State Heroes
World War I
1918
Louis Charles Knuth
Balfour, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company No. 33, 161st Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: November 06, 1918 / Age: 30
Died of pneumonia, at Balfour, N. Dak., on Nov. 6, 1918.
Buried at Balfour, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Harold Bernard Gordanier
Fredonia, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Ordnance Guard Company No. 10, Ancor, Ohio
Date of Loss: November 05, 1918 / Age: 25
Died at Camp Ancor, Ohio, on Nov. 5, 1918.
Buried at Fredonia, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt. Andrew James Black
Berthold, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company I, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: November 05, 1918 / Age: 23
Killed in action on Nov. 5, 1918.
Buried in France. Reburied at Berthold, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt. John Herman Freitag
Clyde, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company G, 23rd Infantry
Date of Loss: November 04, 1918 / Age: 29
Killed in action, Argonne Forest, Nov. 4, 1918.
Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on Sept. 6, 1921, and buried at Munich, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Samuel Wingenbach
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 27th Company, Casual Detachment, Spruce Production Division, Vancouver Barracks, Wash.
Date of Loss: November 04, 1918 / Age: 25
Died of pneumonia on Nov. 4, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 4, page 3496 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Pvt.1st Class John D. English
Niagara, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 213th Field Signal Battalion
Date of Loss: November 04, 1918 / Age: 21
Died of empyema on Nov. 4, 1918, at Camp Lewis, Wash.
Buried at Niagara, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Albert Vaughn
Vestaburg, MIWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company I (Wahpeton), 1st North Dakota Infantry Regt
Date of Loss: November 03, 1918 / Age: 30
Died on November 3, 1918 of wounds received in action. Remains returned to US on January 3, 1921 and buried at Vestaburg Michigan.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
James Judson Roberts
Granite Falls, MNWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery C, 335th Field Artillery
Date of Loss: November 03, 1918 / Age: 24
Died of pneumonia, on Nov. 3, 1918.
Buried, Grave 14, Row 24, 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
John K. Flemmer
Glen Ullin, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 4th Company, 1st Development Battalion, 166th Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: November 03, 1918 / Age: 22
Died of pneumonia, at Camp Lewis, Wash., on Nov. 3, 1918.
Buried, Glen Ullin, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Martin Vos
Muskegon, MIWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 23rd Infantry
Date of Loss: November 03, 1918 / Age: 24
Killed in action on Nov. 3, 1918.
Buried, Grave 17, Row 16, Block C, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Louis John Otto
Hillsboro, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 137th Infantry
Date of Loss: November 03, 1918 / Age: 28
Died on Nov. 3, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Buried in Grave 413, Plot L, Cemetery 10, Chaumont, France. Remains returned to U. S. on June 6, 1921, and buried in Imanuel Lutheran Cemetery, Hillsboro, N. Dak.
1918
Leonard Levine Johnson
Kane, PAWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company G, 139th Infantry
Date of Loss: November 03, 1918 / Age: 23
Died on Nov. 3, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Remains returned to U. S. on June 1, 1921, and buried in Forest Lawn Cemetery, Kane, Pa.
Name NOT included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Howard Leland Cotton
Kasson, MNWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery F, 339th Field Artillery
Date of Loss: November 02, 1918 / Age: 29
Died of broncho pneumonia, on Nov. 2, 1918.
Buried in Grave 194, Row 2, Plot 13, Clermont-Ferrand, France. Remains returned to U. S. on Dec. 16, 1921, and consigned to Fred D. Cotton, Mantorville, Minn. (Place of burial not given).
1918
Wagoner Raymond Childs Medrow
Mt. Vernon, IAWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company K, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: November 02, 1918 / Age: 19
Killed in action on Nov. 2, 1918, in Meuse-Argonne offensive.
Buried, Mt. Vernon, Iowa.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND as Raymond C Nedrow.
WWI Student Army Training Corps
1918
Private Jacob William Busch
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Student Army Training Corps UND Grand Forks ND
Date of Loss: November 04, 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