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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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Moses Robert White

Corporal, Army

Hometown: Fauquier County, VA
Casualty Date: March 27, 1945
Died In: Rhine River, Germany
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Reuben Earl White

Pharmacist's Mate, First Class, Navy

Hometown: Dinwiddie County, VA
Casualty Date: August 9, 1942
Died In: 10 miles East Northeast of Savo Island
Awards: Purple Heart

ship sunk by Japanese naval gunfire during Battle of Savo Island

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Robert A. White

Specialist 4, Army

Hometown: Newport News
Casualty Date: February 7, 1966
Died In: South Vietnam
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Robert Laurayne White

Aviation Cadet, Army

Born: December 22, 1915
Hometown: Arlington
Casualty Date: August 2, 1943
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Robert W. White

Private First Class, Marine Corps

Hometown: Norfolk
Casualty Date: July 11, 1969
Died In: South Vietnam
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Samuel Andrew White

Technician, Fifth Grade, Army

Hometown: Tazewell County, VA
Died In: Normandy, France
Awards: Purple Heart

killed in World War II

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Thomas White

Sergeant, Army

Hometown: Albemarle County, VA
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Walter Pleasants White

Aviation Cadet, Army

Born: November 17, 1923
Hometown: Albemarle County, VA
Casualty Date: October 19, 1943

Walter graduated from Scottsville High School and attended the Virginia Military Institute. He is buried in Scottsville Cemetery, Scottsville, Virginia.

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William G. White

Other

Hometown: Alexandria

killed in the Korean War

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William O. White

Staff Sergeant, Army

Hometown: Richmond City, VA
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William O. White

Army

Hometown: Roanoke City

killed in World War II

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William W. White

Sergeant, Army

Hometown: Princess Anne County, VA
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Willie Condrey White

First Lieutenant, Army

Hometown: Richmond City, VA
Casualty Date: September 14, 1944
Died In: France
Awards: Purple Heart

First Lieutenant White graduated from Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University in 1938. He was employed as an agriculture instructor at Washginton-Henry and Battlefield Park High Schools in Hanover County, Virginia.

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Marvin Lenwood White

Private, Army

Born: September 16, 1925
Hometown: Nottoway County
Casualty Date: August 18, 1945
Died In: vicinity of Goppingen, Germany
Awards: Bronze Star Medal

Private Marvin Leemond White served with the 397th Infantry Regiment, 100th Infantry Division in France and Germany. Before the war, Marvin was born in Lithia, Botetourt County, Virginia, and raised with nine siblings.  He held various jobs that honed his skills driving heavy construction equipment.  One of the first jobs …

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Albert L. White, Jr.

Signalman 2nd Class, Navy

Hometown: Norfolk City
Casualty Date: February 23, 1944
Died In: Gulf of Aden, 15 miles off Ras al Kalb
Awards: Purple Heart
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Benjamin Franklin White, Jr.

Private First Class, Marine Corps

Hometown: Essex County, VA
Casualty Date: July 23, 1944
Died In: Mariana Islands, Guam
Awards: Purple Heart

Private First Class White served with H Battery, 3rd Battalion, 12th Marines, 3rd Marine Division. He was killed by a Japanese sniper. He was buried in US Military Cemetery Guam but later repatriated back to the United States to Lutheran Reformation Cemetery, New Market, Virginia. He was a 1941 graduate …

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Gordon Henry White, Jr.

Staff Sergeant, Army

Born: December 31, 1921
Hometown: Bedford, VA
Casualty Date: June 6, 1944
Died In: Normandy, France

Served with the Regimental Combat Team, A Company, 116th Infantry Regiment, 29th Infantry Division. He is buried in Forest Baptist Church, Forest, Virginia.

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James G White, Jr.

Sergeant, Army

Born: July 21, 1925
Hometown: Richmond, VA
Died In: N/A
Awards: Eur-Afr-MidEastern Campaign Medal, Good Conduct Medal, WWII Victory Medal, Meritorious Unit Award

Combat in France and Germany in 1944 & 1945

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William N. White, Jr.

Private First Class, Army

Hometown: Norfolk City

killed in World War II

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Homer M. Whitecotton

Private, Army

Hometown: Highland County, VA
Casualty Date: November 22, 1944

buried in Smith Family Cemetery Route 647

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