State Heroes
World War I
Jerald F. Fairchild
Battle Creek, MIWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company M, 40th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 20, 1918 / Age: 32
Died at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 20, 1918.
Buried at Battle Creek, Mich.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Oscar Sime
Crary, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Machine Gun Company, 327th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 20, 1918 / Age: 24
Died on Oct. 20, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Remains returned to U. S. May 31, 1921, and buried at Crary, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Pvt. Gunder Aslakson
Webster, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company I, 352nd Infantry
Date of Loss: October 20, 1918 / Age: 28
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 20, 1918.
Buried in French Military Cemetery, Trauack (Alsace). Remains returned to U. S. on Oct. 1, 1921, and buried at Webster, N. Dak.
Wagoner Ole Edward Hedahl
Mercer, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 113th Sanitary Trains, 38th Division
Date of Loss: October 20, 1918 / Age: 28
Died of pneumonia at Stockport, England, on Oct. 20, 1918.
Buried, Grave 3, Row 11, Block D, Brookwood American Cemetery, Brookwood, England.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Manley Marriott
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company I, 352nd Infantry
Date of Loss: October 20, 1918 / Age: 21
Died of influenza on Oct. 20, 1918.
Buried, Grave 5, Row 5, Block F, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
John A. Trovick
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 4th Company, Ordnance Replacement Battalion, 2nd Regiment, Ordnance Training Camp
Date of Loss: October 20, 1918 / Age: 28
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 20, 1918.
Remains returned to U. S. on July 14, 1920, and buried in Grave 297, National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Pvt.1st Class Hans Albert Andersen
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 327th Infantry Regiment, 82nd Division
Date of Loss: October 20, 1918 / Age: 23
Died on Oct. 20, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Buried, Grave 9, Row 5, Block A, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Stanley Ostrowski
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 7th Machine Gun Battalion
Date of Loss: October 20, 1918 / Age: 22
Killed in action on Oct. 20, 1918.
Buried in Grave 31, 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.
John W. Lucas
Parkston, SDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Supply Company, 40th Field Artillery
Date of Loss: October 20, 1918 / Age: 26
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 20, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 3, page 1947 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
Gunner's Mate 3c Harold Clark Potter
World War I
Branch of Service: Navy
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Naval Hospital, Annapolis, Md.
Date of Loss: October 19, 1918 / Age: 24
Died at Naval Hospital, Annapolis, Md., on Oct. 19, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Maj. Frank Leland Shuman
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 309th Field Signal Battalion, Company B
Date of Loss: October 19, 1918 / Age: 38
Died at Camp Hospital No. 54, France, Oct. 19, 1918.
Buried Oct. 20, 1918, Cemetery No. 87, Grave 793, Perijuex, Dordogne, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Ralph McGarvey
Bismarck, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 104th Engineers
Date of Loss: October 19, 1918 / Age: 19
Died on Oct. 19, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Buried in French Cemetery. Re-buried at Bismarck, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
WWI Student Army Training Corps
Private Elmer Ben Winters
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Student Army Training Corps UND Grand Forks ND
Date of Loss: October 20, 1918 / Age: 26
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
Private Fortune Peter Catellier
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Student Army Training Corps UND Grand Forks ND
Date of Loss: October 19, 1918 / Age: 22
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
Private Sydney Edgar Kraabel
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Student Army Training Corps UND Grand Forks ND
Date of Loss: October 19, 1918 / Age: 18
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