State Heroes
World War I
1918
Earl Alfred Smith
Greenville, ILWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 6th Engineers Trains
Date of Loss: October 30, 1918 / Age: 26
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 30, 1918.
Buried, Grave 22, Row 18, Block A, St. Mihiel American Cemetery, Thiaucourt, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Seaman 2c Earl Ray Lewis
Rolla, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Navy
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, N. H.
Date of Loss: October 29, 1918 / Age: 22
Died at Naval Hospital, Portsmouth, N. H., on Oct. 29, 1918.
Buried, Rolla, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Edward Metzger
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery F, 339th Field Artillery
Date of Loss: October 29, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 29, 1918.
Buried, Grave 19, Row 7, Block B, Aisne-Marne American Cemetery, Belleau, Aisne, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Cpt. Addison Bentley Falconer
Bismarck, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 75th Coast Artillery Corps
Date of Loss: October 29, 1918 / Age: 28
Died at Base Hospital No. 65, France, Oct. 29, 1918.
Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on July 15, 1920, and buried in Fairview Cemetery, Bismarck, N. Dak., July 19, 1920.
1918
John A. Winden
Northwood, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 137th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 29, 1918 / Age: 22
Died in Base Hospital No. 25, on Oct. 29, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Buried at Allerey, France. Remains returned to U. S. on Feb. 21, 1921, and buried in South Lutheran Cemetery, Northwood, N. Dak.
1918
Elmer Peterson
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters Company, 339th Field Artillery
Date of Loss: October 28, 1918 / Age: 28
Died of pneumonia, at Clermont-Ferrand, France, on Oct. 28, 1918.
Buried, Grave 4, Row 9, Block B, Aisne-Marne American Cemetery, Belleau, Aisne, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Louis John Volesky
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 19th Company, 2nd Group, Motor Truck Detachment, Camp Hancock, Ga.
Date of Loss: October 28, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of influenza on Oct. 28, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 4, page 3351 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Pvt. Albert Gessweine
Bowden, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters Company, 137th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 28, 1918 / Age: 25
Died of heart disease on Oct. 28, 1918.
1918
Emil Lyman Newman
Carthage, ILWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company G, 20th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 28, 1918 / Age: 17
Died in Base Hospital, Fort Riley, Kans., on Oct. 28, 1918.
Buried, Carthage, Ill.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt. Arthur Berthold Marschke
Enderlin, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Machine Gun Company, 101st Infantry
Date of Loss: October 28, 1918 / Age: 27
Killed in action on Oct. 28, 1918.
Buried in Grave 6, Row 43, Block E, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
1918
Jacob T. Slaatte
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 358th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 28, 1918 / Age: 24
Died of pneumonia, on Oct. 28, 1918.
Buried, Grave 23, 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.
1918
Edwin Erickson
Walcott, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 27th Company Casual Detachment, Spruce Production Division
Date of Loss: October 27, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of pneumonia at Camp Lewis Washington on October 27-1918. Buried at Walcott, Richland County, North Dakota.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
WWI Student Army Training Corps
1918
Private Morris Engvold Brandvik
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Student Army Training Corps UND Grand Forks ND
Date of Loss: October 29, 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
1918
Sergeant Frank M. Armstrong
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Student Army Training Corps UND Grand Forks ND
Date of Loss: October 29, 1918 / Age: 31
Died of pnuemonia while serving as a member of the Student Army Training Corps  on the UND campus in Grand Forks North Dakota during the 1918 flu pandemic. Name included on the UND S.A.T.C. website
1918
Private Frank Peter Dostert
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Student Army Training Corps UND Grand Forks ND
Date of Loss: October 28, 1918 / Age: 20
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