Fork Union in Fluvanna County, Virginia — The American South (Mid-Atlantic)

World War I Field Gun

Photographed By Devry Becker Jones (CC0), September 4, 2021

1. World War I Field Gun Marker

Inscription. Click to hear the inscription.

Dedicated to all the soldiers of WWI

George Edmond Pannill • George William Aldinger • Robert Breslin Anthony • William Lambert Arrington • William Charles Batchelor, Jr. • Arthur Whitney Bollard • Lloyd Temple Boutchyard • Louis Walter Cherry, Jr. • Edward DeCarlo • Russell Kenneth Ellis • John Blair Fitzsimmonds • Richard Vivian Fowlkes, Jr. • W.D. Gibson • David Lee Grim • Gerald Lee Harden • Francis Wendell Latham • Donald Nelson Leilich • Stanley Harwood Mulford, Jr. • Donald Boyd McSween • Ernest Leland Morgan • Irving Benjamin Myers • Henry Cecil Patterson, Jr. • Edwin Bruce Perkins • William Croft Porter • William Witt Putney • Jack Keith Reed • George Owen Retan • Charles Gordon Robinson • Lloyd Alvin Seward, Jr. • Walter Stanley Smith, Jr. • Frank Pelham Stone • Arthur M. Ward, Jr. • William Semple Weaver, Jr. • Marion Louis Wolfgang • Pinckney Alonzo Wood • Harry Boykin Bagnell • Ramon C. Bearse, Jr. • Vincent Vargaz Diaz, Jr. • James Davis Allen, III • Paul Frederick Cobb • John Jerry Hale • James Harold Johnson, Jr. • James

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Polk Spruill • Charles Christian Pfordt, Jr. • William Sidway Price • Richard Winfred Riley • Troy Lorenzo Gregory • Thomas C.M. Zeugner • John Edward Blakemore • William Barry Thomas • R.H. Flannagan, Jr. • Thomas Austin Withers, Jr. • Frank Pelham Stone • Jonathan K. Dozier • Eric D. Terhune • Robert John Williams • George Henry Albrecht • Harold John Love

Greater love has no man than this, that he lay down his life for his friends John 15:13

Erected 1937 by American Legion Post 140, Hunter G. Bransford, Commander; presented to Fork Union Military Academy.

Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: War, World I.

Location. 37° 45.716′ N, 78° 15.734′ W. Marker is in Fork Union, Virginia, in Fluvanna County. Memorial can be reached from James Madison Highway (U.S. 15) 0.1 miles south of West River Road (Virginia Route 6), on the right when traveling north. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 4723 James Madison Hwy, Fork Union VA 23055, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 4 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. Second Century Guarantors (a few steps from this marker); Fork Union Military Academy (a few steps from this marker); Abraham Seay (about 300 feet

Photographed By Devry Becker Jones (CC0), September 4, 2021

2. World War I Field Gun Marker

away, measured in a direct line); Fork Union Baptist Church (about 400 feet away); Fork Union Academy (about 600 feet away); Fluvanna County World War Memorial (approx. 2 miles away); Point of Fork (approx. 2 miles away); John Jasper (approx. 3.6 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Fork Union.

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Photographed By Devry Becker Jones (CC0), September 4, 2021

3. World War I Field Gun Display

Photographed By Devry Becker Jones (CC0), September 4, 2021

4. World War I Field Gun Marker

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5. World War I Field Gun Marker

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6. World War I Field Gun Marker

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