State Heroes
World War I
Cpl. Jacob Fred Ouhl
Cavalier, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 39th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 13, 1918 / Age: 22
Killed in action, Oct. 13, 1918, Argonne Forest.
Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on Sept. 12, 1921, and buried at Cavalier, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Pvt. Roy McKinley Basford
Troy, SDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 128th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 13, 1918 / Age: 21
Killed in action in battle of Argonne, on Oct. 13, 1918.
Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on Sept. 3, 1921, and buried in Grave 2736, European Section, Arlington National Cemetery, Va.
Martin Thompson
Wyndmere, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 11th Company, 3rd Battalion, 160th Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 13, 1918 / Age: 24
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 13, 1918, at Camp Custer, Mich.
Buried Wyndmere, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Holger Tall
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, Development Battalion No. 1
Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 27
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 12, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 4, page 3183 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
Clarence Grina
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company F, 11th Depot Battalion, Signal Corps
Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 24
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 12, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 2, page 1121 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1st Lt. Samuel Lee Avis
Jamestown, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Engineers
Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 28
Died at Camp Humphreys, Va., of influenza and pneumonia, on Oct. 12, 1918.
Place of burial, Jamestown, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Albert Olson
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 128th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 24
Killed in action on Oct. 12, 1918.
Buried in Grave 28, Row 22, Block D, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Horace Mann Jones Jr.
Fargo, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Medical Department
Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 18
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 12, 1918.
Buried at Fargo, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Sigurjon Benedict Sigfusson
Mountain, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery C, 40th Field Artillery
Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 25
Died of broncho pneumonia, at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 12, 1918.
Buried at Mountain, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND as Sugurjon Sigfusson.
Knute Holberg
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 34th Company, 161st Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 27
Died of influenza, on Oct. 12, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 2, page 1387 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
Paul John Soberg
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 38th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 24
Killed in action on Oct. 12, 1918.
Buried, Grave 30, Row 7, Block C, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Sam Alfred Haugstad
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery F, 2nd Field Artillery
Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 31
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 12, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 2, page 1279 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
Cpl. Bernhard Nelson
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 61st Infantry
Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 23
Killed in action on Oct. 12, 1918.
Buried, Grave 36, Row 9, Block E, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Harry Eugene Lahman
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 338th Machine Gun Battalion
Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 24
Killed in action on Oct. 12, 1918.
Buried in Grave 35, Row 23, Block E, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Clarence Henry Fjerstad
Cannon Falls, MNWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company G, 118th Engineers
Date of Loss: October 12, 1918 / Age: 26
Died of pneumonia, at Bellecreek, Minn., on Oct. 12, 1918.
Buried at Cannon Falls, Minn.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND under Eddy county.