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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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Marion Hugh Mawyer

Private First Class, Army

Hometown: Albemarle County, VA
Casualty Date: June 24, 1944
Died In: St Lo, France
Awards: Purple Heart

Private First Class Mawyer served with Company K, 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division. PFC Mawyer attended Red Hill High School and enlisted in the Monticello Guard in 1940. He was deployed to England for 21 months before being  wounded and succumbing to his injuries. His body was repatriated to …

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Clyde E. Maxey

Sergeant, Army

Hometown: Buckingham County, VA
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Franklin Albert Maxey

Staff Sergeant, Army

Hometown: Richmond City, VA
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Lafayette Granville Maxey

Army

Born: February 28, 1924
Hometown: Richmond, VA
Awards: WWII Victory Medal
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Ronald Curtis Maxey

Marine Corps

Hometown: Richmond, VA
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William H. Maxey

Private, Army

Hometown: Hanover County, VA
Casualty Date: March 15, 1945
Died In: Germany
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Fred E. Maxey, Jr.

Marine Corps

Hometown: Leeds, Alabama
Awards: WWII Victory Medal
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Gordon Simmons Maxwell

Ensign, Navy

Hometown: Roanoke City, VA
Casualty Date: February 24, 1941
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Ben Henry Maxwell

Staff Sergeant , Army

Born: February 17, 1957
Hometown: Appomattox
Casualty Date: April 18, 1983
Died In: Beirut, Lebanon

Staff Sergeant Maxwell served with E Company, 602nd Maintenance Company as a track vehicle repairer. On the afternoon of April 18, 1983, a suicide bomber drove a truck carrying 2,000 pounds of explosives under the awning of the U. S. Embassy building and detonated it, killing 52 military personnel and …

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David R. May

Private, Army

Hometown: Page County, VA
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James May

Technician, Fourth Grade, Army

Hometown: Prince William County, VA
Casualty Date: May 16, 1943
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John Duvall May

Sergeant, Army

Hometown: Alexandria, VA

Graduated from George Washington High School in Alexandria in 1937.

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John Allen May, Jr.

Technician, Fifth Grade, Army

Hometown: Charlottesville, VA
Casualty Date: August 29, 1943
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Charles Pressly Mayberry

Private, Marine Corps

Born: April 7, 1920
Hometown: Grayson County, VA
Casualty Date: April 14, 1945
Died In: Okinawa

Pvt Mayberry served with Company G, 2nd Battalion, 4th Marines, 6th Marine Division. He was killed April 14, 1945 on Okinawa. He is buried in Oakwood Cemetery, Statesville, North Carolina. Before the war, he worked as a weaver at the Galax Weaving Company in Galax, Virginia.

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David Rouse Mayberry

Private, Army

Born: January 18, 1924
Hometown: Appomattox County, VA
Casualty Date: October 4, 1944

Served with the 30th Infantry Regiment, 3rd Infantry Division.

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William E. Mayberry

Private First Class, Army

Hometown: Lynchburg
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Vernon S. Mayberry, Jr.

Machinist's Mate, First Class, Navy

Hometown: Portsmouth, VA
Casualty Date: September 12, 1944
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Charles Mayer

Navy

Hometown: Norfolk City
Casualty Date: December 10, 1941
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Collier Edwards Mayes

Private First Class, Army

Hometown: Petersburg, VA
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James Mayes

Sergeant, Army

Hometown: Petersburg, VA
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