Wicomico War Veterans' Memorial

The Wicomico Youth & Civic Center is itself a living war memorial, with each of its rooms named after historically important military conflicts: Normandy, Midway, Da Nang and Flanders. Outside the venue stands the Wicomico War Veterans' Memorial, erected in 2003 to honor those who paid the ultimate sacrifice while serving in the United States Army, Air Force, Navy, Coast Guard, Marines and Merchant Marines. It was built entirely from donations and in-kind labor from area businesses.

The memorial flies flags from each service branch, along with United States, Maryland, Wicomico County and POW-MIA flags. The flags fly proudly over a brick wall displaying bronze plaques with the names of Wicomico County's fallen veterans from World War I to today.

Over 190 names are engraved on the outdoor memorial's bronze plaques. These fallen war heroes are listed in alphabetical order by the war in which they served.  To further preserve the memory of those lost, the War Memorial Committee actively seeks background information of each individual. Those who can share stories or offer photos are asked to call Linda Lyons at 410-548-4900 ext. 115.

To complement the outdoor War Memorial, a Veterans' Tree of Honor was added to the WY&CC lobby in 2005. Family and friends of both living and deceased veterans are invited to honor their loved ones with a visible reminder of their service – an engraved gold leaf. Leaves can be purchased for $100 by contacting Linda Lyons at 410-548-4900 ext. 115 or you can download a form.

The outside Wicomico War Veterans' Memorial and Veterans' Tree of Honor are the result of an active War Memorial Committee. The mission of the committee is to honor the armed forces from Wicomico County who lost their lives while serving the United States during war. The Wicomico War Memorial will be maintained into perpetuity to mark the sacrifice of these heroes and the high price of the freedom we share.

• World War I
• World War II
• Korean War
• Vietnam War
• Enduring Freedom
• Iraqi Freedom
• Memory Tree

Wicomico County War Memorial Committee

• Anthony Sarbanes
• Ralph Cordrey
• Bill Ferguson
• Steve Carey
• Leo Cherry, Jr. 
• Don Fitzgerald
• Dave Suiter
• Ed Tattersall
• Jack Lewis
• George Vickers
• Leonard Addis

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World War I Heroes 

Pvt. Samuel H. Bailey Pvt. Johnnie W. Baker Pvt. Herman Ballard Pfc. Olin H. Carey Pvt. John W. Church Pfc. Lloyd R. Coulbourn Pvt. Clarence S. Davis Pfc.George B. Davis Pvt. Franklin A. Dick Pvt. William W. Disharoon Pvt. John R. Dykes Pvt. Perry B. Farmer Pvt. Samuel Grissom

Pvt. James C. Hambury Pfc. Herman F. Handy Pvt. John W. H. Hayman Pvt. George R. Hill Cpl. Clarence H. Hosier Pvt. Paul C. Howard Pvt. William J. Huston Pvt. John E. Layfield Cpl. George S. Malone Cpl. Theodore McClymont Pvt. Kenny J. Moore Pvt. Joshua W. Parker Cpl. Edward M. Porter

Pvt. Richard A. Powell Pfc. Frederick D. Pusey Pfc. Glenn Rayne Sea. Herbert H. Renshaw Capt. Charles H. Riggin Pvt. Walton Smith Pvt. Raymond H. Smullen Pfc. William P. Taylor Pvt. Archie W. Truitt Pvt. Arthur E. Walker Pvt. Harry L. White Pvt. Ralph E. Windsor Pvt. Wallace S. Winfree

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World War II Heroes

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Pvt. Grover A. Abrams Pfc. Ralph E. Adams Pfc. Phillip G. Adkins S1c. Milton G. Austin Pfc. James T. Bailey T/Sgt. Brenton W. Baker S/Sgt. Woodrow J. Beasley Pvt. James R. Belote Pvt. Glen L. Bennett Bm1c. Richard J. Bertin AMM1c. Edward F. Booth Jr. Pfc. George E. Bozman 2nd Lt. Francis L. Brown Jr. Pvt. James E. Campbell Cpl. Gay Canfield Sgt. Harry E. Christner Lt. J.G. Howard F. Clark Pfc. William W. Collins T/Sgt. Arthur P. Crisp S/Sgt. John G. Cropper AOM2c. Wayne E. Cummings Pfc. Robert Day RdM3c. Lloyd F. Dennis Jr. Pfc. Olen H. Dennis WOJG. Floyd W. Deshields Cpl. Harry E. Dolbey Jr. Pvt. Clarence M. Doyle Pfc. Earl Dryden Pfc. Harold E. Dutton S/Sgt. Ernest L. Esham T/5. Elwood F. Evans Cpl. Elton W. Farlow Sgt. Hugh P. Freeman Lt. Col. Samuel W. Freeny Pfc. Rolland E. Galusha 2nd Lt. Vernon L. German Pfc. Wilbur H. Goslee

Cpl. Taylor W. Graham Pvt. Henry J. Gully Jr. Cpl. William S. Hartman Pfc. Howard E. Hastings EM1c. Richard B. Hitch SM3c. William D. Hopkins S1c. Lewis J. Howard Jr. Pfc. Charles L. Jackson Jr. Pfc. Edward L. Johnson Sgt. George Kerekesh M/Sgt. Curtis P. King Pvt. Scott J. Lankford Pfc. Alton J. Latchum Pfc. William H. Layfield S1c. Calvert A. Lecates Pfc. George H. Lewis Pfc. George H. Long Pfc. Johnnie C. Long S/Sgt. Howard J. Malone 1st Lt. Robert R. Malone Master William M. Martino Pvt. Edmund L. Massey ARM2c. Ralph C. McCain Messman William C. Messick Pfc. Oland G. Mills Pvt. Thomas W. Mitchell Jr. PhM3c. Marion Moore Pfc. Norman W. Morris Pfc. Stanley W. Morris Pfc. Carlton L. Mumford S/Sgt. William C. Mumford Jr. Pvt. Harry Neill Pvt. Phillip J. Neptin Ens. Walter P. Nock Jr. StM2c Julius Nutter Pfc. Thurman F. Parker Cpl. William V. Parker

ARM1c. Willis A. Parker Pfc. Andrew B. Perdue Pvt. Harold D. Perry AOM2c. Samuel H. Poulson QM3c. James R. Powell Pvt. Otho T. Powell Pfc. Albert G. Price 2nd Lt. John T. Price Pfc. William E. Rapp T/Sgt. Robert E. Rencher Pfc. Herbert L. Ruark Jr. Sgt. Ralph L. Ruark 2nd Lt. Elmer G. Schantz S/Sgt. Clifford H. Smith Pfc. Edwin F. Smith Pfc. Albert G. Smullen 1st Lt. David L. Somervell S/Sgt. Harley A. Speare Jr. Pfc. Donald G. Taylor Pvt. Herbert Taylor Pfc. John H. Taylor Pvt. James E. Thomas Pfc. Paul E. Tingle S1c. George W. Townsend Jr. Pvt. Edward F. Truitt Sgt. James R. Truitt Pvt. Alden L. Tyrrell Sgt. Bertram L. Ware 2nd Lt. Lacy R. Westfall Pfc. Wallace R. White Pvt. Alvin K. Wilkins Pvt. Benton M. Wilkins Pfc. Louis W. Williams S2c. Charles L. Young Capt. Charles M. Zulick

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Korean War Heroes

Pvt. William Anderson Pvt. Richard L. Bacon Pfc. Nehemiah E. Butler Pfc. Allen D. Dashiell

Lt. (JG) Joseph H. Gollner Sgt. Rodney E. Johnson MSgt. John F. Parker

Pfc. Edward F. Richards Pfc. Phillip C. Skiles Pfc. Freemon C. Waller

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Vietnam War Heroes

SP4. Barrie V. Barnes Pfc. Gary L. Bounds Maj. Richard W. Cooper Jr. Pvt. Elmer N. Davis SP4. William J. Daubert S/Sgt. Cecil V. Evans Pfc. Aaron M. Hopkins Pvt. Marion B. Hughes Jr.

Cpl. Frederick R. Killmon Col. Ernest A. Olds A1c. Norman W. McRobie Pfc. William T. Parker III S/Sgt. Charles W. Parsons Cpl. Norman J. Pearson S/Sgt. George T. Powell WO. Millard E. Price Jr.

SP4. Carl Ratcliffe Jr. S/Sgt. George L. Robertson Pfc. David S. Seldon LCpl. Don L. Shockley Pfc. Jack H. Smith Cpl. Harvey R. Watson Sgt. Neopolis Wigfall SP4. John D. Willingham

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Enduring Freedom War Heroes

• S/Sgt. Walter F. Cohee III
• SGM Wardell Turner

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Iraqi Freedom War Heroes

• Cpl. Eric Caldwell
• Pfc. Robert A. Guy
• Sgt. Thomas L. Latham
• S/Sgt. Michael McMullen
• Cpl Sean Michael Mitchell

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Memory Tree

Abbott, Keith K. Abercrombie, Daniel W. Adams, Howard Addis, Leonard J. Adkins, Levin All Who Served By DP&L Ammons, Lester R. Antinori, Frank Arbogast, Charles P. Austin, Milton G. Bailey, Hollis Baker, Lee Baker, Jim O. Baker, Manford Baker, Terry Barger, James Barnes, James E. Barnes, Raymond O. Barnes, Rome Beahm, Harvey Beauchamp, Lee T. Beauchamp, Norris C. Bennett, Levin Blades, Thomas Bloodsworth, Denwood Bonsall, Frank Bowden, Thomas W. Boyce, Arthur Bozman, George E. Brewton, Joseph H. Brittingham, Barry (Jr.) Brittingham, Jack M. Brohawn, Howard N. Brown, Robert V. Brown, Herman Brown, Wilmer Bryant, Charles D. Bubas, Alexander J. Budd, James "Kinsey" Bunney, Robert H. Butler, Charles Byrd, William J. Caldwell, Eric Caldwell, Eric Thomas Campbell, George O. Campbell, George W. Campbell, James E. Carew, Milton Carey, Eugene M. Carey, Edwin P. Carey, Steven M. Carey Brothers Catlin, Wallace C. Clark, Charles H., Sr. Clement, Eugene R. Coffman, William Cohee, Walter F. Jr. Cohee, Walter F. Sr. Cohee, Walter F. "Trae" Collins, Bud A. Collins, Nathan Congro, Patrick Cooper, Donald R. Cooper, Russell Cooper, Freddie Crowson, James A. Cuger, Clayton Cullen, Richard Darby, Marvin C. Darby, Marvin Cooper Darrah, Donald Dashield, Joseph Dashiell, Charles R. Davis, George Davis, Robert F. Davis, Edgar V. Davis, Edgar W. Dennis, Charles H. Deutsch, Timothy N. Dix, William Stokely Donaway, Guy Donaway, Otis Dorr, Francis X. Dotson, William W. Downes, Vernon Dudderar, Raymond Dunn, Oscar S. Dunt, Robert S. DuPont, Ronald C. Eccleston, Christopher D. Elder, Edward R.  Elliott, Otis L. Elliott, Rufus Elliott, Robert M. Ellis, Howard Ellison, Thomas Ennis, Joseph J. Era, James L. Esham, Larry W. Evans, George H. Evans, Michael R. Evans, William C. Field, James C. Fischer, Michael Steven Fisher, George W. Fisher, Walter W. Fitzgerald, Donald Fleet Reserve Fleur, Charles L. Freeman, George R. Frey, Henry Frock, Charles F. Gale, Crawford "Billy" Garpstas, Joseph J. Garrison, Roy L. (Jr.) Geary, Evan L. Geary, Jerb (III) Geary, Herb (Jr.) Gibbons, Ernest J., Jr. Goetz, Arthur H. Goslee, Rhuel O. Gravenor, Dallis Gray, Harold E. Grier, Davd A. Griffith, John J. Guthrie, George E. (Jr.) Guy, Robert A. Hales, Bruce E. Hales, Hubert F. Hales, Marion E. Hall, Charles Edward Hall, Paul Hall, Phillip Hambury, Robert A. Hamilton, David C. Hammond, Arlie J. Hancock, George Hancock, Bruce A. Harington, Ronald C.

Hastings, Odel Hastings, Richard Hayman, Clyde A. Hayman, Howard W. Hayman, H. Graham Hazel, David Hazel, Jack Hazel, Joe Hazel, Richard Hazel, Robert Headley, Thomas J. Hearn, John W. Hearthway, Edward Hearthway, Ed Hearthway, Lester Vincent Hearthway, W. Edward Henderson, James Lee Henderson, James A. Hennesey, Kenneth Hill, Earl N., Jr. Hitchens, C. Luther Holland, Lillian Marshall Holmes, Roy Holt, Frank R. Hooper, Adolphus "Bud" Hooper, Charles Edward Hooper, Ralph Patrick Hooper, Walter Scott Hooper, William A. (Jr.) Horner, M. Franklin Hortie, Robert Howard, Jimmie Lee Hudson, George Hughes, Charles B. Hughes, Charles (Jr.) Humphreys, Leonard Hurley, Robert Jr.  Hurlock Post 243 Hussey, William H. Huston, G. Luther Hyle, David A. Ilczuk, Alex In honor of those that didn't return Jackson, Benjamin F. Jackson, Lawrence Jefferson, Alvin T. Jr. Johanson, Earl W. Jones, Bill Sr. Jones, Arthur "Deacon" Jones, Leroy C. "Buck" Jones, Robert R. Jones, Eugene Jones, Travis Jones, HC (III) Kayser, Gary Keller, Shauna McGriff Kelly, Alvin L. Kelly, Robert H. Kempke, Norman D. Kinhart, George Langrall, H. Orland (Jr.) Latham, Tommy Lee Layfield, J. Carroll Layton, Alfred R. Layton, Chris B. Layton, Joseph Haddaway Layton, Robert Lemon, Donald M. Lemore, Aurtis C. "Wink" Lewis, Harley R. Lewis, Gary Lewis, Jack P. Lewis, Jason T. Lewis, Lloyd W. Lipsett, Wayne E. Loera, Emilio Low, John Lynch, Brenden E. Lyon, John E. (Jr.) Lyons, Thomas C. Mackes, Scott MacPherson, Edward L. Maddox, Robert W. Maddox, Robert Maddox, William Maloney, John F. (III) Marine, William Martin, Lee Roy Martin, Roy Lee McAllum, William D. McCallister, Robert McCune, S. Bruce McGrath, Thomas McGriff, Charles E. McKee, Frances McKenney, Robert Mears, Ronald Messick, Eugene Messick, Russell Messick, Samuel S. (Jr.) Mihalik, Edward Miller, Alfred N. Mitchell, Harry Mitchell, Sean M. Moon, Thomas Moore, William Morris, Andrew Morris, Frank H. Morris, Charles J. Morris, Charles J. (Sr.) Morris, Ronald W. Morris, Wayne K. Moskowitz, Jerry Moultrie, Fred Mulvey, Michael P. Mumford, Thomas J. (Jr.) Mumford, Walter Murdock, Michael L. Murray, Arthur B. Murray, Ralph Neal, David N. Neal, Derek S. Newberry, Roy Fred Nibblett, Henry S. Nibblett, Orville C. Nibblett, Orville F. Nichols, Edward Nohe, Charles Obenschain, Philip Olson, Stephen J. (Jr.) O'Neill, George F. Ossman, George Ousler, Ira A. Outen, Randolph G Parkinson, Daniel Parks, Harley A. Parsons, Charles T. Parsons, Warren Parsons, Clarence Parsons, Richard

Pascarella, Edward A. Payne, Glen A. Pearson, Jimmy Penuel, J. Amos Phillips, Leon James Phillips, Bryan Phillips, Charles "Fendly" Phillips, E. Carlyle Phippin, Richard S. Pollitt, Carl W. Pollitt, J. Robert Porter, Alan "Tex" Porter, J.K. Powell, Grant Powell, Grant E. Sr. Powell, Ray E. Jr. Price, Millard E. Pritchett, Harry Purnell, Howard Ranese, Salvatore Rapp, Kenneth Recker, John F. Revelle, Susan Frock Richardson, Vaughn E. Rideout-Bey, Lewis Riley, Hugh Jackson Robinson, John B. Ross, William V. Ruark, Russel E. Rydzewski, Casme Sanchez, Martin Vickers Sarbanes, Anthony S. Sarbanes, Spyros P. Schafer, Gehhard Scholl, Daniel M. Schwartz, Charles F. Seidel, Sheldon Sellers, Eddie Sewell, Donald C. Sexton, Thomas Shay, Donald E. Shaver, Edwin Felton Sheller, Garrett Shelton, John R. Sherman, Ellsworth Shockley, Albert R. Shockley, David G. Shockley, James A. Shockley, James A. Jr. Shockley, Gorman W. Shue, Christopher G. Silvia, Charles B. Simms, Winfred Skelton, John Skinner, Robert O. Smith, David W. Smith, Ernest C. Smith, Ernest C. Smith, Ernest C. Smith, Jack H. Smith, Ralph H. "Buzz" Snee, Martin F. Snee, Thomas Snee, William H. Snezek, James H. Spear, Harley A. (Jr.) Spencer, Charles Spicer, Don Edward Stein, David Michael Sterling, John Sterling, Tony Jr. Sterling, Tony R. (Jr.) Sterling, Tony R. (III) Stevens, Allen Strudwick, Nash Sutliffe, Richard Tattersall, Edward W. (Sr.) Tattersall, James F. Taylor, Calvin A. Taylor, Frances "Boots" Taylor, Gary Alex Taylor, Robert James Thomas, James Edward Those that didn't make it home Timmons, Calvin H. Tobat, Frank Tomko, Paul Edward (Sr.) Travers, Chester Trice, Edward A. Truitt, Billy Wayne Truitt, Charles (Jr.) Truitt, Gordon Turano, Francis X. Twilley, Lester C. Tyler, George W. Vaccaro, Pansy Vach, Richard J., Sr. Vandegrift, Roger (II) Vandiver, C. Michael Vickers, Barry W. Vickers, George A. Vickers, John E. Vickers, Robert Walker, Arthur E. Walker, William C. Walsh, John R. Warren, Jesse B. Jr. Waters, Howard Watson, Cecil Edward Weatherly, Gilbert A. Webb, Joseph D. Webster, Robert L. Weitzel, Gordon Whaley, Oliver Wheatley, Jack E. Wheatley, Richard Wheatley, William White, Bradford White, Tyrone Arlanda White, J. Sheldon Whitmore, Charles A. Whittington, John Wicomico Post 64 Widgeon, Robert (Sr.) Wilkins, Carl Wilkins, Charles Harry Wilkins, Charles W. Wilkins, Wallace Williams, Philip D. Wilson, Michael L. Windsor, Ralph E. Winfree, George W. Winfree, Dennis Womack, William Wood, William R. Wyatt, Michael L., Sr. Young, Jason M.

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