State Heroes

Pvt.1st Class Albert T. Vanderwaal

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 348th Machine Gun Battalion

Date of Loss: November 01, 1918 / Age: 29

Killed in action on Nov. 1, 1918.

Buried, Grave 1, Row 4, Block D, Flanders Field American Cemetery, Waereghem, Belgium.

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

Roger Thompson

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company K, 8th Infantry

Date of Loss: November 01, 1918 / Age: 24

Died of pneumonia at Hoboken, N. J., on Nov. 1, 1918.

Buried at Neche, N. Dak.

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

Pvt. John O. Fenne

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 357th Infantry Regiment, 90th Division

Date of Loss: November 01, 1918 / Age: 28

Died on Nov. 1, 1918, of wounds received in action.

Buried, Grave 4, Row 29, Block A, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Clifford Louis Lantis

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery A, 13th Field Artillery

Date of Loss: November 01, 1918 / Age: 23

Died on Nov. 1, 1918, to wounds received in action.

Buried, Grave 19, Row 5, Block C, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Pvt. Albert Emil Johnson

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company L, 148th Infantry

Date of Loss: November 01, 1918 / Age: 27

Died, Nov. 1, 1918, of wounds received in action.

Remains returned to U. S. on May 13, 1921, and buried in Riverside Cemetery, Fargo, N. Dak.

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

Harry R. Thompson

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 25th Engineers

Date of Loss: November 01, 1918 / Age: 32

Died of pneumonia on Nov. 1, 1918.

Buried, Grave 26, Row 4, Block A, Suresnes American Cemetery, Suresnes, Seine, France.

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

Martin Olof Ruud

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 343rd Machine Gun Battalion

Date of Loss: November 01, 1918 / Age: 31

Killed in action on Nov. 1, 1918.

Buried, Grave 18, Row 41, Block D, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Theodore Togstad

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company L, 362nd Infantry

Date of Loss: October 31, 1918 / Age: 26

Killed in action on Oct. 31, 1918.

Buried, Grave 2, Row 2, Block B, Flanders Field American Cemetery, Waereghem, Belgium.

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

Joseph Aloysius Nowatzki

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 352nd Infantry

Date of Loss: October 31, 1918 / Age: 22

Died of pneumonia at Hericourt, France, on Oct. 31, 1918.

Buried in Grave 7, Row 24, Block G, Argonne-American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

Pvt.1st Class Ambrose Soren Knudson

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 31, 1918 / Age: 22

Killed in action, Oct. 31, 1918.

Buried, Gave 32, Row 6, Block E, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Frederick C. Petter Roll

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Ambulance Company No. 352, 313tth Sanitary Train

Date of Loss: October 31, 1918 / Age: 24

Died of influenza at Hericourt, France, on Oct. 31, 1918.

Buried at Hericourt, France. Remains returned to U. S. May 25, 1921, and buried in Evergreen Cemetery, Brainerd, Minn.

Robert C. Tovsrud

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 135th Machine Gun Battalion

Date of Loss: October 31, 1918 / Age: 23

Killed in action on Oct. 31, 1918.

Buried, Grave 17, Row 1, Block D, Flanders Field American Cemetery, Waereghem, Belgium.

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

Reinhold D. Schaefer

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company G, 362nd Infantry

Date of Loss: October 31, 1918 / Age: 23

Killed in action at Stenburg, Belgium, on Oct. 31, 1918.

Buried in Grave 6, Row 3, Block B, Flanders Field American Cemetery, Waereghem, Belgium.

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

Cook Rudolph Chloupek

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company L, 359th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 30, 1918 / Age: 29

Died on Oct. 30, 1918, of wounds received in action.

Buried in American Cemetery, Senoncourt, Meuse, France; reburied at Mahnomen, Minn.

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

Private Edmond Orning

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Student Army Training Corps UND Grand Forks ND

Date of Loss: October 31, 1918 / Age: 21

Died while serving as a member of the Student Army Training Corps  on the UND campus in Grand Forks during the 1918 flu pandemic. Name included on the UND S.A.T.C. website