State Heroes
World War I
Pvt.1st Class Earl LeRoy Cherry
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 305th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 03, 1918 / Age: 24
Killed in action on Oct. 3, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 1, page 537 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
![Charlie Redman Schoonover photo](/sites/www/files/styles/image_original/public/documents/person/logo_ww1_16.jpg?itok=rXsKDmeP&cb=55f30727&cb=55f30727)
Charlie Redman Schoonover
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 14th Company, Motor Truck Division, Machine Gun Training Center
Date of Loss: October 03, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of influenza on Oct. 3, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 4, page 2872 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
Jacob Klein
Dickinson, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 78th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 03, 1918 / Age: 24
Died of broncho penumonia, at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 3, 1918.
Buried at Dickinson, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
![Edward Keller photo](/sites/www/files/styles/image_original/public/documents/person/Aisne-Marne%2520American%2520Cemetery.jpg?itok=pgV4xqix&cb=ef3f2968&cb=ef3f2968)
Pvt. Edward Keller
Fremont, SDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 313th Ammunition Trains, 88th Division
Date of Loss: October 03, 1918 / Age: 28
Died of pneumonia, on Oct. 3, 1918.
Buried, Grave 37, Row 8, Block B, Aisne-Marne American Cemetery, Belleau, Aisne, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Pvt. Benjamin Franklin Clark
Brainerd, MNWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Machine Gun Company, 23rd Infantry
Date of Loss: October 03, 1918 / Age: 30
Killed in action on Oct. 3, 1918.
Remains returned to U. S., Sept. 19, 1921, and buried at Brainerd, Minn.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
August Toreson
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 161st Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 03, 1918 / Age: 22
Died on Oct. 3, 1918, of pneumonia.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 4, page 3265 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
![Ermiston Oscar Douglas photo](/sites/www/files/styles/image_original/public/documents/person/logo_ww1_4.jpg?itok=5b-yDlau&cb=e4c61da0&cb=e4c61da0)
Ermiston Oscar Douglas
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 34th Company, 161st Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 03, 1918 / Age: 21
Died of pneumonia, at Camp Grant, Ill., on Oct. 3, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
![David Knittel photo](/sites/www/files/styles/image_original/public/documents/person/Meuse-Argonne%2520American%2520Cemetery.jpg?itok=ZgPYJNqn&cb=345f3a8f&cb=345f3a8f)
Pvt. David Knittel
Napolean, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 140th Infantry Regiment, 35th Division
Date of Loss: October 02, 1918 / Age: 24
Died in Field Hospital, Buzancy, Germany, on Oct. 2, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Buried, Grave 17, Row 11, Block E, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
![George Thomas Taylor photo](/sites/www/files/styles/image_original/public/documents/person/Meuse-Argonne%2520American%2520Cemetery.jpg?itok=ZgPYJNqn&cb=345f3a8f&cb=345f3a8f)
George Thomas Taylor
Rapid City, SDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company K, 138th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 02, 1918 / Age: 25
Killed in action on Oct. 2, 1918.
Buried, Grave 31, Row 12, Block B, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
![Herman Nicolay Skjerseth photo](/sites/www/files/styles/image_original/public/documents/person/Meuse-Argonne%2520American%2520Cemetery.jpg?itok=ZgPYJNqn&cb=345f3a8f&cb=345f3a8f)
Herman Nicolay Skjerseth
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 138th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 02, 1918 / Age: 31
Killed in action, on Oct. 2, 1918, at Commune of Chatel-Chehery, Dept. Ardennes.
Buried, Grave 9, Row 26, Block D, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
James A. Palmer
Newlon, MTWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Fort Caswell September Automatic Replacement Draft, Company No. 2
Date of Loss: October 02, 1918 / Age: 37
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 2, 1918, at Camp Merritt, N. J.
Buried, Newlon, Mont.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Alvin O. Kvenshagen
Northwood, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 23rd Infantry
Date of Loss: October 02, 1918 / Age: 22
Killed in action, at Mont Blanc Ridge, Champagne Sector, on Oct. 2, 1918.
August Schnell
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 137th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 02, 1918 / Age: 30
Killed in action on Oct. 2, 1918.
Grave unlocated.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
![Frederick L. Ingvorsen photo](/sites/www/files/styles/image_original/public/documents/person/Pvt.%2520Oscar%2520Finkenhagen.jpg?itok=dX5w5qbl&cb=edac374d&cb=edac374d)
Pvt.1st Class Frederik Laurids Ingvorsen
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 357th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 02, 1918 / Age: 28
Killed in action on Oct. 2, 1918.
Buried, Tine Grove, Meurthe-et-Moselle, France. Remains returned to Denmark and consigned to Mr. Hans Ingvorsen, Dalby Taagerup pe. Thureby, Sjalland, Denmark.