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.
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. Memorial is in Fork Union, Virginia, in Fluvanna County. It 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. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 4723 James Madison Hwy, Fork Union VA 23055, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in

World War I Field Gun image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Evan Dwyer, January 2, 2026

2. World War I Field Gun

The weapon is a 4.7-inch Field Gun M1906, a US-produced artillery piece designed and issued to the army before WWI that saw only limited use overseas due to logistics and supply issues - quickly being supplanted by British and French versions of the French 75mm M1897.

the Piedmont

and in Central Virginia.

It is also in the American South

and specifically in the Upper South.

Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region,

North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

one of the original Thirteen Colonies,

one of the Confederate States of America,

and the Antebellum South.

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 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.

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

3. World War I Field Gun Marker

World War I Field Gun Display image. Click for full size.

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

4. World War I Field Gun Display

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

5. World War I Field Gun Marker

Photographed by Devry Becker Jones (CC0)

6. World War I Field Gun Marker

Photographed by Devry Becker Jones (CC0)

7. World War I Field Gun Marker

Credits. This page was last revised on February 28, 2026. It was originally submitted on September 6, 2021, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia. This page has been viewed 489 times since then and 28 times this year. Photos: 1. submitted on September 6, 2021, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia. 2. submitted on February 25, 2026, by Evan Dwyer of Richmond, Virginia. 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. submitted on September 6, 2021, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia.