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With Honor, They Served Maryland and Their Country

With honor and distinction, these warriors of Maryland, native and transplant, volunteer and conscript, served their state and their country without reservation when called upon to stand with their comrades-in-arms in times of war and strife.

We salute them and give them, one and all, our eternal thanks for their service and sacrifice.

War of 1812

  • 1st. Lt. Benjamin M. Hodges

Indian Wars

  • Capt. George Baldwin McLane

Spanish-American War

  • Seaman Joseph B. Hedenger

World War I

  • BN Sgt. Maj. Benjamin William Flack
  • Pfc. E. James Carter
  • Sgt. Henry Nicholas John Gunther – Last Soldier Killed in WWI
  • Wagoner. George R. Jones
  • Sgt. Harry Walker
  • 2nd Lt. George Raney Debnam
  • Sgt. Stanley Delcher
  • Pvt. Wilmer Aubrey Disney
  • Pfc. William Amrheim
  • 1st. Lt. Robert Ober – American Expeditionary Force WWI, KIA during Muese-Argonne Offensive
  • ANCR Nurse Laura Virginia McGonigall

World War II

  • 1st. Lt. Catherine (Riggs) Isely – U.S. Coast Guard Reserve WWII
  • David Forster Woods
  • SN George F. Walters
  • Capt. Harry Osbin Walters
  • 1st. Lt. Helen Adeline (Hales) Seager
  • S2c. John Joseph Griffith
  • 2nd Lt. James Lee Hitt
  • Pfc. Anthony E. Costanza
  • SSgt. Raymond Colison Chance
  • Pfc. Roger Glenn Stansbury
  • Maj. David Henry Wainwright Houck – U.S. Army Air Forces WWII, Executed by Japanese
  • 1st. Lt. John Royden Forsythe  – U.S. Army WWII, POW/MIA 7 Sep 1944. Lost off Mindanao, Philippines.

Korea

  • Pvt. Earl Junior Brown – U.S. Army Korea, KIA 10 Sep 1950

Vietnam

  • CWO2 Robert James Watkins, Jr. –  U.S. Army Vietnam, KIA 8 Oct 1969

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