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Welcome to the Virginia War Memorial’s Virginia Heroes database. This online resource is a comprehensive list of Veterans both in Virginia and across the country who wish to be represented.

This list includes all of Virginia’s Heroes who made the supreme sacrifice from WWII, Korea, Vietnam and the Persian Gulf and whose names are etched in stone and glass on the walls of the Shrine of Memory. Their records are indicated by a gold star.

Staffers and volunteers at the War Memorial continue to research the names and personal histories of Virginia’s fallen. As we learn more about these brave men and women, we will continue to add information to this database so that their stories may never be forgotten.

To submit your personal service record information, or that of any other Virginia veteran, living or deceased, please use the Veteran Updates form and submit to the Memorial for inclusion.

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Earnest Paul Artrip

Private, Army

Hometown: Russell County, VA
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Paul J. Artrip

Private First Class, Army

Hometown: Russell County, VA
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Charles R. Arvin

Staff Sergeant, Army

Born: May 12, 1924
Hometown: Lunenburg Co., VA
Died In: N/A
Awards: Army Seal, Combat Infantryman Badge, Good Conduct Medal, Purple Heart, WWII Victory Medal, Eur-Afr-MidEastern Campaign Medal
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Recil Paul Arwood

Corporal, Army

Born: November 18, 1929
Hometown: Scott County
Casualty Date: November 2, 1950
Died In: near Unsan, North Korea
Awards: Korean Service Medal, Purple Heart, National Defense Service Medal, United Nations Korean Service Medal Ribbon, Republic of Korea Presidential Unit Citation

Corporal Arwood served with C Company, 99th Field Artillery Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division. He name is etched in the Courts of the Missing, Honolulu Memorial, Hawaii.

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Brandon Scott Asbury

Sergeant, Army

Born: July 30, 1985
Hometown: Tazewell
Casualty Date: October 7, 2006
Died In: Baghdad, Iraq
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart, National Defense Service Medal, Combat Action Ribbon, Global war on Terrorism Service Medal, Iraq Campaign Medal

Sergeant Asbury served with the 4th Support Battalion, 1st Brigade, 4th Infantry Division, Fort Hood, Texas. He was killed by sniper fire when setting up a roadside check point. He was a 2004 graduate of Tazewell High School where he was active in the marching band. He is buried in …

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George Wyatt Ash

Sergeant, Army

Hometown: Fauquier County, VA
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William Wrightson Ashburne

Seaman, Second Class, Navy

Born: December 20, 1907
Hometown: Rockbridge County, VA
Casualty Date: December 14, 1944

Seaman Second Class Ashburne attended Lexington High School and worked for the Virginia Military Institute before the war. He is buried in Oak Grove Cemetery, Lexington, Virginia.

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Donald Roberts Ashby, Sr.

Lieutenant Commander, Navy

Born: April 8, 1930
Hometown: Newport News
Casualty Date: January 19, 1967
Died In: Gulf of Tonkin

Lieutenant Commander Ashby served with Fighter Squadron 114, Carrier Air Wing 11 aboard the USS Kitty Hawk. His name is memorialized in the Courts of the Missing, National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii.

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Andrew Lee Ashe, Jr.

Private, Army

Born: September 2, 1922
Hometown: Portsmouth, VA
Casualty Date: February 5, 1945

Private Ashe served with the 8th Infantry Regiment, 4th Infantry Division. He was a 1939 graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School and was employed at the Norfolk Naval Yard before enlisting in the Army in 1944. He is buried in Olive Branch Cemetery, Portsmouth, Virginia.

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Arthur L. Ashley

Private, Army

Hometown: Henry County, VA
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Garland G. Ashley

Army

Hometown: Nelson County, VA
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Upton Finley Ashley

Staff Sergeant, Army

Hometown: Winchester
Casualty Date: November 3, 1966
Died In: South Vietnam
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Willie P. Ashley

Army

Hometown: Nansemond
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Thomas Russell Ashley

Private, Army

Born: September 6, 1932
Hometown: Washington County
Casualty Date: February 14, 1951
Died In: Republic of Korea
Awards: Purple Heart

Private Ashley served with Company L, 3rd Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. He is buried in Mock Cemetery, Damascus, Virginia.

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Charles Ashton

Sergeant, Army

Born: August 31, 1918
Hometown: Westmoreland County, VA
Casualty Date: February 9, 1945
Died In: North of Cinqwale Canal, Italy

Sergeant Ashton served with Company K, 366th Infantry Regiment, 92nd Infantry Division. He is buried in Shalom Baptist Church Cemetery, Montross, Virginia.

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Garland B. Ashworth

Private First Class, Army

Hometown: Mecklenburg
Casualty Date: June 7, 1944
Died In: Normandy, France
Awards: Purple Heart
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Robert Foster Ast

Second Lieutenant, Army

Born: February 20, 1921
Hometown: Staunton, VA
Casualty Date: December 10, 1944
Died In: Belgium

Attended Augusta Military Academy and Wash & Lee University. 2LT Ast was killed by mortar fire as he crawled towards a German machine gun nest in Belgium. He is buried in Henri Chapelle American Cemetery.

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Cletis Adlai Atkins

Private First Class, Army

Born: October 3, 1920
Hometown: Lunenburg County, VA
Casualty Date: December 21, 1944
Died In: Leyte, Philippine Islands
Awards: Purple Heart, Presidential Unit Citation, Good Conduct Medal, WWII Victory Medal, Asiatic/Pacific Campaign Medal, American Campaign Medal

Private First Class Atkins served with Company C, 1st Battalion, 306th Infantry Regiment, 77th Infantry Division. was born the third of twelve children to Alta and Adlai Atkins and he grew up in Lunenburg County, Virginia. He married Nellie Mae Echols and they had one daughter, Judy Atkins. Cletis was …

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Clyde Thomas Atkins

Private, Army

Born: February 2, 1918
Hometown: Richmond City, VA
Casualty Date: November 29, 1944
Died In: Europe
Awards: Purple Heart

PVT Atkins served with the 179th Infantry Regiment, 45th Infantry Division. He is buried in U.S. Military Cemetery Epinal, France. Before the war, he worked for Richmond Cold Storage.

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John P. Atkins

Private First Class, Army

Hometown: Halifax County, VA
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