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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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Elmore M. Thompson

Sergeant, Army

Hometown: Tazewell County
Casualty Date: April 7, 1951
Died In: Korea
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Gene A. Thompson

Private First Class, Army

Hometown: Rockingham County
Casualty Date: June 8, 1952
Died In: North Korea
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George E. Thompson

Private First Class, Army

Hometown: Charlotte County, VA
Casualty Date: March 3, 1945
Died In: Germany
Awards: Purple Heart
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George F. Thompson

Private First Class, Army

Hometown: Scott County, VA
Casualty Date: March 22, 1945
Died In: Eastern France
Awards: Purple Heart
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George Frazier Thompson

Sergeant, Army

Hometown: Giles County, VA
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Grover Willis Thompson

Captain, Army

Hometown: Smyth County
Casualty Date: January 12, 1969
Died In: An Xugen Province, South Vietnam

Captain Thompson served with Advanced Team 51, Headquarters, Military Assistance Command Vietnam Advisors. He was a 1959 graduate of Scott Memorial High School in Wytheville. He is buried in Arlington National Cemetery.

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H. C. Thompson

Private, Army

Hometown: Wise County, VA
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Harrison Thompson

Private First Class, Army

Hometown: Culpeper County, VA
Casualty Date: March 11, 1945
Died In: Germany
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Harry F. Thompson

Private, Army

Hometown: Rockingham County, VA
Casualty Date: November 8, 1943
Died In: near Oran, Algeria
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart
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Harry Pleasant Thompson

Private First Class, Army

Hometown: Hampton, VA
Casualty Date: February 8, 1945
Died In: Luxembourg
Awards: Purple Heart
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Homer Lee Thompson

Private, Marine Corps

Hometown: Floyd County, VA
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Howard Thompson

Sergeant, Army

Hometown: Pulaski County, VA
Casualty Date: February 2, 1944
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J. W. Thompson

Private First Class, Army

Hometown: Danville
Casualty Date: September 2, 1967
Died In: South Vietnam
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James Franklin Thompson

Second Lieutenant, Army

Hometown: Norfolk County, VA
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James Robert Thompson

Sergeant First Class, Army

Born: November 8, 1927
Hometown: Hampton
Casualty Date: April 19, 1952
Died In: North Korea

Sergeant First Class Thompson served with E Company, 2nd Battalion, 27th Infantry Regiment, 25th Infantry Division. He attended George Wythe Junior High School and entered the service in 1945. He received an honorable discharge and worked at Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company, then reenlisted in 1948. His older …

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James Rudolph Thompson

Corporal, Army

Hometown: Rockbridge County, VA
Casualty Date: March 12, 1944
Awards: Bronze Star Medal
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John Bryer Thompson

Captain, Army

Hometown: Petersburg, VA
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John K. Thompson

Private First Class, Army

Hometown: Hampton
Casualty Date: November 24, 1966
Died In: South Vietnam
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Joseph Thompson

Longshoreman, Army

Born: November 24, 1922
Hometown: Lone Star, SC
Died In: N/A
Awards: Good Conduct Medal, WWII Victory Medal, Eur-Afr-MidEastern Campaign Medal
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Lloyd G. Thompson

Private, Army

Hometown: Northampton County, VA
Casualty Date: November 17, 1944
Died In: Germany
Awards: Purple Heart
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