Virginia, Lexington
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Men of the Virginia Military Institute
who died in the Armed Services
in World War II 1941 – 1946
Reid Stanley Aaron Va. 1940 • Hawes Netherlands Adams N.J. 1943 • James Rivers Adams Va. 1931 • George David Akers Va. 1948 – A • James Granville Allen, Jr. Tenn. 1944 • James Pleasant Allen, Jr. Ga. 1933 • Marvin Judson Anderson, Jr. Va. 1943 • Charles Castro Arms N.C. 1939 • Charles Harwood Augustine Va. 1945 • John Richard Banks N.J. 1942 • Joseph X. Bell Va. 1938 • Belton Allan Bennett, Jr. S.C. 1934 • Beverly Sydnor Blackburn Va. 1943 • Neville Dean Blakemore Va. 1934 • Lawrence Crain Blanchard, Jr. La. 1930 • Robert Woodfin Boggess, Jr. Texas 1940 • Richard Booth, Jr. Va. 1938 • Paul Lambert Borden, Jr. N.C. 1938 • Jay Killian Bowman, Jr. Va. 1945 • Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. Ky. 1906 • George Thompson Burdeau, Jr. Mo. 1911 • John Ryd Bush Ga. 1946 • Charles Augustus Butler, Jr. 1941 • Cornelius Zane Bryd Va. 1926 • William Curtis Campbell, Jr. Va. 1946 • John Randolph Tucker Carmichael Ky. 1931 • Whitman Stratton Carpenter N.Y. 1943 • Bernard Pitzer Carter, Jr. Va. 1939 • Louis Guion Chadwick Va. 1930 • Philip Godfrey Chapman Texas 1940 • John Hamilton Christian, Jr. W.Va. 1944 • Douglas Maryon Clarke Pa. 1930 • Cecil Powell Coburn N.C. 1944 • Franklin Watts Coffman Va. 1945 • William Winston Coleman Va. 1939 • Freeling Tufts Colt Pa. 1938 • Joseph Bennett Coopwood Texas 1927 • Hester Clark Cothron Va. 1937 • Willis Jefferson Dance, Jr. Va. 1941 • Alfred Carlyle Darden, Jr. 1937 • William Howard Union Darden Va. 1940 • Edgar Marshall Dickerson D.C. 1930 • Richard Parada Dillon Va. 1945 • Gerald R. Dopkin N.J. 1947 – D • Kenna Granville Eastham Va. 1910 • William Watson Emory Md. 1935 • Arnold Hooper Ewell Va. 1946 • Andre Poitevin Fallwell Va. 1945 • Charles James Faulkner, IV Va. 1940 • Joseph Henry Fleming, Jr. Tenn. 1939 • Charles Benedict Fodale Mass. 1940 • Walter Alexander Ford, Jr. N.C. 1931 • Thomas Pope Fullilove La. 1928 • Robert Ostwald Garrett, Jr. Va. 1931 • James Clifton Gilliland Texas 1932 • Sidney Rogers Gittens, Jr. Pa. 1945 • Alfred Parker Goddin, Jr. Va. 1942 • Charles Henry Gompf Va. 1942 • Fleming Clark Goolsey Va. 1941 • Robert Lancaster Guy Va. 1942 • Frank Gilbredth Hamilton Va. 1945 • George Ben Johnston Handy Va. 1940 • Joseph D’Alton Harris Va 1940 • Seale Harris, Jr. Ala. 1923 • Charles Fauntleroy Harrison Va. 1931 • Charles Frederick Haupt N.Y. 1947 – A • Jesse Hartwell Heath, Jr. Va. 1938 • Louis Armistead Heindl, Jr. Va 1942 • Fred Bruce Hill Ky. 1941 • Frederick Allen Hippey Va. 1939 • Shirley Thomas Holland, Jr. Va. 1942 • Woodard Hoover Md. 1943 • Gilder Stansbury Horne, Jr. N.C. 1941 • Henry Clay Hudgins Va. 1932 • William Hervey Humlong, Jr. Mich. 1945 • Victor Hugo Idol, Jr. N.C. 1941 • John Kessler Jones, Jr. N.J. 1946 • James Nutty Jones Va. 1927 • Meriwether Jones Va. 1942 • Robert Emory Jones Va. 1945 • Thaddeus Wallace Jones, Jr. 1939 • Benjamin Rives Kearfott Va. 1943 • Charles Leslie Keerans, Jr. N.C. 1920 • William Parham Kevan, Jr. Va. 1939 • Philip Henry Killey W.Va. 1941 • Everett Glenn King Ga. 1942 • Rufus DeWitt King, Jr. Ga. 1936 • Stuart Waller King Va. 1919 • William Joseph Lang, Jr. Texas 1940 • Valentine Browne Lawlwss Va. 1932 • Robert Thornton Lemmon, Jr. Va. 1943“They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.”
( Second Marker : )Robert Augustus Lewis, Calif. 1942 • Lewis Archie Lillard, Va. 1942 • Jackson Sterling Littrell, N.Y. 1939 • Malcolm Blanchar MacKinnon, N.Y. 1940 • James Sinclair MacLean, Jr. Va. 1945 • Beriah Magoffin, III, Minn. 1936 • William Mahl, Jr., N.Y. 1945 • William Dow Markin, Ohio 1943 • Arthur Walter Marklis, Mass. 1932 • Richard Jaquelin Marshall, Jr., Va. 1944 • Walter Coleman Martin, Jr., Va. 1945 • Walter Norris Mason, Jr., Va. 1932 • George Alvin Massenburg, Jr., Va. 1942 • James Thomas Matthews, Va. 1947 – G • Nelson Eugene McCaa, Miss. 1940 • William Sayers McCauley, Va. 1941 • John Knudson McCullough, Ala. 1942 • John Joseph McEveety, N.Y. 1937 • Douglas Garvin McMillin, Tenn. 1940 • George Franklin Miller, Va. 1929 • Noel McHenry Moore, Jr., Ga. 1930 • Dan Joseph Morton, Ga. 1941 • Marcus Alfred Mullen, N.Y. 1936 • Charles Francis Nash, II, Va. 1941 • Alexander Caldwell Newton, Fla. 1931 • Robert Williamson Nix, III, Va. 1939 • David Ramsey Oakey, Va. 1942 • Leo Elmer Ofenstein, Md. 1937 • Thomas Ranson Opie, Va. 1940 • Addison Wilson Palmer, Jr., Fla. 1934 • George Smith Patton, Jr., Calif. 1907 Alexander Bruce Pendleton, Va. 1937 • George Booker Peters, Va. 1941 Samuel Duncan Puller, Va. 1922 • George Walter Renneman, N.Y. 1945 • John Marshall Ribble, Va. 1921 • William Thomas Semmes Roberts, Va. 1920 • Layne Rogers, Jr. Ill. 1945 • Edward Dunston Romm, Va. 1931 • William Val Sanford, Tenn. 1914 • Leonard Savitz, Pa. 1947 – A • Bailby Moses Sawyer, N.Y. 1927 • Ivanhoe Harrison Sclater, Jr. Mass. 1937 • James Fiske Searcy, Pa. 1941 • John Andrew Shanklin, Jr., W.Va. 1938 • Harold Carlock Sheffey, Va. 1937 • William Gray Shultz, Md. 1941 • Robert Luther Sibley, Jr. W.Va. 1938 • Manley Olin Simpson, Jr. Va. 1942 • Franklin Fletcher Smith, N.C. 1927 • Harry Lee Smith, Jr., Va. 1945 • James Alexander Smith, III, Va. 1940 • William Alexander Smith, Va. 1944 •Walter Stanley Smith, Jr., Pa. 1946 • Joseph Alfred Sosbee, Jr. Ark. 1941 • Augustus Rudd Spencer, Va. 1941 • George Hubert Steed, Jr., Va. 1941 • Virginius Rawls Stell, Jr., Va. 1944 • Joseph Warren Stirni, Va. 1931 • John Vandergrift Summerlin, Va. 1929 • Joseph Andrew Summers, Jr., Tenn. 1944 • Joseph Rodney Swetting, Jr., Pa. 1941 • Samuel Augustus Syme, D.C. 1921 • James Preston Taylor, Va. 1945 • Peyton Lisby Wade Thompson, Jr., Ga. 1943 • Edward Wood Thomson, Pa. 1919 • Paul Jones Thomson, Jr., Va. 1941 • Thomas Lee Thrasher, Jr., Va. 1941 • William Frederick Topham, Va. 1939 • Harold Willard Treakle, Va. 1945 • Norman Randolph Turpin, Va. 1942 • Richard William Twombly, Idaho 1944 • Maurice Linwood Tyler, Jr., Va. 1944 • William Peterkin Upshur, Va. 1902 • Carter Spottswood Vaden, Va. 1935 • Eugene Roane Venable, Va. 1934 • Sydney Archibald Vincent, Jr., Va. 1940 • Linwood Vinson, Jr., Va. 1940 • Robert Dade Wall, N.C. 1942 • David Garland Waller, Va. 1945 • Harvey Mitchell Walthall, Md. 1945 • Joseph Guthrie Ward, Va. 1917 • John James Ward, Jr., Va. 1934 • John Burroughs Warren, Jr., Texas 1933 • George Major White, N.C. 1939 • Walter Pleasants White, Va. 1945 • George Cooley Willcox, Mich. 1924 • William Robinson Williams, Va. 1925 • John David Wilson, Ky. 1939 • John Allison Woodall, Texas 1929 • Horatio Cornick Woodhouse, Jr., Va. 1936 •Edgar Mantlebert Young, Jr., Va. 1933 • Benjamin Allen Frye, Jr. Pa. 1945“They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.”
(War, World II) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.
Men of the Virginia Military Institutewho died in the Armed Services
in World War II 1941 – 1946
Reid Stanley Aaron Va. 1940 • Hawes Netherlands Adams N.J. 1943 • James Rivers Adams Va. 1931 • George David Akers Va. 1948 – A • James Granville Allen, Jr. Tenn. 1944 • James Pleasant Allen, Jr. Ga. 1933 • Marvin Judson Anderson, Jr. Va. 1943 • Charles Castro Arms N.C. 1939 • Charles Harwood Augustine Va. 1945 • John Richard Banks N.J. 1942 • Joseph X. Bell Va. 1938 • Belton Allan Bennett, Jr. S.C. 1934 • Beverly Sydnor Blackburn Va. 1943 • Neville Dean Blakemore Va. 1934 • Lawrence Crain Blanchard, Jr. La. 1930 • Robert Woodfin Boggess, Jr. Texas 1940 • Richard Booth, Jr. Va. 1938 • Paul Lambert Borden, Jr. N.C. 1938 • Jay Killian Bowman, Jr. Va. 1945 • Simon Bolivar Buckner, Jr. Ky. 1906 • George Thompson Burdeau, Jr. Mo. 1911 • John Ryd Bush Ga. 1946 • Charles Augustus Butler, Jr. 1941 • Cornelius Zane Bryd Va. 1926 • William Curtis Campbell, Jr. Va. 1946 • John Randolph Tucker Carmichael Ky. 1931 • Whitman Stratton Carpenter N.Y. 1943 • Bernard Pitzer Carter, Jr. Va. 1939 • Louis Guion Chadwick Va. 1930 • Philip Godfrey Chapman Texas 1940 • John Hamilton Christian, Jr. W.Va. 1944 • Douglas Maryon Clarke Pa. 1930 • Cecil Powell Coburn N.C. 1944 • Franklin Watts Coffman Va. 1945 • William Winston Coleman Va. 1939 • Freeling Tufts Colt Pa. 1938 • Joseph Bennett Coopwood Texas 1927 • Hester Clark Cothron Va. 1937 • Willis Jefferson Dance, Jr. Va. 1941 • Alfred Carlyle Darden, Jr. 1937 • William Howard Union Darden Va. 1940 • Edgar Marshall Dickerson D.C. 1930 • Richard Parada Dillon Va. 1945 • Gerald R. Dopkin N.J. 1947 – D • Kenna Granville Eastham Va. 1910 • William Watson Emory Md. 1935 • Arnold Hooper Ewell Va. 1946 • Andre Poitevin Fallwell Va. 1945 • Charles James Faulkner, IV Va. 1940 • Joseph Henry Fleming, Jr. Tenn. 1939 • Charles Benedict Fodale Mass. 1940 • Walter Alexander Ford, Jr. N.C. 1931 • Thomas Pope Fullilove La. 1928 • Robert Ostwald Garrett, Jr. Va. 1931 • James Clifton Gilliland Texas 1932 • Sidney Rogers Gittens, Jr. Pa. 1945 • Alfred Parker Goddin, Jr. Va. 1942 • Charles Henry Gompf Va. 1942 • Fleming Clark Goolsey Va. 1941 • Robert Lancaster Guy Va. 1942 • Frank Gilbredth Hamilton Va. 1945 • George Ben Johnston Handy Va. 1940 • Joseph D’Alton Harris Va 1940 • Seale Harris, Jr. Ala. 1923 • Charles Fauntleroy Harrison Va. 1931 • Charles Frederick Haupt N.Y. 1947 – A • Jesse Hartwell Heath, Jr. Va. 1938 • Louis Armistead Heindl, Jr. Va 1942 • Fred Bruce Hill Ky. 1941 • Frederick Allen Hippey Va. 1939 • Shirley Thomas Holland, Jr. Va. 1942 • Woodard Hoover Md. 1943 • Gilder Stansbury Horne, Jr. N.C. 1941 • Henry Clay Hudgins Va. 1932 • William Hervey Humlong, Jr. Mich. 1945 • Victor Hugo Idol, Jr. N.C. 1941 • John Kessler Jones, Jr. N.J. 1946 • James Nutty Jones Va. 1927 • Meriwether Jones Va. 1942 • Robert Emory Jones Va. 1945 • Thaddeus Wallace Jones, Jr. 1939 • Benjamin Rives Kearfott Va. 1943 • Charles Leslie Keerans, Jr. N.C. 1920 • William Parham Kevan, Jr. Va. 1939 • Philip Henry Killey W.Va. 1941 • Everett Glenn King Ga. 1942 • Rufus DeWitt King, Jr. Ga. 1936 • Stuart Waller King Va. 1919 • William Joseph Lang, Jr. Texas 1940 • Valentine Browne Lawlwss Va. 1932 • Robert Thornton Lemmon, Jr. Va. 1943“They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.”
( Second Marker : )Robert Augustus Lewis, Calif. 1942 • Lewis Archie Lillard, Va. 1942 • Jackson Sterling Littrell, N.Y. 1939 • Malcolm Blanchar MacKinnon, N.Y. 1940 • James Sinclair MacLean, Jr. Va. 1945 • Beriah Magoffin, III, Minn. 1936 • William Mahl, Jr., N.Y. 1945 • William Dow Markin, Ohio 1943 • Arthur Walter Marklis, Mass. 1932 • Richard Jaquelin Marshall, Jr., Va. 1944 • Walter Coleman Martin, Jr., Va. 1945 • Walter Norris Mason, Jr., Va. 1932 • George Alvin Massenburg, Jr., Va. 1942 • James Thomas Matthews, Va. 1947 – G • Nelson Eugene McCaa, Miss. 1940 • William Sayers McCauley, Va. 1941 • John Knudson McCullough, Ala. 1942 • John Joseph McEveety, N.Y. 1937 • Douglas Garvin McMillin, Tenn. 1940 • George Franklin Miller, Va. 1929 • Noel McHenry Moore, Jr., Ga. 1930 • Dan Joseph Morton, Ga. 1941 • Marcus Alfred Mullen, N.Y. 1936 • Charles Francis Nash, II, Va. 1941 • Alexander Caldwell Newton, Fla. 1931 • Robert Williamson Nix, III, Va. 1939 • David Ramsey Oakey, Va. 1942 • Leo Elmer Ofenstein, Md. 1937 • Thomas Ranson Opie, Va. 1940 • Addison Wilson Palmer, Jr., Fla. 1934 • George Smith Patton, Jr., Calif. 1907 Alexander Bruce Pendleton, Va. 1937 • George Booker Peters, Va. 1941 Samuel Duncan Puller, Va. 1922 • George Walter Renneman, N.Y. 1945 • John Marshall Ribble, Va. 1921 • William Thomas Semmes Roberts, Va. 1920 • Layne Rogers, Jr. Ill. 1945 • Edward Dunston Romm, Va. 1931 • William Val Sanford, Tenn. 1914 • Leonard Savitz, Pa. 1947 – A • Bailby Moses Sawyer, N.Y. 1927 • Ivanhoe Harrison Sclater, Jr. Mass. 1937 • James Fiske Searcy, Pa. 1941 • John Andrew Shanklin, Jr., W.Va. 1938 • Harold Carlock Sheffey, Va. 1937 • William Gray Shultz, Md. 1941 • Robert Luther Sibley, Jr. W.Va. 1938 • Manley Olin Simpson, Jr. Va. 1942 • Franklin Fletcher Smith, N.C. 1927 • Harry Lee Smith, Jr., Va. 1945 • James Alexander Smith, III, Va. 1940 • William Alexander Smith, Va. 1944 •Walter Stanley Smith, Jr., Pa. 1946 • Joseph Alfred Sosbee, Jr. Ark. 1941 • Augustus Rudd Spencer, Va. 1941 • George Hubert Steed, Jr., Va. 1941 • Virginius Rawls Stell, Jr., Va. 1944 • Joseph Warren Stirni, Va. 1931 • John Vandergrift Summerlin, Va. 1929 • Joseph Andrew Summers, Jr., Tenn. 1944 • Joseph Rodney Swetting, Jr., Pa. 1941 • Samuel Augustus Syme, D.C. 1921 • James Preston Taylor, Va. 1945 • Peyton Lisby Wade Thompson, Jr., Ga. 1943 • Edward Wood Thomson, Pa. 1919 • Paul Jones Thomson, Jr., Va. 1941 • Thomas Lee Thrasher, Jr., Va. 1941 • William Frederick Topham, Va. 1939 • Harold Willard Treakle, Va. 1945 • Norman Randolph Turpin, Va. 1942 • Richard William Twombly, Idaho 1944 • Maurice Linwood Tyler, Jr., Va. 1944 • William Peterkin Upshur, Va. 1902 • Carter Spottswood Vaden, Va. 1935 • Eugene Roane Venable, Va. 1934 • Sydney Archibald Vincent, Jr., Va. 1940 • Linwood Vinson, Jr., Va. 1940 • Robert Dade Wall, N.C. 1942 • David Garland Waller, Va. 1945 • Harvey Mitchell Walthall, Md. 1945 • Joseph Guthrie Ward, Va. 1917 • John James Ward, Jr., Va. 1934 • John Burroughs Warren, Jr., Texas 1933 • George Major White, N.C. 1939 • Walter Pleasants White, Va. 1945 • George Cooley Willcox, Mich. 1924 • William Robinson Williams, Va. 1925 • John David Wilson, Ky. 1939 • John Allison Woodall, Texas 1929 • Horatio Cornick Woodhouse, Jr., Va. 1936 •Edgar Mantlebert Young, Jr., Va. 1933 • Benjamin Allen Frye, Jr. Pa. 1945“They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.”
(War, World II) Includes location, directions, 4 photos, GPS coordinates, map.