The gray granite war memorial is located outside the Montgomery County Police Station/Courthouse in Mount Ida, Arkansas and is sponsored by V.F. Post 5026 Mt. Ida. Another listing

WW2 Memorial, Washington, D.C. Search the registry
American Battle Monuments Commission (ABMC) If he, United States serviceman, died in the war and if his body is overseas or was never recovered, obtain grave or memorial location by using the Honor Roll.
WW2 Navy Casulaties

*United States exhumed many American servicemen in Europe and the Pacific and repatriated them with military funerals. Out of the 38 servicemen listed for WWII, 15 were returned to the US or 39.5%.

World War II Honor List of Dead and Missing Army and Army Air Forces Personnel from Arkansas. 13. (NWCTM-407-WWIICASARMY-AR)
WWII Casualties Arkansas
How to Decode a WWII US Army Serial Number | Amy Johnson Crow (archive.org)

KIA Killed in action DOW Died of wounds DOI Died of injuries DNB Died non-battle FOD Finding of Death determined to be dead under Public Law 490 COL Colonel CAPT Captain AV C Aviation Cadet S SG  Staff Sargent TEC3 Technician Third Grade CPL Corporal PFC Private First Class PVT Private

NAME SERIAL NO RANK BERRY WILLIAM C 38665226 PFC KIA BLACK EUGENE J 20757039 AV C DNB* BOHANNON ROBERT J 18219153 S SG FOD CEARLEY GEORGE W O-922097 CAPT DNB* GOODNER EUGENE G 38334018 PVT FOD GOODNER HERBERT G 37062296 PFC KIA GUTHREY WALTER 38355813 PFC KIA IRONS ALVIN J 38663317 PFC KIA JONES HALBERT N 37107587 SGT KIA KELLY BILL O-425085 CAPT DNB LINGREN JOSEPH E 6856090 PVT KIA MCKINNEY LOYD J 38179989 PVT KIA MILLER NOEL B 38509412 TEC5 DNB SHEFFIELD CHARLES P O-022853 COL DNB SIMPSON JAMES H 38444351 PVT DOW SIMPSON VERNON E 38601277 PFC KIA SMITH ERNEST E 37063337 CPL KIA STEELY ARGUS 6297803 PFC DNB SUMMIT RADFORD R 38507072 PFC DOW SUMMIT LEO 38355828 PVT DNB WILLIS WILBURN L 18048401 PFC KIA WORRELL WILLIAM L 38663315 PVT DOW

Whitt L. Moreland, Medal of Honor US Marine Corps Reserve (March 7 1930-1951)  Buried at Whittington Cemetery. Enlisted at Waco, TX. His photo is in the State Capital, of TX in Austin in the new building underground.

29 May 1951: Private First Class Whitt L. Moreland, C Company, 1st Battalion, 5th Marines, earned the sixth-eight Medal of Honor of the Korean War. An intelligence scout attached to C Company, voluntarily accompanied a rifle platoon in an assault against a strongly defended enemy hill position near Kwagch'i-Gong, Korea where he materially assisted in seizing the position with his accurate rifle fire. After the position had been secured, PFC Moreland led a party forward through a fire-swept area to neutralize an enemy bunker 400meters beyond. Just short of the bunker, the enemy launched a volley of hand grenades at the party. Despite the personal danger involved, he kicked several of the grenades off the ridgeline and, while attempting to kick away another, slipped and fell near the deadly missile. Aware that the grenade would explode before he could dispose of it, he shouted a warning to his comrades and covered the grenade with his body, absorbing the full blast. His heroic actions at the cost of his own life saved his companions from possible injure or death. For his leadership and great valor, Private First Class Moreland was awarded the Medal of Honor and the Purple Heart posthumously.

SERVICE NUMBER 1083876 1083876
MEMBER COMPONENT CODE V Reserve
PERSON TYPE NAME CODE L ACTIVE - GUARD/RESERVE
PERSON TYPE NAME ACTIVE - GUARD/RESERVE
MEMBER NAME MORELAND WHITT LLOYD
MEMBER SERVICE CODE Marine Corps
MEMBER SERVICE NAME MARINE CORPS
MEMBER RANK OR RATE PFC PRIVATE FIRST CLASS
MEMBER PAYGRADE E02 E1-E4
MEMBER BIRTHDATE 19300307
KOREAN WAR
MEMBER UNIT H&S CO 1 BN 5 MAR 1 MAR DIV H&S CO 1 BN
INCIDENT OR DEATH DATE  05/29/1951
OPERATION INCIDENT COMBAT
OPERATION/INCIDENT NAME KOREAN WAR
CLOSURE DATE 19510529 05/29/1951
Hostile Death
KILLED IN ACTION
REMAINS RECOVERED Y Body Remains Recovered

 
Erwin Sybrant (1920 -1990)  and Bob Verville (1923- 1995) buried in the Pencil Bluff Cemetery.

May 2012

'For The Fallen'

With proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children,
England mourns for her dead across the sea.
Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of spirit,
Fallen in the cause of the free.
Solemn the drums thrill: Death august and royal
Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres.
There is music in the midst of desolation
And a glory that shines upon our tears.
They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted,
They fell with their faces to the foe.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
They mingle not with laughing comrades again;
They sit no more at familiar tables of home;
They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;
They sleep beyond England's foam.
But where our desires are and our hopes profound,
Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight,
To the innermost heart of their own land they are known
As the stars are known to the Night;
As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust,
Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain,
As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness,
To the end, to the end, they remain.

Laurence Binyon (1869-1943)

'In Flanders Fields'

In Flanders Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid the guns below.

We are the Dead. Short days ago
We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved, and were loved, and new we lie
In Flanders Fields

Take up our quarrel with the foe;
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders Fields

John McCrae
written in 1915

The following is from The Minister of Veterans Affairs (Canada) Cat. No: V32-1272
John McCrae was born in Guelph, Ontario, November 30, 1872. His illustrious career could certainly not have been foreseen at that time. However, his father, David, and his mother, Jane, both born in Scotland, must have relished the fact that their second son had come into the world on St. Andrew's Day.  In 1899 he enlisted as a Lieutenant in the Canadian Artillery for service in the South African War. He wrote several poems during the South African campaign probably the most well-known being 1906 poem 'The Unconquered Dead'.

When the thunder of the guns in Europe reverberated in the 1914 August nights, John McCrae immediately volunteer his services to his country either as a doctor or a gunner. He achieved both desires as he was appointed surgeon to the 1st Brigade Artillery which was lead by his old comrade-in-arms (E.W.B. Morrison) from South Africa. He would often direct the fire of the batteries in his sector when time permitted and when there was a lull in his duties as a doctor.

The brigade was in position in Flanders in the spring of 1915, within sight of the village of Ypres and John McCrae had his dressing station on the banks of the Ypres Canal. It was here that he wrote 'In Flanders Fields'; the poem that was literally born of fire and blood during the heaviest fighting of the second battle of Ypres. From his dressing station he could see - day by day- the crosses springing up in the Canadian cemetery.

In Boulogne, on January 28, 1918, Colonel John McCrae died of pneumonia. He was buried on January 29th with full military honors at the cemetery in nearby Wimereux. In the funeral cortege, his horse Bonfire went first, led two grooms and decked in the regulation white ribbons.

Veterans Burial Benefits ph 1-800-697-6947 to inquire about the veterans headstone and grave marker program. Most of the markers go to recently deceased veterans, the tombstone and marker project also provides stones to replace those that have been lost, damaged or destroyed. It takes about a year for a headstone to be carved and shipped. Families may choose either granite or marble headstones, or a brass marker and the headstone or marker may be upright or flat. Requires documentation of a veteran's service, filling out a few papers and someone to show where the grave is located. This Federal program tries to ensure that no veteran's grave goes unmarked includes Civil and Revolutionary War veterans.

Local history studies can illuminate national and international historical events.
A school assignment : Ask students to select one soldier from the war memorial in the local town and research that soldier's life and wartime service.

Vietnam

George C. Burrow of Norman never actually made it to Vietnam. He was in an airplane crash on the way. He had just gotten married not long before he left. The plane slammed into a mountain.

Clio Curtis Featherston, Jr.
From Mendocino County, California
Home Record: Multiple counties. Fair Oaks, California.
Specialty Field Artillery Basic
Branch US Army
Rank / Rate: SP4 Army  [Specialist Four]
Group I Field Force Vietnam, 6th Battalion, 84th Artillery, C Battery
DOB 22 July 1947. Born in Mount Ida, Montgomery County, Arkansas.
His family later moved to the area of Sutter County, California. He was drafted into the Army. Entered the service via Selective Service. Served during the Vietnam War. He began his tour on May 25, 1968. Featherston had the rank of Specialist Four. His military occupation or specialty was Field Artillery Basic. Service number assignment was 56835686. Attached to I Field Force Vietnam, 6th Battalion, 84th Artillery, C Battery. Clio is honored on the Vietnam Veteran's Memorial in Washington DC. Name inscribed at VVM Wall, Panel 32w, Line 54.
Army Specialist Four Featherston experienced a traumatic event which ultimately resulted in loss of life on February 18, 1969. Died through non-hostile action, accident. Incident location: South Vietnam, Darlac province.

Ernest Leroy Garner
Staff Sergeant
A CO, 1ST BN, 5TH CAVALRY, 1ST CAV DIV, USARV
Army of the United States
Wickes, Polk County, Arkansas
May 28, 1948 to June 21, 1970
ERNEST L GARNER is on the Wall at Panel W9, Line 76

David Lee Hubbard, Jr is on the Vietnam Virtual Wall at Panel 1E, Line 118 photo photo
Home of Record: Chelsea, Rogers County, Oklahoma
Staff Sergeant. Grade at loss: E5
ID No: 17441062
33RD AIR BASE SQDN, 33RD TAC GROUP, 13TH AF, United States Air Force
Length Service: 08
Incident & Casualty Date : 05/16/1965
Age at Loss: 27    October 26, 1937 to May 16, 1965
Location: Gia Dinh Province, South Vietnam
Casualty Type: Non-hostile, died of other causes
Casualty Reason: Ground casualty accident
Remains: Body recovered
David is buried at Chelsea Cemetery, Chelsea, Rogers County, OK.

WORLD WAR TWO

PFC Charley Arthur Adcock Jr.
Born 22 Aug 1925 Montgomery County, Arkansas
DIED 16 Dec 1944 (aged 19) Germany
BURIAL County Line Cemetery, Montgomery County, Arkansas
MEMORIAL ID 9616684  photo

Walter P. Anderson
Tech 4-G, of Moro, Arkansas, s/o Mr and Mrs Bill Anderson of Moro, Ark. Walter was killed in action on Attu Island, Alaska. Walter was born near Oden on October 26, 1918. His parents moved to Lee County when he was nine years old. He entered the Army in September 1940; being a nephew of Clarence Hopson of Oden and had visited here just prior to entering the army.
Walter P Anderson Oct. 26 1918 - May 19 1943
Tec 4 Inf 17 Div. WWII
Buried in Lee County, AR
Remembered on the Montgomery County War Memorial in Mount Ida, AR.

Robert Jackson Bohannon (14 March 1924 - 24 March 1944) (aged 20) name is on the Montgomery County War Memorial in Mount Ida.
He has two memorials on find a grave. Hopper Cemetery and Tablets of the Missing, Florence American Cemetery and Memorial, Florence, Italy.
Service No. 18219153. He volunteered, enlisting at Little Rock.
Four years of high school. Born in 1924. S/o W.J. and Georgia Bohannon, he was a Staff Sergeant, U.S. Army Air/Corps, U.S. Army Air Forces. Served as B-24 Radio Operator/Gunner in the 720th Bomber Squadron, 450th Bomber Group, (Heavy), 47th Wing, 15th Air Force, United States Army, Manduria, Italy, #25, Army Air Base. Missing in Action over Gulf of Venezia, Italy, on Friday March 24, 1944.
Awards: Air Medal with 2 Oak Leaf Clusters, Purple Heart
Memorialized at: Florence American Cemetery
His mother was Georgia Lee Horn Bohannon, the daughter of George Tolbert "Tollie" Horn and Maggie Hopper Horn.
His father William J. "Bill" Bohannon of Hopper was killed almost instantly in the doorway of the cellar at the Bohannon home about 4 a.m. Thursday, September 27th 1951 when he was struck by lightening during a storm. Mr. Bohannon was born in Hopper on March 5, 1892 and had lived in that community all his life.
Siblings of Robert:
William Fay of Norman. US Army veteran served in the European Theater. Jan. 22, 1948, married Eloise Brakefield. A teacher at Norman and Murfreesboro.
Holland of Glenwood
Ruby of Hopper

24 March 1944: This morning started with cold and snow but soon became bright. The target briefed was the Wazlergrwerk Ball Bearing plant at Steyr, Austria. Our planes got off on schedule with the 10 X 500 G.P. bomb load. The weather and visibility were poor and the second attack unit turned back before Major Snaith leading in a 720th plane, turned to an alternate target. Our squadron was in the first attack unit. In a battle with enemy fighters 2nd Lt. Hodgson, pilot, and his crew were shot down into the sea near Pola, Italy.
Sixteen enemy aircraft engaged the group as we drove in on Rimuni, Italy, on 24 March. The enemy attacked in groups of four or five from five to seven o'clock, low. Our wing ships were attacked by elements of three abreast, level, from three and nine o'clock, and broke off to rear; and from front through three and nine o'clock. One ME 110 seemed to act as fire control ship. JU 88's came from three and nine o'clock to fire rockets. One of our aircraft was shot down by the enemy.
Losses in Action
2nd Lt. Ralph G. Hodgson Jr and his crew became missing in action during the raid over Steyr, Austria on 24 March 1944. Following is the list of his crew members: 2nd Lt Merrill W. McKinley, 2nd Lt Richard F. Hackel, 2nd Lt Samuel R. Sprott Jtr., S/Sgt Maurice W. Moore, S/Sgt Robert L. [sic] Bohannon, S/sgt Robert L. Morgan, S/Sgt Alfred P. Russo, S/Sgt Cyril G. Heineman, Sgt (NMI) Heyman.

George Washington Cearley 1903-1946
O-922097
Captain
Buried Joplin, AR. FAG

His brother Private John L Cearley, 28 1 Div.,  1894 -1918 aged 24, was killed in France in WW1 and is also buried at Joplin Cemetery. FAG

Sgt. Charles R. Featherston
13 Mar 1919 B B Junction, Montgomery County, Arkansas, USA
DEATH 1 Dec 1944 (aged 25) Germany
BURIAL Thompson Chapel Cemetery, Amity, Clark County, Arkansas
Findagrave Parents Robert Andrew Featherston and Martha Cornelia nee Wright. Wife Geneva.

Clyde E Featherston
From Montgomery County, Arkansas photo
Born October 16, 1923
Death September 21, 1944
War World War II
ID 18135839
Rank Sergeant
Branch US Army
Group 101st Airborne Division, 502nd Parachute Infantry Regiment
Cause Hostile, Killed in Action
Location Holland during Operation Market Garden
Buried at Plot A Row 3 Grave 30, Netherlands American Cemetery, Margraten, Netherlands. This is an American Battle Monuments Commission location.
He graduated from Norman High School in 1941 and enlisted in the army after graduating. Shortly after D-day he fought in France and was unharmed and returned to England for a short time before he parachuted into Holland with the 101st Airborne Division as part of Operation Market Garden. He was shot by a German sniper.

PFC Walter Guthrey 38355813
Buried at Black Springs Cemetery, Montgomery Co. AR
Walter A. Guthrey reported killed in Germany Dec. 5. KIA
Walter Ashbury Guthrey, 31 years old was killed in Germany December 4, according to a message from the war department to his wife, at Black Springs Sunday. Walter was born at Black Springs, the son of Mr. and Mrs. W.H. Guthrey, where he attended and finished school, and grew to manhood. After finishing school he did farm work, until he joined the CCC camp in 1938. After leaving this work he returned to the home and assisted his mother in carrying on the farm work. His father died when Walter was a small boy. He and Miss Lodie Hays were married April 12, 1942, and a daughter, Laverne, was born to them in 1943. Walter joined the armed forces December 5, 1942 and received training at Camp Howze, Texas and Claiborne, La. He was sent overseas in October, this year. Besides his wife, daughter and mother, he is also survives by two brothers, Cpl. Stuart Guthrey, some where in France, and W.H. of Black Springs, also one sister, Goldie, of the home. 

HAWKER WALDROP H 17031932 PFC DNB
When Waldrop Harmon Hawker was born on 17 June 1923, in Arkansas, his father, William Harmon Hawker, was 47 and his mother, Emma Christine Waldrop, was 30. He lived in Leola, Grant County, Arkansas, in 1935 and in 1940. He registered for military service in 1941. He died on 3 June 1943, at the age of 19, and was buried in Black Springs Cemetery, Black Springs, Montgomery County, Arkansas.

PFC Woodrow Wilson Hodges Oct. 21 1918 - Nov. 3 1944
Branch of Service: U.S. Army
Enlisted June 12th 1942.
Serial number: 38177836.  3 means Arkansas and 8 means he was inducted.
ARK PFC 323 Inf. Company E
Status: KIA
His bronze marker was ordered by his father Joe Hodges 28 April 1949 and shipped to Quinton Laird in Waldron, Arkansas.
His name is on the Mount Ida War Memorial but spelled incorrectly. Hodge should read Hodges.
Pfc Woodrow Wilson Hodges,
Born 21 Oct 1918 in Cedar Creek, Scott Co., Arkansas
Never married.
Son of Joseph C. "Joe" Hodges and Leah (Palmerton) Hodges (both buried at Mt. Ida)
Brother of Elmer Edward Hodges, Ruby H. (Hodges) Laird, Juliah Berniece (Hodges) Whittington-Henry, William R. Hodges died in 1940, buried in Mt. Ida (twin to Woodrow), Seldon Arlis Hodges and J. C. Hodges
Died 3 Nov 1944 at age 26 in Peleliu Island, Palau Islands (east of the Philippines- between the Philippines and Guam). He was among the 1,505 killed in action during the 73-day-long battle, one of the bloodiest in the Pacific campaign. 6348 wounded, marines and 81st Division. By October 15, the 7th Marines had suffered 46% casualties and General Geiger relieved them with the 5th Marines. On October 30, the 81st Infantry Division took over command of Peleliu, taking another six weeks, to reduce The Pocket. On November 27, 1944 the island was declared secure. A Japanese lieutenant with twenty-six Infantry soldiers and eight sailors held out in the caves in Peleliu until April 22, 1947, and surrendered after a Japanese admiral convinced them the war was over. Woodrow W. Hodges body was returned to Arkansas for burial.
Woodrow was buried at the Mount Ida Cemetery, Mount Ida.  ID FAG 38602847

PFC Alvin J. Irons
BIRTH 19 Sep 1924
Montgomery County, Arkansas
DEATH 25 January 1945 (aged 20) KIA France
BURIAL Rocky Cemetery, Sims, Montgomery County, AR
Alvin was inducted into service on 24 Mar 1944. He had been in service less than a year, and had been overseas less than four months.
3rd Battalion, 7th Infantry Regiment, U.S. Army. FAG 7183383
.

James Reed McCool born b. 1919

1940 US Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kickapoo.
1942 Feb. married at Glenwood, AR but Reed was living in Mount Ida when he married in 1942.
1943 April 10th enlisted at Little Rock, was a resident of Hot Spring County. 5ft 10, 185lbs.
Occupation: A skilled sawmill worker.
Education: Highest level - grammar school
1944 Died 12 Sept.
1944 Nov 30, son James R. McCool born.
Both buried Mount Ida, Arkansas.  DBN Died Non Battle Wounds.
Hot Spring County
MCCOOL JAMES R, Army service No. 38505366 TEC5 DNB DEATH NOT BATTLE RELATED
James Reed McCool (13 Mar 1919 - 12 Sep 1944) (aged 25) is buried in the Mount Ida Cemetery, Montgomery Co., has a military headstone. He is also listed on the Pike County War Memorial. His wife Thelma and their only child and namesake are buried there too. James R. McCool (30 Nov 1944 - 18 Dec 2009) (aged 65) He never got to meet his father who had died in Sept. 1944, two and a half months before he was born.
J R McKool [sic] of Mount Ida, Montgomery Co., Arkansas, age 22 married, 6 Feb 1942, Miss Thelma Parton age 21 of Glenwood. Married by W.E. Neil. Witnesses: Benie Jean Parton, J.R. McCool, Thelma Parton, H.R. Womack. Foy Cagle was the county clerk in Pike Co., AR. Thelma McCool (1918-2001) never remarried and was buried at Mount Ida Cemetery.
Lora Davis McCool married Harvey "Harve" McCool of Malvern, AR. Children were Reed, Juanita, Elmo & Sarah. Elmo McCool, age 91, died November 29, 2015. He was born August 23, 1924, in Malvern, the son of the late Harve and Lora Davis McCool. Elmo served in the United States Marines during World War II and was a ground soldier in the Pacific.
Photo of James McCool courtesy Pike County Archives & History Society. His name is on the Pike County War Memorial, Murfreesboro.

Loyd James “Jasper” McKinney
BIRTH 3 Feb 1913
DEATH 4 Mar 1944 (aged 31)
BURIAL Diggs Cemetery, Caddo Gap, Montgomery County. FAG

PFC. Hovell Maddox
Mena Star, Feb. 14, 1949
    Funeral service for Pfc. Hovell Maddox, son of Mr. And Mrs. Demp Maddox of Norman, Ark., who was killed in action with the U.S. Marine Corps while serving with Company G, 2nd Bn, Seventh Marine Division, June 12, 1945, on Okinawa island in the South Pacific, and who was 18½ years old at the time of death. The service was held Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the Black Springs Baptist church with Rev. C.P. Cowart, pastor of the Norman Baptist Church, officiating. Burial at Black Springs Cemetery was directed by the Beasley-Wood Funeral Home.
    The pallbearers were Eugene Sanders, Albert Arnold, Victor Cox, Isom Cowart, Jurdon Hays, and Earl Reecer.
    Born at Norman, Ark., November 27, 1926, Maddox enlisted in the Marine Corps March 10, 1944. He was a member of the Baptist Church. Serving at his side at the time Maddox was killed, was Eugene Sanders of Mena who served as a pallbearer at the re-burial and, after folding, presented Maddox’s mother with the American flag which draped his casket during the ceremonies. Besides his parents, the veteran of World War II is survived by three sisters, Mrs. A.B. Cory, Placerville, Calif.; Mrs. H.L. Hicks, Norman, Ark; Mrs. P.G. Black, Black Springs, Ark; a brother Fayte Maddox, Acampo, Calif; and several nieces and nephews. headstone.

James H Simpson
From Montgomery County, Arkansas
War World War II
ID 38444351
Rank Private
Branch US Army
Cause DOW - Died of Wounds
headstone

Cpl. Ernest E. Smith
17th Inf. WW11
Feb. 15 1916 - May 29 1943
Joplin Cemetery, Montgomery County, AR
Remembered on the Montgomery County War Memorial in Mount Ida, AR.
https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/38795206/ernest-e-smith
Cpl. Ernest Smith of Silver was awarded the Bronze Star medal posthumously at Camp Robinson, Little Rock on Friday March 2. His mother Mrs Louella Smith was asked to accept the award on his behalf by Col. G.C. Graham. The award is being made in recognition of his heroic actions against the enemy during the Attu operation on May 29 and 30, 1943. Cpl. Smith with complete disregard for his own personal safety and entirely upon his own initiative, moved to an exposed position under heavy fire only 25 yards from the enemy. He remained in this position, firing his rifle until the possession of the anti-tank gun regained. He was also instrumental in destroying an enemy command post with heavy machine gun fire and grenades. On May 30, during another enemy counter-attack, Cpl. Smith was killed in action while endeavoring to stop the enemy before his position. Attu Island is the westernmost point of the U.S. state of Alaska. He was initially buried at Attu's Little Falls Cemetery. Little Falls Cemetery was located near the foot of Gilbert Ridge, to the north and west of the old Navy Base (Navy Town). In 1946, the Americans remains were removed and buried either in other locations as designated by their relatives or at Fort Richardson near Anchorage, AK. There are no visible signs of the cemetery today and the island has been uninhabited since 2010. Walter P. Anderson was also KIA on Attu.

Hoyt Smith 1920 - 1944
SMITH, Hoyt, Aviation Machinist's Mate First Class, 3468209, USN, from Arkansas
Hoyt Smith, s/o Ross and Mollie Smith. Hoyt joined the Navy and would send money back home to help his parents and siblings.
Entered the Service From: Arkansas
Rank: Aviation Machinist's Mate
Service: U.S. Navy, United States Navy
Missing: Friday November 24, 1943
Memorialized at: Honolulu Memorial, HI, USA
Awards: Purple Heart
Wife: Mrs. Genevieve Ida Smith, 6748 So. Throop St., Chicago
Memorial: Mount Ida Cemetery, Montgomery Co. AR

USS Liscome Bay
Liscome Bay (CVE 56, class escort carrier, hull No. 56), Coral Sea and Corregidor - were steaming 20 miles SW of Butaritari Island at 15 knots. She was assigned supporting the invasion of Makin, in the Gilberts. On Friday 24 November, Liscome Bay went to routine general quarters as flight crews prepared their planes for dawn launchings. There was no warning of a submarine in the area, when a torpedo, from the Japanese submarine I-175, struck abaft the after engine room and hit the aircraft bomb stockpile, causing a major explosion engulfing the entire vessel and sending shrapnel out 5,000 yards. At 0533, Liscome Bay listed to starboard and sank, Captain Wiltsie and the famous Pearl Harbor survivor Cook Third Class Doris Miller, down with her. Only 272 of her crew of 916 were rescued by Morris, Hughes and Hull. She sank in 23 minutes with the loss of 644 men.
    Granville Davis in "The Fighting Men of Arkansas" wrote [pg 82] Escort carriers are made-over merchantmen and were never intended to be used as front line fighting ships. Without speed and without heavy guns they had to depend on their planes for protection.

World War One
Frank ALEXANDER died October 15, 1918. I found him on the Montgomery War Memorial in Mount Ida and findagrave. I don't think Frank had a family connection to Montgomery County. He was probably one of the many young single men who came into Montgomery County as a prospector during the silver boom. In 1910 census records show he was 20 years old and living in Tishomingo Co., Mississippi. Sometime after that census in 1910 he may have decided to try his hand at prospecting for silver. That was what a lot of young men were doing during the silver boom. When he registered for the draft in 1914 he was living at Silver in Montgomery County and his occupation was farmer. He may have given up on prospecting and decided to farm because that is the occupation he listed on his draft card when he registered.
Frank Alexander born January 1890 Jan 1890 Iuka, Tishomingo Co., Mississippi
From Montgomery County, Arkansas
Death October 15, 1918
Rank Private US Army
Group 113th Infantry Regiment, 29th Division
Killed in Action in France
Purple Heart and World War I Victory Medal
BURIAL Arlington National Cemetery

Clark B. Coffman
Rank: Private
Serial Number:
Unit:16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division
Date of Death:1918-07-22
State: Arkansas
Cemetery: Hopper Cemetery  fag
Clark B. Coffman was born on August 6, 1897. He enlisted in the Army on July 3, 1917. He served in the U.S. Army during World War I as a Private in Company F, 16th Infantry Regiment, 1st Infantry Division. He died from his wounds received in battle on July 22, 1918 and is now buried in Hopper Cemetery, Arkansas, USA. His name is inscribed on the Buzancy monument as PVT C G COFFMAN CO F. He is not listed on the Mount Ida War Memorial.

Henry Vander Curtis
Sims, Montgomery, Arkansas
Birth 22 February 1894 born Story, AR.
Occupation: Farming
Medium height. Medium build. Blue eyes. Light brown hair. Robert Watkins registrar.
Private US Army 1 Div.
Death 28 August 1918  Killed in action
Buried Reed Cemetery, Story, AR

Sherman HORN
Photo of Sherman Horn is at the Heritage House Museum of Montgomery County in Mount Ida.
John Sherman Horn b. 29 April 1896, Caddo Gap, oldest s/f Calvin Jarrett (Tip) and Temperance Josephine Welch Horn, of Caddo Gap.
Private, U.S. Army, 23rd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division
Died: July 19, 1918, aged 22
Buried at: Plot B Row 32 Grave 37, Oise-Aisne American Cemetery, Fere-en-Tardenois, in northern France, approx. 70 miles NE of Paris.

Jim Lee Qualls (February. 22, 1893 -August 5, 1918)
Private US Army
Ark Pvt Inf. 32 Div. WW1
KIA
Jim was born Feb. 22, 1893, s/o George W. and Dora Temple Qualls. He attended the Pleasant Hill school near Story. He received is 1-A classification January 9, 1918 and landed overseas July 15, 1918. He was an infantryman in the American Expeditionary Force and was killed in action October 11th, 1918, in France. He was 25.  He is buried in the Reed Cemetery.

Hyram Drayton Rains, Caddo Gap inducted in Oklahoma. Private 2217657. Co. M 39 Inf. DOD Sept. 26 1918. Born 6 Sept. 1889 Caddo Gap.
Oct 3/17 Transferred as Pvt fr Pvt 1c1 4th Div Causal Det Mch 11/18 per VOCG 90th Div Mch. Died 9th October 1918 (aged 29), KIA
Parents: Henry Warren Rains and Jane Lavina Rains (born Newman).

Arthur Ray Wallace born 24 December 1885 Mt Ida, Ark. Died 7 February 1918. AS USN

The 32nd Division in the World War, 1917-1919 transcribed by George Taylor; Newspaper article.
WEEKS, GEORGE Thomas, PVT Co., G 128 INF KIA 9/1/18 WOMBLE
NOK: Father: John William Weeks.
From Polk County, AR

Montgomery County ArkansasGenWeb Project