State Heroes
World War I
Aron D. Svahn
Lawton, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery E, 42nd Field Artillery
Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 25
Died at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 11, 1918, of pneumonia.
Buried, Lawton, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Pvt. John Edgar Johnson
Homestead, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Machine Gun Company, 127th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 22
Died of pneumonia, on Oct. 11, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 2, page 1562 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
Andrew Clauson
Harlow, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, Development Battalion No. 1, 163rd Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 28
Died of pneumonia at Camp Dodge, Iowa, on Oct. 11, 1918.
Buried at Harlow, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Name included in the "WWI Centenial" book. Benson County.
Pvt. Clem Kreitel
Napoleon, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 128th Infantry Regiment, 32nd Division
Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 22
Killed in action on Oct. 11, 1918.
Buried in Grave 1, Row 12, Block C, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
George W. C. Horn
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company F, 14th Ammunition Train
Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 28
Died of pneumonia, on Oct. 11, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 2, page 1415 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
Aloysius Georges Schwan
Langdon, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, 2nd Training Battalion, Signal Corps
Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 22
Died of influenza at Fort Leavenworth, Kans., on Oct. 11, 1918.
Buried, Langdon, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Ernest William Cardiff
Hillsboro, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 22nd Company, 6th Battalion, 160th Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 25
Died of pneumonia, at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 11, 1918.
Buried at Hillsboro, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Pvt.1st Class Theodore Bernhard Oium
Towner, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 14th Ammunition Train
Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 30
Died of pneumonia at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 11, 1918.
Buried at Towner, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Joseph G. Kachel
Fried, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 22nd Company, 6th Battalion, 160th Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 28
Died of pneumonia, at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 11, 1918.
Buried at Fried, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
CQM Pomeroy Smith
World War I
Branch of Service: Navy
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Receiving Ship, Pensacola, Fla.
Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 27
Died on Receiving Ship, Pensacola, Fla., on Oct. 11, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Freddie Roy
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 34th Company, 161st Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 21
Died of pneumonia at Camp Grant, Ill., on Oct. 11, 1918.
Buried at Osnabrock, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Leonard Carson House
Garrison, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company B, Military Police, 14th Division
Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 27
Died of pneumonia, on Oct. 11, 1918, at Camp Custer, Mich.
Burial, Garrison, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Andor Evanson
Pelican Rapids, MNWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 36th Training Company, 161st Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 22
Died of pneumonia, on Oct. 11, 1918.
Buried, Pelican Rapids, Minn.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Fred Meidinger
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, Development Battalion No. 1
Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 11, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 3, page 2127 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
Adolph R. Pechlat
Wahpeton, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery B 41st Field Artillery
Date of Loss: October 11, 1918 / Age: 25
Died of Broncho pneumonia at Camp Custer Michigan on October 11, 1918. Buried at St. Joseph's Cemetery, Brushvale, Minnesota.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.