State Heroes
World War I
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Arthur Julius Nelson
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 34th Company, 9th Training Battalion, 161st Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 08, 1918 / Age: 25
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 8, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 3, page 2282 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
George Washington Kimbell
Buffalo, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 163rd Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 08, 1918 / Age: 26
Died of broncho pneumonia, at Camp Dodge Iowa, on Oct. 8, 1918.
Buried at Buffalo, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
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Pvt. James O. Hanson
Kathryn, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 339th Machine Gun Battalion, 88th Division
Date of Loss: October 08, 1918 / Age: 22
Died of pneumonia at Hericourt, France, on Oct. 8, 1918.
Buried, Grave 39, Row 24, Block E, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
William John Hartman
York, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 36th Training Company, 161st Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 08, 1918 / Age: 21
Died at Camp Grant, Ill., on Oct. 8, 1918, of influenza.
Buried, Hill Cemetery, York, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
William Timm
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 53rd Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 08, 1918 / Age: 25
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 8, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 4, page 3251 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
William H. Cameron
Glasston, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company I, 77th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 08, 1918 / Age: 26
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 8, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 1, page 484 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
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Bert M. Johnson
Penn, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company I, 308th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 08, 1918 / Age: 25
Killed in action, at Argonne Forest on Oct. 8, 1918.
Buried in Grave 3, Section 94, Plot No. 1, Argonne-American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
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Pvt. Orville LeRoy Knoph
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 08, 1918 / Age: 17
Killed in action, Oct. 8, 1918.
Buried in Grave No. 10, Row 28, Block G, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Fred Rott
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company G, 149th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 08, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 8, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 4, page 2767 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
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Cpl. Axel Herman Leander
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 08, 1918 / Age: 23
Killed in action on Oct. 8, 1918.
Buried in Grave 31, Row 4, Block E, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
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Pvt. Cecil Frederick Cooke
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 18th Infantry Regiment, 1st Division
Date of Loss: October 08, 1918 / Age: 26
Died on Oct. 8, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Buried, Grave 2, Row 17, Block H, Meuse Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
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Henry Leonard Olson
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 313th Engineers
Date of Loss: October 08, 1918 / Age: 22
Died of pneumonia at Herricourt, France, on Oct. 8, 1918.
Buried, Grave 28, Row 3, Block F, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Olaf Dybdal
McLeod, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company K, 139th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 07, 1918 / Age: 28
Died, Oct. 7, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Buried, Grave 157, Row 12, Block 4, Argonne-American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France. Reburied, McLeod, N. Dak.
James Henry Priest
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company G, 5th Limited Service Training Regiment
Date of Loss: October 07, 1918 / Age: 30
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 7, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 3, page 2609 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
Clyde Verdi Claflin
World War I
Branch of Service: Navy
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Dunwoody Naval Training Institute
Date of Loss: October 07, 1918 / Age: 20
Died at Minneapolis, Minn., on Oct. 7, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 1, page 562 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.