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.

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.

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.

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.

Earl Alfred Smith

World 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.

John A. Winden

World 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.

Seaman 2c Earl Ray Lewis

World 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.

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.

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

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

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