, Row 5, Block H, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
1918
Private Alfred Matthews
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Date of Loss: November 18, 1918 / Age: 19
Buried at Atlantic View Cemetery, Manasquan, New Jersey.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information NOT found in the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Pvt. Sevrin Bourk
Sykeston, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 1st Army Headquarters Regiment
Date of Loss: November 18, 1918 / Age: 22
Killed by prisoner when making an arrest as a Military Police, on Nov. 18, 1918, at La Harve, France.
Buried, Grave 10, Row 19, Block B, Somme American Cemetery, Bony, Aisne, France.
1918
Melvin Ostby
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 303rd Mechanics Repair Shop, Motor Transport Corps
Date of Loss: November 17, 1918 / Age: 22
Died of pneumonia on Nov. 17, 1918.
Buried in Grave 34, Row 11, Block A, St. Mihiel American Cemetery, Thiaucourt, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.