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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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James W. Hamm

Sergeant, Army

Hometown: Tazewell County, VA
Casualty Date: January 15, 1945
Died In: Belgium
Awards: Purple Heart, Silver Star
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Linwood Joseph Hamm

Sergeant, Army

Born: June 23, 1925
Hometown: Kent Store, VA
Casualty Date: April 15, 1945
Died In: Hohenlepte, Germany
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Combat Infantryman Badge, Eur-Afr-MidEastern Campaign Medal, Purple Heart

Served in Europe during WWII

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Robert Lee Hamm

Army

Hometown: Fluvanna County, VA

Served in Korea for 13 months.

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Stanley S. Hamm

Technician, Fifth Grade, Army

Born: December 23, 1922
Hometown: Kent Store, VA
Died In: N/A
Awards: Eur-Afr-MidEastern Campaign Medal, Purple Heart

Wounded in action in Germany.

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William Estes Hamm

First Sergeant, Army

Hometown: Petersburg, VA
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William H. Hamm

Private, Army

Hometown: Roanoke County, VA
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William R Hamm

Navy

Hometown: Fluvanna County, VA
Died In: N/A

Served at US Naval Air Training Center in Millington, Tennessee.

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William Harry Hamman

Private, Army

Hometown: Shenandoah County, VA
Casualty Date: November 4, 1943
Died In: Naples. Italy
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Edward Cox Hammerbeck

Second Lieutenant, Marine Corps

Born: May 18, 1946
Hometown: Arlington
Casualty Date: August 28, 1969
Died In: Quang Tri Province, South Vietnam
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart

Served with the 2nd Platoon, B Company, 1st Battalion, 3rd Marines, 3rd Marine Division.

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Henry L. Hammerstein

Army

Hometown: Newport News
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Francis Colton Hammond

Hospital Corpsman, Navy

Hometown: Alexandria
Casualty Date: March 27, 1953
Died In: Korea
Awards: Medal of Honor

Served in the Korean War. Although wounded himself, he stayed to evacuate wounded marines under North Korean shellfire on March 27, 1953. While performing this duty, he was killed in action and was posthumously awarded the Medal of Honor.

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Stanley B. Hammond

Technical Sergeant, Army

Hometown: Mecklenburg County
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Henry Rawlings Hamner

Lieutenant, Navy

Born: March 13, 1922
Hometown: Lynchburg
Casualty Date: April 6, 1945
Died In: Okinawa
Awards: Silver Star, Purple Heart

Lieutenant Hamner served aboard the USS Howorth (DD-592).  “Pete” attended E. C. Glass High School and graduated with the 1943 class from the U. S. Naval Academy in June 1942 because of the war.  While at the academy, he was on the tennis and swimming teams.   He was employed by …

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Robert W. Ford Hamner

Private 1st Class, Army

Hometown: Dinwiddie County, VA
Casualty Date: September 20, 1942
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James Russell Hampton

Corporal, Army

Hometown: Henry County, VA
Casualty Date: January 26, 1944
Died In: Anzio, Italy
Awards: Purple Heart

Served with the 83rd Chemical Mortar Battalion

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Robert Hampton

Corporal, Marine Corps

Hometown: Wise County, VA
Casualty Date: March 3, 1945
Died In: Iwo Jima
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Rupert Lee Hampton

Machinist's Mate, Second Class, Navy

Hometown: Grayson County, VA
Casualty Date: October 24, 1944
Died In: aboard Arisan Maru in South China Sea
Awards: Purple Heart
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Hunter Franklin Hanback

Sergeant, Marine Corps

Born: January 18, 1933
Hometown: Richmond, VA
Died In: N/A
Awards: Marine Corps Seal, Korean Service Medal, United Nations Service Medal, National Defense Service Medal, Marine Corps Good Conduct Medal

Served in the Korean War.

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Andrew Gilbert Hancock

Seaman, First Class, Navy

Born: August 30, 1923
Hometown: Bland County, VA
Casualty Date: April 3, 1945
Died In: off Brunei, Borneo
Awards: Purple Heart

Seaman First Class Hancock served aboard the USS YMS-71 when it hit a mine near Brunei, Borneo and exploded. S1C Hancock’s body was never recovered. Before the war, he was employed by the Virginia Hardwood Lumber Company, Bland County, Virginia. He is memorialized on the Tablets of the Missing in …

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Harold Daniel Hancock

Shipfitter, Third Class, Navy

Hometown: Franklin County, VA
Casualty Date: October 1, 1943
Died In: off Bougainville, Solomon Islands
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