Lexington, Virginia — The American South (Mid-Atlantic)
VMI World War II Memorial
Photographed By Bill Coughlin, August 21, 2012
1. VMI World War II Memorial Marker 1
Inscription.
VMI World War II Memorial. .
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 DAlton 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, Florida 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., Florida 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.”.
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
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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 DAlton 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
Photographed By Bill Coughlin, August 21, 2012
2. VMI World War II Memorial Marker 2
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.
Photographed By Bill Coughlin, August 21, 2012
3. VMI World War II Memorial Marker
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
Photographed By Bill Coughlin, August 21, 2012
4. Markers at the Virginia Military Institute
Both of the VMI World War II Memorial markers can be seen on either side of the south entrance to Stonewall Jackson barracks.
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.”
Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: War, World II.
Location. 37° 47.423′ N, 79° 26.104′ W. Marker is in Lexington, Virginia. Memorial is on Letcher Avenue, on the left when traveling east. Marker is on the grounds of the Virginia Military Institute, at the Stonewall Jackson barracks. Touch for map. Marker is in this post office area: Lexington VA 24450, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Credits. This page was last revised on August 7, 2016. It was originally submitted on March 19, 2013, by Bill Coughlin of Woodland Park, New Jersey. This page has been viewed 1,687 times since then and 33 times this year. Photos:1, 2, 3, 4. submitted on March 19, 2013, by Bill Coughlin of Woodland Park, New Jersey.
