State Heroes

John A. Smestad

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery D, 40th Field Artillery

Date of Loss: October 17, 1918 / Age: 30

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 17, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 4, page 2996 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

George Texel

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 17, 1918 / Age: 22

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 17, 1918, at Camp Funston, Kans.

Buried, Ross, N. Dak.

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

Byron H. West

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 15th Service Company, Signal Corps, Casual Detachment

Date of Loss: October 17, 1918 / Age: 20

Died of pneumonia, on Oct. 17, 1918.

Remains returned to U. S. Sept. 3, 1920, and buried in Grave 432, National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.

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

Archie C. Fortin

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery D, 40th Field Artillery

Date of Loss: October 17, 1918 / Age: 29

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 17, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 2, page 955 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Gilbert Oli Myrvik

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 17, 1918 / Age: 23

Died of pneumonia, on Oct. 17, 1918.

Buried in Grave 23, Row 46, Block D, Argonne-American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Walter Gustav Daschner

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery D, 40th Field Artillery

Date of Loss: October 17, 1918 / Age: 22

Died of pneumonia, at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 17, 1918.

Buried at Hunter, N. Dak.

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

Fremont Wesley Rice

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 17, 1918 / Age: 22

Died of pneumonia, Oct. 17, 1918.

Remains returned to U. S. Aug. 30, 1920, and buried in Grave 348, National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.

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

Pvt. Edwin Jacob Christensen

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

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

Date of Loss: October 16, 1918 / Age: 22

Died of pneumonia, on Oct. 16, 1918.

Remains returned to U. S. Oct. 31, 1921, and buried in Grave 3809, European Section, National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.

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

Arthur Alfred Lindberg

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 338th Machine Gun Battalion

Date of Loss: October 16, 1918 / Age: 25

Died of pneumonia at La Grande, France, on Oct. 16, 1918.

Buried, Chantville, France; reburied at Grand Forks, N. Dak.

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

Ralph Ellis Olinger

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 313th Military Police

Date of Loss: October 16, 1918 / Age: 25

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 16, 1918.

Remains returned to U. S. on June 6, 1921, and buried in Erie Cemetery, Erie, Ill.

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

Cpl. Joseph Wilbur Hemrick

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery A, 40th Field Artillery

Date of Loss: October 16, 1918 / Age: 27

Died of pneumonia at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 16, 1918.

Buried at Volga, S. Dak.

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

Gustave John Pelvit

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company G, 305th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 16, 1918 / Age: 24

Died on Oct. 16, 1918, of wounds received in action.

Buried in France; remains returned to U. S. on July 25, 1921, and buried in Riverside Cemetery, Breckenridge, Minn.

Mess Sgt. Don Alfred Whitmore

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 348th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 16, 1918 / Age: 28

Died of influenza on Oct. 16, 1918.

Buried in American Cemetery No. 25, in Grave No. 336, Section B, at Galence, France.