State Heroes
World War I
Cook Frank Coleman
Lancaster, MNWorld 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Christ Sortland
World War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company F, 138th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 01, 1918 / Age: 24
Killed in action on Oct. 1, 1918.
Buried, Grave 32, Section 18, Block 1, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France. Remains returned to Norway, and consigned to Ole John Sortland, Bergen, Norway.
Maurice D. Rowe
Hamilton, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 137th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 01, 1918 / Age: 29
Killed in action on Oct. 1, 1918.
Buried, Grave 27, Row 19, Block B, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.
Pvt. Eugene P. Brasseur
Thorne, NDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company D, 138th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 01, 1918 / Age: 23
Died in Base Hospital No. 66, at Neufchateau, France, on Oct. 1, 1918, of wounds received in action.
Richard Mettler
Freeman, SDWorld War I
Branch of Service: Army
Company / Ship / Flight or equivalent: Company M, 306th Infantry
Date of Loss: October 01, 1918 / Age: 25
Killed in action on Oct. 1, 1918.
Buried in Grave 33, Row 42, Block G, Meuse-Argonne American Cemetery, Romagne-sous-Montfaucon, Meuse, France.
Name included on the All Veterans Memorial at State Capitol in Bismarck ND.