State Heroes

Bugler Charles Martin Root

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 37th Battalion, US Guards, The Presidio of San Francisco, Calif.

Date of Loss: October 24, 1918 / Age: 26

Died of pneumonia, on Oct. 24, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 4, page 2753 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Pvt.1st Class Sidney Birch Stephens

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 24, 1918 / Age: 32

Died of broncho pneumonia on Oct. 24, 1918.

Buried, Grave 37, Row 41, Block D, Oise-Aisne American Cemetery, Seringes-et-Nesles, Aisne, France.

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

William E Brown

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 3rd Company, Veterinary Training School

Date of Loss: October 24, 1918 / Age: 25

Died of pneumonia, at Lodi, Wis., on Oct. 24, 1918.

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

Floyd Eugene Scroggin

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 13th Machine Gun Battalion

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

Killed in action at Mt. Falcon, France, on Oct. 23, 1918.

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

Cpl. William T. Henry

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 329th Aero Service Squadron

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

Died of disease at Salisbury Plains, England, on Oct. 23, 1918.

Buried, Grave 12, Row 5, Block C, Brookwood American Cemetery, Brookwood, England.

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

Pvt.1st Class Clair Edward Mead

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters Company, 118th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 23, 1918 / Age: 26

Died, Oct. 23, 1918, at Surrey, England, of wounds received in action.

Remains returned to U. S. on June 2, 1920, and buried at Valley City, N. Dak.

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

Pvt. Arthur Korsmo

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters Company, 137th Field Artillery

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

Died of cerebro spinal meningitis, at Turleville, France, on Oct. 23, 1918.

Buried at Turleville, France; remains returned to U. S. on July 19, 1921, and buried in Riverside Cemetery, Fargo, N. Dak.

Walter Norman Donaldson

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 210th Engineers

Date of Loss: October 23, 1918 / Age: 26

Died of pneumonia, at Fort Riley, Kans., on Oct. 23, 1918.

Buried at Big Bend, Wis.

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

Theodor B. Tonneson

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Ambulance Company No. 352, 313th Sanitary Train, Medical Department

Date of Loss: October 23, 1918 / Age: 26

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 23, 1918.

Buried, Grave 16, Row 45, Block D, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

Wagoner Herbert Francis Stroberger

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 12th Machine Gun Battalion

Date of Loss: October 23, 1918 / Age: 22

Died of broncho pneumonia, on Oct. 23, 1918.

Buried, Grave 12, Row 3, Block D, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Wagoner Frank M. Kain

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 127th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Division

Date of Loss: October 23, 1918 / Age: 22

Died of pneumonia, on Oct. 23, 1918.

Buried, Grave 14, Row 28, Block F, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Nurse Mabel C. Christenson

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Date of Loss: October 22, 1918 / Age: 26

Died on Oct. 22, 1918, of pneumonia.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND under Grand Forks and Ward counties.

Pvt.1st Class Loe James Billings

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 303rd Field Signal Battalion

Date of Loss: October 22, 1918 / Age: 29

Killed in action on Oct. 22, 1918.

Buried in France. Reburied at Lisbon, N. Dak.

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

Henry Miller

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 313th Ammunition Train

Date of Loss: October 22, 1918 / Age: 23

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 22, 1918.

Remains returned to U. S., Oct. 31, 1921, and buried at Glasgow, Mont.