Since today is Veterans Day, I would like to say ‘Thank
You’ to all Veterans and especially
to the Veterans to have served from our family.
I love our Country and feel a deep debt of gratitude to all who have
served and still serve in the military to keep this land free.
Below is a list of the wars, beginning with the Revolutionary War, with some known family veterans from each war. If I have already written blog posts about a Veteran who served in the military, their name is the link to their information. Links also provided to separate blog posts with compiled lists of all Revolutionary War Veterans and all Civil War Veterans. These lists are far from complete, so leave a comment and add your family veteran.
Revolutionary War
War of 1812
Civil War
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| Henry R Stewart Union Army Little Rock National Cemetery |
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| Five Coddington Brothers all served in Union Army Father (front center) also served (his photo later added to original picture) |
World War I
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| Charles W Leffel and Kerby Leffel Brothers of our Grandma Mabel Leffel Baldwin |
John Wesley Leffel
Wounded in Action
Service included campaigns in
France and Germany
William High Baldwin
US Marine Corps
Wounded in Action
Service included campaigns in
France and Germany
William High Baldwin
US Marine Corps
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| William Martin "Vern" Wilson Brother of our Grandma Maymie |
World War II
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| Weldon Albert Baldwin Army Air Corps |
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| Jack Edward Taylor US Navy, Aviation Machinist Mate
Recipient of Purple Heart and Distinguished Flying Cross
Husband of Ethel Baldwin |
Robert Ward Pitts
WWII Navy
Re-enlisted in Army
Husband of Ethel Baldwin
WWII Navy
Re-enlisted in Army
Husband of Ethel Baldwin
Carroll Leroy "Buck" Neff
Recipient of Bronze Star
Recipient of Bronze Star
Husband of Esther Baldwin
Thomas Ernest Barker
US Army, Co A 128 Infantry
Troy Gene Barker
Leon A Killian
Recipient of Silver Star, Purple Heart, and Bronze Star
for Heroic Action under fire in Belgium during WWII
US Army, Co A 128 Infantry
Troy Gene Barker
Leon A Killian
Recipient of Silver Star, Purple Heart, and Bronze Star
for Heroic Action under fire in Belgium during WWII
Korean War
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| Charles Wilbur Martin Korean War - US Army |
More about Wilbur Martin, click here
Although I don't have photos for two of my uncles in their military uniforms, I still wanted to add them to the list of veterans. Both served in the Korean War: Jesse in the US Army and Vernyle "Tommy" Thompson in the US Navy. Uncle Vernyle was a champion rodeo bareback rider in 1959.
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| Jesse Baldwin (left) US Army -- Vernyle "Tommy" Thompson (right) US Navy |
Virgil Duane Lichliter
Sgt US Army Korea
82nd Airborne
Husband of Glenda Baldwin
Other Wars and Peacetime Military:
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| Leroy Martin US Navy |
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