War Veterans
homepage to send 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 or died in service during war. Civil War William F. Draper In many battles - Badly wounded at the Wilderness Letters, 1861 - 1862 Charles Johnson * 54th Massachusetts Infantry - Died in Battle of Fort Wagner Gilbert Thompson Served as a cartographer. Survived to live an interesting life. Spanish-American War Paul T. French * Died on hospital ship, Bay State For more about Paul T. French see see Linda Hixon's book, Following the Threads, Buried at Sea: The Story of Paul French, by Nicole O'Connell. pp. 109 - 111.
World War I Edward Burnham * Killed in rifle range accident
Davis Gabry * Died of pneumonia (probably flu) in France Wickliffe P. Draper Talk about his experiences Paul H. Harris * Died of disease in France Darrell E. Lindsey * Died while guarding a bridge in Chester, Mass. Thomas Malloy Rescued his friend Raymond Alden Piper* Died in plane crash in France after the war John M. Raymond * Died while guarding a bridge near Warwick, R.I. Walter Tillotson * Killed in action in France - Legion post named for him
List on town site for World War I For for more about the seven men from Hopedale who died in World War I, see Linda Hixon's book, Following the Threads, Hopedale's World War I Sacrifices, by Nicole O'Connell. pp. 113 - 118.
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
List on town site for Korean War Vietnam War
Douglas D'Orsay * Killed in restaurant bombing in Saigon. John Steel * Killed while serving as a radio operator
******************** 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 ********************** . |