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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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Clarence E. Watson

Corporal, Army

Hometown: Middlesex County
Casualty Date: November 28, 1950
Died In: North Korea
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Delmis C. Watson

Private First Class, Army

Hometown: Covington
Casualty Date: September 2, 1969
Died In: South Vietnam
Awards: Bronze Star Medal, Purple Heart
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Edwin M. Watson

Major General, Army

Hometown: Martinsville
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Edwin Martin Watson

Major General, Army

Hometown: Albemarle County, VA
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Gilbert O. Watson

Staff Sergeant, Army

Hometown: Bedford, VA
Casualty Date: October 27, 1942
Died In: Pacific
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Milton Edward Watson

Staff Sergeant, Army

Born: December 19, 1896
Hometown: Accomack County, VA
Casualty Date: July 13, 1943

Served with Battery H, 1st Provisional Cadre Coast Artillery. Enlisted in 1927. He is buried in Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, VA.

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Stephen Earl Watson

Staff Sergeant, Army

Born: October 29, 1917
Hometown: Bedford, VA
Casualty Date: June 11, 1945
Awards: Air Medal, Purple Heart

He is buried in Oakwood Cemetery Bedford, Virginia.

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Walter Conrad Watson

Staff Sergeant, Marine Corps

Hometown: Bedford
Casualty Date: November 27, 1950
Died In: Chosin Reservoir, Korea

Served with H Company, 3rd Battalion, 7th Marine Regiment, 1st Marine Division.

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Willard Lee Watson

Private, Marine Corps

Born: April 7, 1920
Hometown: Fredericksburg, VA
Casualty Date: March 6, 1945

Before the war, Pvt Watson worked for the U. S. Government in a torpedo plant in Alexandria, Virginia.

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William H. Watson

Private, Army

Hometown: Roanoke City, VA
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William Hurst Watson

Private First Class, Army

Hometown: Roanoke, VA
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J. B. Watson, Jr.

Private First Class, Marine Corps

Born: July 21, 1925
Hometown: Newport News
Casualty Date: March 5, 1945
Died In: Iwo Jima

Private First Class Watson served with Company G, 2nd Battalion, 25th Marines, 4th Marine Division. Before the war, he was employed by the Newport News Shipbuilding and Dry Dock Company. He is buried in the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific, Honolulu, Hawaii.

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Henry Hunter Watson, Jr.

Lieutenant, Junior Grade, Navy

Born: May 6, 1918
Hometown: Nottoway County, VA
Casualty Date: April 21, 1944
Died In: off North coast of New Guinea

Lieutenant Junior Grade Watson served with US Navy Task Force 58 that was part of a flight of six dive-bombers targeting Sawar Airfield in New Guinea as support group for the American invasion of Hollandia. Before the war, Henry graduated from Hampden-Sydney College in 1938 and the University of Virginia …

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Egbert T. Watt, Jr.

Second Lieutenant, Army

Hometown: Fairfax County, VA
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John F. Watt, Jr.

Other

Hometown: Richmond City & Henrico County
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Kelly Everett Charles Watters

Lance Corporal, Marine Corps

Hometown: Virginia Beach
Casualty Date: June 11, 2008
Died In: Fallujah, Al Anbar Province, Iraq

Lance Corporal Watters served with the 3rd Battalion, 6th Marine Regiment – 2nd Marine Division, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. He died of wounds sustained in a firefight. He attended Floyd Kellam High School.  

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Charles Watterson, Jr.

Second Lieutenant, Army

Hometown: Roanoke City, VA
Casualty Date: November 27, 1944
Died In: Europe
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John Richard Watts

Sergeant, Army

Born: September 18, 1925
Hometown: Accomack County, VA
Casualty Date: March 24, 1945
Died In: Milchplatz, Germany

Served with B Company, 89th Chemical Mortar Battalion, 75th Infantry Division.

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Vinson Watts

Corporal, Army

Hometown: Lee County, VA
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Lewis Alfred Watts, Jr.

Private, Army

Born: May 14, 1925
Hometown: Norfolk City
Casualty Date: September 25, 1944
Died In: France
Awards: Purple Heart, Combat Infantryman Badge

Private Watts served with the 141st Infantry Regiment, 36th Infantry Division. He is buried in Epinal American Cemetery, France.

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