State Heroes
World War I
Emil J. Novotny
Pisek, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters Company, 40th Field Artillery
Date of Loss: October 15, 1918 / Age: 24
Died of pneumonia at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 15, 1918.
Buried at Pisek, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Helmer Cornelius Pederson
Flora, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 22nd Company, 6th Battalion, 160th Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 15, 1918 / Age: 22
Died of broncho pneumonia at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 15, 1918.
Buried at Flora, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Pvt. Christ Anderson
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 326th Infantry Regiment, 82nd Division
Date of Loss: October 15, 1918 / Age: 26
Killed in action on Oct. 15, 1918.
Buried, Grave 33, Row 8, Block B, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Pvt. Charles Arthur Hoff
Fort Ransom, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 128th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 15, 1918 / Age: 24
Killed in action on Oct. 15, 1918.
Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on Aug. 8, 1921, and buried at Fort Ransom, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Cpl. Arthur Beemer Stewart
Minneapolis, MNWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters Company, 350th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 15, 1918 / Age: 25
Died of pneumonia at Herricourt, France, on Oct. 15, 1918.
Buried, Grave 32, Row 28, Block D, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Pvt. Arthur N. Gorder
Carbury, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 125th Field Artillery Regiment, 34th Division
Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of pneumonia at Liverpool, England, on Oct. 14, 1918.
Buried, Grave 6, Row 2, Block D, Brookwood American Cemetery, Brookwood, England.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Stephen Swanson
Valley City, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 160th Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of broncho pneumonia, at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 14, 1918.
Buried at Valley City, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND as Stephan Swanson.
Christ G. Roth
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company No. 10, 3rd Battalion, 163rd Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 22
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 14, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 4, page 2765 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
Pvt.1st Class Arthur C. Miller
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters Company, 58th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 25
Died on Oct. 14, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Remains returned to England, and consigned to Stanley R. Miller, 5 Archer St., Kensington, (London S. W. 11), England. (Place of burial unknown).
Fred Schmuhl
Jamestown, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 10th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 31
Died of pneumonia, at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 14, 1918.
Buried at Jamestown, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1st Lt. Lewis Marcus Thune
South Superior, WIWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 25
Killed in action, Oct. 14, 1918.
Buried, Grave 3, Row 43, Block B, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Pvt. Ole Iverson
Carson, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 128th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 28
Died on Oct. 14, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Remains returned to U. S. Sept. 26, 1921, and buried at Carson, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
John Louis Scheidt
Red Oak, IAWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 60th Balloon Company
Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 31
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 14, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 4, page 2845 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
Pvt. Einer Jensen
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 7th Engineer Regiment, 5th Division
Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 30
Killed in action on Oct. 14, 1918.
Buried, Grave 25, Row 5, Block E, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
WWI Student Army Training Corps
Private Warren Arthur Parker
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Student Army Training Corps UND Grand Forks ND
Date of Loss: October 14, 1918 / Age: 29
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