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Commemorating War Causalities

Commemorated in Childers Plaza (across from the Lay Physical Activities Center (PAC)/Bryan Center for Military Science)

On the Doughboy Statue:

WWI

  • Lieutenant John H. David, Jr.
  • Lieutenant Charles S. Gardner [should be Charles T. Gardner]
  • Sergeant Charles E. Timmons, Jr.
  • Corporal Talmadge W. Gerrald
  • Private Thomas J. Lyon, Jr.
  • Private Otis B. Brodie

WWII

  • Hoyt Acker, Jr. '41
  • Joel Milton Acker, Jr. '37
  • John Henry Anders, Jr. '44
  • Maxie Lee Anderson '37
  • Donald Joseph Baker '40
  • Thomas Joseph Bass, Jr. '43
  • James Edwin Bridges '42
  • James Mack Campbell '46
  • Ernest Lingle Caskey '40
  • Luther Paul Chapman, Jr. '45
  • William Steedly Clary '28
  • Martin Ansel Clowney '29
  • Robert Lee Cox '43
  • William Roper Day '39
  • William Henry Dearheart '42
  • Hartwell Coleman Dew '40
  • Sidney McNeil Epps '35
  • Alvin Etheridge '37
  • Sam W. Fayonsky '28
  • Roy Anderson Griffin '31
  • Henry Canon Hinson '30
  • Ralph Garvie Hodgson, Jr. '43
  • David Alvin Horton '38
  • Grover Huppel '41
  • Thomas Dillard Jacobs, Jr. '42
  • Joseph Herbert James, Jr. '41
  • William Bryan Jones, Jr. '44
  • Furman Fuller Keys '44
  • Richard Brooks Kimball '43
  • Frank LaGrande, Jr. '44
  • William Adams League '42
  • William Warren Lipscombe, Jr. '43
  • Calvin Earl McClain, Jr. '41
  • George Walter McIver '36
  • Robert Hayes McConnell '33
  • John Gates Martin '26
  • James Rembert Martin '43
  • Churchill Anderson Marvin '44
  • Sam Lewis Meacham, Jr. '41
  • Paul Kenneth Mellichamp '28
  • Robert Mazy Mitchell '38
  • William Jackson Patterson '36
  • Kingsley Robert Pearse '46
  • Columbus Gayle Pelham '39
  • John William Robinson '43
  • Furman Martin Schneidermann '45
  • Joel Burgen Sherrill '40
  • Riley Carrell Shirley '46
  • Ray Malcolm Skelton '45
  • George Frederick Southern '29
  • Samuel Avery Turrentine '47
  • William Thomas Veazey '44
  • William Jefferson Walker '36
  • David Charles Wall '43
  • James William Whalen '46

On a plaque:

 Korean War

  • Ladson K. Martin ’48
  • Joe C. Thomas ’50

Vietnam War

  • Thomas Kukowski ’69
  • Marion E. Reed ’54
  • William O. Winston ’68