State Heroes
World War I
1918
Cook Clair Louis Bixby
Brainerd, MNWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company K, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: July 04, 1918 / Age: 24
Died in France, of pneumonia, on July 4, 1918.
Buried in France. Remains returned to U. S. on Oct. 26, 1920, and buried at Brainerd, Minn.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Lt. Edgar A. Fisher
Valley City, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 38th Infantry
Date of Loss: July 01, 1918 / Age: 28
Drowned in Marne River on July 1, 1918, while in command of a detail to capture prisoners across the river.
1918
Frederick Jonas Renn
Osakis, MNWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company E, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: June 29, 1918 / Age: 28
Killed in action on June 29, 1918.
Buried in France. Reburied at Osakis, Minn.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Thomas Frederick McCarthy
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company F, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: June 29, 1918 / Age: 21
Killed in action, June 29, 1918.
Buried in Arlington Cemetery, Virginia.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND under Cass county.
1918
Wilford Degree
Stewart, MNWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company A, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: June 28, 1918 / Age: 19
Died on June 28, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Remains returned to U. S. on March 28, 1921, and buried in St. Boniface Cemetery, Stewart, Minn.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Victor Edward Bogert
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 54th Battalion, Canadian Infantry
Date of Loss: June 27, 1918 / Age: 21
Died in France on June 27, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Information found in Volume 1, page 325 of the Official Roster of North Dakota Soldiers, Sailors and Marines.
1918
Austin Fortune
Wheaton, MNWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Medical Department
Date of Loss: June 27, 1918 / Age: 29
Died at Fort Riley, Kans., on June 27, 1918.
Buried at Wheaton, Minn.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Seaman Buel Mills Wetherbee
World War I
Branch of Service: Navy
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: USS New York
Date of Loss: June 25, 1918 / Age: 19
Died on USS New York at Scapa Flow, Orkney Islands, on June 25, 1918.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Pvt.1st Class John Lackie Robertson
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company H, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: June 24, 1918 / Age: 22
Died on June 24, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND under Stutsman county.
1918
Pvt. Roy Lawrence Horgan
Langdon, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Marines
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 66th Company, 5th Regiment
Date of Loss: June 22, 1918 / Age: 25
Died on June 22, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Burial, France. Reinterred in Calvary Cemetery, Langdon, N. Dak., Nov. 4, 1920.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Oliver Martin Biggs
Adrian, MIWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 4th Company, 1st Battalion, 163rd Depot Brigade
Date of Loss: June 21, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of pneumonia, on June 21, 1918, at Camp Dodge, Iowa.
Buried at Adrian, Mich.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
1918
Alfred J Lockman
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company I, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: June 20, 1918 / Age:
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Name included on the WWI Memorial at Richland County Court House.
1918
Pvt.1st Class Jay Rugg
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company K, 164th Infantry
Date of Loss: June 19, 1918 / Age: 23
Died, June 19, 1918,of wounds received in action.
Buried, Grave 6, Row 23, Block B, Somme American Cemetery, Bony, Aisne, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND under Burleigh county.
1918
Sargent Albert Franklin Nelson
Leonard, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: 164th Infantry Regiment, Americal Division
Date of Loss: June 19, 1918 / Age: 27
Killed in Action on July 19, 1918. Buried in Cemetery C-39, Located in the Commune of Courmelles, Aisne; re-buried at Leonard, Richland County, North Dakota.
1918
Pvt. Harry E. Lean Elk
Porcupine, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company No. 2, 138th Infantry
Date of Loss: June 17, 1918 / Age: 23
Died of broncho pneumonia in England on June 17, 1918.
Buried in England. Reburied in the Porcupine Cemetery, Sioux county, N. Dak., on Sept. 25, 1920.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.