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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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Mark M. Gillespie

Private, Army

Hometown: Bath County
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Thomas Lee Gillespie

Staff Sergeant, Army

Hometown: Smyth County, VA
Died In: St Lo, France
Awards: Purple Heart
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Earl J. Gilley

Technician, Fifth Grade, Army

Hometown: Wise County, VA
Casualty Date: November 6, 1944
Died In: Forser, Germany
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Harbour Stanley Gilley

Private First Class, Army

Hometown: Patrick County, VA
Casualty Date: November 19, 1944
Died In: Germany
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Melvin James Gilley

Staff Sergeant, Marine Corps

Hometown: Petersburg
Casualty Date: October 30, 1953
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Paul E. Gilley

Private First Class, Army

Hometown: Lee County, VA
Casualty Date: March 12, 1945
Died In: Mindanao, Philippine Islands
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Russell James Gilley

Private First Class, Army

Hometown: Grayson County, VA
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Carl Fred Gilliam

Staff Sergeant, Army

Hometown: Scott County, VA
Casualty Date: August 3, 1944
Died In: France
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Claude GIlliam

Private First Class, Army

Hometown: Wise County
Casualty Date: June 2, 1951
Died In: North Korea
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George Edward Gilliam

Corporal, Army

Hometown: Fauquier County, VA
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John Douglas Gilliam

Private First Class, Army

Hometown: Portsmouth, VA
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John Willie Gilliam

Private, Army

Born: August 7, 1919
Hometown: Dinwiddie County, VA
Casualty Date: March 15, 1942

Private Gilliam is buried in Shiloh Baptist Church Cemetery, Dinwiddie, Virginia.

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Larry Edward Gilliam

Army

Hometown: Cumberland
Casualty Date: December 3, 1970
Died In: South Vietnam
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Lonnie William Gilliam

Seaman 1st Class, Navy

Hometown: Lynchburg
Casualty Date: February 24, 1944
Died In: North Atlantic
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Patteson Gilliam

First Lieutenant, Air Force

Hometown: Petersburg
Casualty Date: September 30, 1950
Died In: near Uisong, Korea
Awards: Distinguished Flying Cross
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Warren C. Gilliam

Private First Class, Army

Hometown: Wise County, VA
Died In: St Lo, France
Awards: Purple Heart
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Lewis Clarence Gills

Corporal, Marine Corps

Hometown: Hampton
Casualty Date: August 16, 1968
Died In: South Vietnam
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Robert B. Gills, Jr.

Staff Sergeant, Army

Hometown: Alexandria, VA
Casualty Date: May 21, 1943
Died In: Pacific
Awards: Air Medal, Presidential Unit Citation
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John Nelson Gillum, Jr.

Staff Sergeant, Army

Born: April 3, 1923
Hometown: Charlottesville, VA
Casualty Date: November 5, 1944
Died In: over Ludwigshafen, Germany
Awards: Air Medal, Bronze Star Medal, Distinguished Flying Cross, Purple Heart

Served with the 410th Bomb Squadron, 94th Bomb Group, Heavy. Attended Lane High School. He was the Right Waist Gunner on plane # 43-38727 and was hit by flak and died.

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Larry E. Gilman

First Lieutenant, Army

Hometown: Ashland, VA
Died In: N/A
Awards: Army Seal, Bronze Star Medal, Meritiorious Service Medal, Commendation Medal, Republic of Vietnam Campaign Medal, Vietnam Service Medal

Company Commander – Combat Engineer Company, Vietnam; Group Commander – Engineers, Desert Storm.

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