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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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Norman S. Huggins

Private, Army

Hometown: Danville, VA
Casualty Date: February 16, 1944
Died In: Italy
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Alpheus Warren Hughes

Corporal, Army

Hometown: Charles City, VA
Casualty Date: October 30, 1945
Died In: Europe
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Arthur Milton Hughes

Corporal, Marine Corps

Born: October 30, 1920
Hometown: Hopewell, VA
Casualty Date: July 9, 1944
Died In: Saipan, Northern Mariana Island

Corporal Hughes served with Company G, 2nd Battalion, 24th Marines, 4th Marine Division. He was killed in the Battle of Saipan on July 9, 1944. He was a 1938 graduate of Hopewell High School where he was the yearbook art editor. Before the war, he worked with his father in …

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Cecil Clayton Hughes

Second Lieutenant, Marine Corps

Born: October 23, 1920
Hometown: Arlington, VA
Casualty Date: June 1, 1945
Died In: Okinawa

Served with C Company, 1st Battalion, 29th Marines, 6th Marine Division.

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Charles E. Hughes

Private, Army

Hometown: Tazewell County, VA
Casualty Date: March 28, 1945
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Connie L. Hughes

Technician, Fifth Grade, Army

Hometown: Norfolk County
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Edward Wallace Hughes

Staff Sergeant, Army

Hometown: Orange County, VA
Casualty Date: December 24, 1944
Died In: Luxembourg

Staff Sgt. Edward Wallace Hughes was born December 5th in Pennsylvania. He was the 5th born of 7 children of Nellie Pendleton and Ernest Hughes. As a teenager, Edward moved with his family to Orange, Virginia where he attended high school. According to his mother’s accounts, he drove a cab, …

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Elmo W. Hughes

Technical Sergeant, Army

Hometown: Lee County, VA
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Herbert H. Hughes

Private, Army

Hometown: Nelson County
Casualty Date: January 30, 1944
Died In: Vitellera, Italy
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James Edward Hughes

Staff Sergeant, Army

Born: October 13, 1933
Hometown: Lynchburg
Casualty Date: March 13, 1966
Died In: Long Khanh Province, South Vietnam
Awards: Purple Heart

Staff Sergeant Hughes served with Detachment A-302, 5th Special Forces Group as a radio operator. He attended Pulaski County High School. He is buried in Blue Ridge Memorial Gardens, Roanoke, Virginia.

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Jesse W. Hughes

Private First Class, Army

Hometown: Lee County, VA
Casualty Date: July 13, 1944
Died In: Italy
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John Herman Hughes

Private First Class, Army

Hometown: Page County, VA
Casualty Date: March 29, 1945
Died In: Germany
Awards: Purple Heart
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John Thomas Hughes

Private First Class, Army

Hometown: Richmond City, VA
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Leroy Hughes

Private, Army

Hometown: Dinwiddie County
Casualty Date: February 3, 1951
Died In: Republic of Korea
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Sam Hughes

Sergeant, Army

Hometown: Lee County, VA
Casualty Date: May 1, 1943
Died In: North Africa
Awards: Purple Heart
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Walden Allan Hughes

Staff Sergeant, Army

Hometown: Augusta County, VA
Casualty Date: August 12, 1943
Died In: Gelsenkirchen, Germany
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William Hughes

Army

Hometown: Arlington
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John Fitzpatrick Hughes, Jr.

Platoon Sergeant, Marine Corps

Born: September 20, 1906
Hometown: Richmond City, VA
Casualty Date: December 14, 1944
Died In: Corregidor, Philippine Island

Platoon Sergeant Hughes served for 2 years in Tension, China from 1927 to 1929 and was discharged.  He reenlisted in 1933 and was at Cavite Naval Base, Philippine Islands at the beginning of World War II. He then transferred to Corregidor, Philippine Island where he was taken as a prisoner …

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Lucian D. Hughes, Jr.

Private, Army

Hometown: Nelson County
Casualty Date: July 30, 1944
Died In: St Lo, France
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Cleon Ware Hughson

Private, Army

Born: August 9, 1916
Hometown: Louisa, VA
Casualty Date: August 5, 1944
Died In: St. Lo, France

Private Hughson served with Battery A, 111th Field Artillery Battalion, 29th Infantry Division. He is buried in Richmond National Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia.

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