State Heroes
World War I
Earl Ezra McLain
Valley City, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 53rd Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 05, 1918 / Age: 24
Died of influenza on Oct. 5, 1918, at Camp Hancock, Ga.
Buried, Valley City, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Pvt. William V. Donnelly
Benson, MNWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company F, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 05, 1918 / Age: 27
Killed in action on Oct. 5, 1918.
Buried, Grave 28, Row 39, Block E, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Curtis Allison
Golden Valley, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 33rd Company, 161st Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 05, 1918 / Age: 21
Died of pneumonia at Camp Grant, Ill., on Oct. 5, 1918.
Buried, Golden Valley, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
John Nelson Stearns
Crystal, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 14th Company, Military Truck Division, Machine Gun Training Center
Date of Loss: October 05, 1918 / Age: 31
Died of influenza on Oct. 5, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 4, page 3080 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
Herman Schmidt
Enloe, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company G, 5th Limited Service Regiment, 2nd Battalion, 161st Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 05, 1918 / Age: 27
Died of pneunomia on Oct. 5, 1918 at Camp Grant, Ill.
Buried, Enloe, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Arne Pederson
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 34th Company, 161st Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 05, 1918 / Age: 28
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 5, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 3, page 2510 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
Reuben Alfred Hartman
Turtle Lake, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 161st Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 05, 1918 / Age: 22
Died of influenza at Camp Hancock, Ga., on Oct. 5, 1918.
Buried, Turtle Lake, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Cpl. Bolek Gosecky
Bowbells, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 05, 1918 / Age: 31
Killed in action on Oct. 5, 1918.
Buried, Grave 38, Row 36, Block H, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Carl Fristad
Harmon, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company G, 5th Training Regiment, 161st Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 05, 1918 / Age: 24
Died of pneumonia at Camp Grant, Ill., on Oct. 5, 1918.
Buried at Harmon, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Pvt. Frank C. Day
Price, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company F, 137th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 05, 1918 / Age: 22
Died on Oct. 5, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Buried, French Military Cemetery, Deauxnouds, Meuse. Remains returned to U. S. on July 25, 1921, and buried at Sanger, N. Dak.
Michael Martin
Glen Ullin, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 161st Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 05, 1918 / Age: 24
Died of pneumonia, at Camp Grant, Ill., on Oct. 5, 1918.
Buried at Glen Ullin, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND as Mike Martin.
Albert Wermedahl
Hatton, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company G, 5th Limited Service Regiment, Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: October 05, 1918 / Age: 27
Died of pneumonia on Oct. 5, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 4, page 3429 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
Pvt. Joseph Murray
Bismarck, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Central Officers Training School
Date of Loss: October 05, 1918 / Age: 28
Died of pneumonia, on Oct. 5, 1918.
Buried at Bismarck, N. Dak.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
F3 Earl Dorencourt Young
World War I
Branch of Service: Navy
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: USS Comfort
Date of Loss: October 05, 1918 / Age: 23
Died on USS Comfort, at New York, N. Y., on Oct. 5, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Sgt. Russell E. Davis
Grafton, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company C, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 05, 1918 / Age: 19
Died of diphtheria at Base Hospital No. 66, Neufchateau, France, on Oct. 5, 1918.
Buried at Neufchateau, France. Remains returned to U. S. on Dec. 16, 1921, and consigned to Mirr M. Shannon, Grafton, N. Dak. (place of burial not given).