State Heroes

Olai Rue

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company M, 138th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 02, 1918 / Age: 24

Died on Oct. 2, 1918, of wounds received in action.

Buried, Grave 2, Row 27, Block F, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

Forrest Eugene Williams

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 34th Company, 161st Depot Brigade

Date of Loss: October 02, 1918 / Age: 23

Died of pneumonia on Oct. 2, 1918.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

Information found in Volume 4, page 3477 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.

George Thomas Taylor

World 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

World 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.

Pvt. Iver Halvorson

Cooperstown

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 140th Infantry Regiment, 35th Division

Date of Loss: October 02, 1918 / Age: 24

Killed in action, on Oct. 2, 1918.

Buried, Grave 37, Row 16, Block C, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

James A. Palmer

World 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.

Pvt. Roland Whitie Jones

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 352nd Infantry Regiment, 88th Division

Date of Loss: October 02, 1918 / Age: 27

Died of pneumonia, on Oct. 2, 1918.

Buried in Grave 2, Row 9, Block F, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

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.

Cpl. Virgil Raymond Erickson

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 164th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 02, 1918 / Age: 25

Killed in action on Oct. 2, 1918.

Buried in France. Reburied in Kato township, Ramsey county, N. Dak.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.

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.

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.

Pvt. Bert Melvin Fossen

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 138th Infantry Regiment, 35th Division

Date of Loss: October 02, 1918 / Age: 26

Died in Field Hospital at Buzancy, Germany, on Oct. 2, 1918, of wounds received in action.

Buried, Grave 34, Row 39, Block G, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.

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.

2nd Lt. Lester Mills Smith

World 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.

Cook Frank Coleman

World War I

Branch of Service: Army

Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 58th Infantry

Date of Loss: October 02, 1918 / Age: 24

Killed in action on Oct. 2, 1918.

Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on Oct. 18, 1921, and buried at Lancaster, Minn.

Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.