State Heroes
World War I
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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.
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.
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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.
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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.
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.
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Pvt. Jacob Miller Geyer
Sheyenne, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 112th Infantry Regiment, 28th Division
Date of Loss: October 02, 1918 / Age: 29
Killed in action on Oct. 2, 1918.
Buried, in Grave 12, Row 3, 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. Ross E. French
Detroit, ILWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 02, 1918 / Age: 26
Died on Oct. 2, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Buried, Grave 4, Row 22, Block B, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
2nd Lt. Lester Mills Smith
Grand Forks, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Battery C, 107th Field Artillery
Date of Loss: October 02, 1918 / Age: 26
Killed in action on Oct. 2, 1918.
Remains returned to U. S. Sept. 6, 1921, and buried in Memorial Park Cemetery, Grand Forks, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Pvt. John Van Lishout
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company No. 33, 9th Battalion, 153rd Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 02, 1918 / Age: 29
Died on Oct. 2, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 4, page 3327 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
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John M. Larson
Houston, MNWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company K, 140th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 01, 1918 / Age: 25
Killed in action on Oct. 1, 1918.
Buried, Grave 22, Row 43, 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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Edward Philip O'Malley
Woodland, WIWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 128th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 01, 1918 / Age: 29
Killed in action on Oct. 1, 1918.
Buried in Grave 37, 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.
Arthur C. Larson
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company K, 140th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 01, 1918 / Age: 24
Killed in action at Exermont, France, on Oct. 1, 1918.
Remains returned to U. S. on July 28, 1921, and buried in Grave 2444, European Section, National Cemetery, Arlington, Va.
Sgt. Edwin Oscar Estby
Falsen, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Headquarters Company, 78th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 01, 1918 / Age: 29
Died of pneumonia at Camp Custer, Mich., on Oct. 1, 1918.
Buried at Falsen, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.