State Heroes

Gunner's Mate 3c Harold Clark Potter

World War I (WWI)

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.

Arthur Walter Peterson

Lucy Township, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 78th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 18, 1918 / Age: 23

Died of pneumonia, on Oct. 18, 1918, at Camp Custer, Mich.

Buried, Lucy Township, Burke county, N. Dak.

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

Arthur Edwin Erickson

Bowman, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 40th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 18, 1918 / Age: 22

Died of pneumonia at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 18, 1918.

Buried at Bowman, N. Dak.

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

Alfred Melvin Peterson

Ambrose, ND

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, Depot Battalion No. 1

Date of Loss: October 18, 1918 / Age: 26

Died of pneumonia, at Camp Dodge, Iowa, on Oct. 18, 1918.

Buried at Ambrose, N. Dak.

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

Pvt. Martin Christianson

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company M, 349th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 18, 1918 / Age: 29

Died of pneumonia, on Oct. 18, 1918.

Buried, Grave 35, Row 26, Block E, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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

Christ Sorlee

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Supply Company, 78th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 18, 1918 / Age: 26

Died of pneumonia at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 18, 1918.

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

Gilford Oliver Olson

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 22nd Company, 6th Battalion, 160th Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: October 18, 1918 / Age: 21

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 18, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 3, page 2415 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Roy Alfred Dingman

Oelwein, IA

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Troop E, 7th Cavalry, Fort Bliss, Texas

Date of Loss: October 18, 1918 / Age: 21

Died of pneumonia at Fort Bliss, Texas, on Oct. 18, 1918.

Buried at Oelwein, Iowa.

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

Michael Holsbrekken

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 20th Battalion, US Guards

Date of Loss: October 18, 1918 / Age: 25

Died on Oct. 18, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 2, page 1400 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Cpl. William F. Thiele

Chicago, IL

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 11th Company, 3rd Battalion, 160th Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: October 18, 1918 / Age: 31

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 18, 1918.

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

Information found in Volume 4, page 3205 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

Byron H. West

World War I (WWI)

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 (WWI)

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.

John A. Smestad

Hatton, ND

World War I (WWI)

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.

Walter Gustav Daschner

Hunter, ND

World War I (WWI)

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.

Private Friedrich F. Marzolf

World War I (WWI)

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Student Army Training Corps UND Grand Forks ND

Date of Loss: October 18, 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

Buried at Kramer Cemetery, Bottineau County, North Dakota.