| War Veterans
suggestions, requests and comments. This is not intended to be a complete list of Hopedale people who served in the armed forces. It's a menu with links to articles on most who were killed and a few others for whom I've found stories. To see complete lists, at the end of each war below, there is a link to the names on the town website. * denotes killed in action. Civil War William F. Draper Letters, 1861 - 1862 Charles Johnson * 54th Massachusetts Infantry Gilbert Thompson Spanish-American War Paul T. French * List on town site for the Spanish-American War World War I Edward Burnham * Davis Gabry * Wickliffe P. Draper Talk about his experiences Paul H. Harris * Darrell E. Lindsey * Thomas Malloy Rescues his friend Raymond Alden Piper * John M. Raymond * Walter Tillotson * Legion post named for him
World War I Honor Roll List on town site for World War I World War II David Allen Letter from Japan Frederick Austin * Ship named for him William Baer * Died in the South Pacific John Barr * Served in WWI and WWII Lawrence Barrett Served in WWII, Korea and Vietnam Robinson Billings * Shot down near Singapore William Caufield, Jr. Visit to a concentration camp. Leverett Clark * Died when plane crashed in Africa Walter Dec Home from Australia Francis DeRoche * Died in France Robert Draper Cotton Chats article William Draper Navy combat artist Francis X. Gaffney * Killed in the South Pacific Lowell Hammond * First Hopedale man killed in WWII Larry Heron Severely wounded in France Harry Kimball * Killed in Germany Richard Knight * Killed in the Central Pacific Edward Malloy Served with Signal Corps in Europe Donald Midgley * Annapolis grad, died on sub Harry Midgley Hit by V-1 attack Wilfrid Midgley Was Japanese prisoner of war Joseph Miller * Killed on Luzon Richard Newell C-47 navigator Roy Rehbein Served with infantry in Europe Henry E. Rumse * Killed in the South Pacific Ferdnand Peter Spadoni * Killed in South Pacific Charles Stewart Reported KIA, but wasn't Francis Wallace * HHS Honor Society named for him Thomas Woodrow Wilson * Killed in the Philippines William Wood Bronze Star after 60 years Wartime photos from Cotton Chats The war years in Hopedale World War II Honor Roll List on town site for World War II Korean War Richard Griffin * List on town site for Korean War Vietman War Douglas D'Orsay * John Steel * List on town site for Vietnam War List on town site for Persian Gulf War List on town site for Bosnia-Kosovo List on town site for Afghanistan War List on town site for Iraq War ********************** |