Sanders County Military, Fallen or Missing in Action

Compiled by Annie Elizabeth Sloan (1911-2004) of Thompson Falls, Montana

 

World War I

 

Name

Hometown

Branch of  Service

Birth Date

Death Date

Death Place

Malcom K. Crabtree

Camas

Army

 

August 1918

France

Hershal V. Edwards

Larchwood

Marines

1893

21 November 1918

France

Frank Leiberg Eplin

Larchwood

Marines

27 September 1897

12 November 1918

France

Earl W. Green

Whitepine

Army

1 September 1875

27 October 1918

Vancouver, Washington

Edward Guyette

Perma

Canadian Services

1885

8 September 1918

Killed in action

Clarence Melvin Hagel

Trout Creek

Army

28 April 1895

11 October 1918

France

Henry Helman

ThompsonFalls

Army

23 October 1882

25 August 1918

France

Simon Hoye

Lonepine

Army

10 December 1878

April//May 1919

Belgium

Albert Knowles

Thompson Falls

Army

 

1918

France

John William Knowles

ThompsonFalls

Army

22 October 1887

January 1919

France

Guy Lovell

Plains

Army

 

January 1918

France

McDonald

Hot Springs

Army

 

November/
December 1917

France

James Keith McCullum

Dixon

Army

24 February 1894

14 November 1918

France

John C. Palmer

Plains

Army Cavalry

7 August 1900

12 October 1918

Camp Taylor, Kentucky

John Robb

ThompsonFalls

Army

31 January 1896

7 November 1919

France

Leo Ernest Snavely

 

Army Air Force

16 August 1891

25 January 1919

VancouverWashington

James Arthur Stobie

Plains

Army

28 December 1890

5 June 1919

Gassed in France

F. W. Triska

Dixon

Army

   

Died in Action

 

World War II 

 

Name

Hometown

Branch of Service

Birth Date

Death Date

Death Place

Albert Edward Airhart

Plains

Navy

 

7 December 1943

Missing in Action

Richard L. Atkins

Lonepine

Marines

 

20 November 1943

Tarawa, South Pacific

George S. Baldwin

Plains

Army

 

16 December 1944?

Missing in Action

Wilmar “Buddy” Bauer

Camas Prairie

Navy

 

March 1947

Off Hawaii

Delmar Borders

Lonepine

Air Corps

14 May 1918

4 August 1943

Off coast of Italy

Eldon Borders

Lonepine

Army

11 May 1916

6 December 1943

Italy

Clinton J. Brown

Trout Creek

Navy

18 March 1927

24 August 1945

San Diego, California

Kenneth Brust

Plains

Army

 

31 December 1944

Germany

George Dwight Butler

Plains

Navy

4 February 1920

24 October 1944

Pacific Ocean as prisoner

James Kane Carter

Plains

Air Force

1925

February 1945

English Channel

Ernest Perle Cline

Thompson Falls

Army

 

15 September 1942

Corregidor

Bernard Sherman Cluzen

Lonepine

Marines

16 June 1917

8 October 1944

Marshall Islands

Harvey Francis Corn, Jr.

Noxon

Army

24 September 1921

March 1945

Florence, Italy

Lowell A. Davis

       

Killed in Action

Lawrence
Deffenbaugh

Plains

 

29 December 1909

29 May 1943

Attu Island, Alaska

William A. Dungen

Plains

Army

21 June 1918

16 March 1944

Manus Islands

Glen S. Farrell

 

Army

 

27 January 1943

BrownwoodTexas

Thomas H. Frolin

Niarada

Army

 

8 July 1943

Leavenworth, Kansas

Ford L. Geer

Plains

Army

13 December 1924

21 October 1944

Italy

William Ward Grant

ThompsonFalls

Navy

28 November 1918

11 September 1943

Mediterranean near Malta

Norbert Hans

Hot Springs

Army

 

8 December 1944

Germany

Howard James Hill

Trout Creek

Army

16 August 1924

15 July 1945

Camp Walters, Texas

Charles A. Hinote

Lonepine

Navy

15 October 1919

11 October 1944

Long Beach, California

George P. ‘Bud’ Hopkins

Paradise

Army Air Force

 

7 July 1945

Plane Crash over Texas

Chester Theodore Jameson

Plains

Marine

18 October 1924

19 February 1945

Iwo Jima

Herbert John Jewett

Noxon

Air Force

13 January 1919

28 May 1944

India/Burma

Ernest Claude Johnson

Plains

Navy

 

7 December 1942

Coral Sea

Keith Keirn

Hot Springs

Navy

 

4 July 1944

Hawaii

James G Knaggs

Thompson Falls

Army

 

9 April 1945

Luzon, Philippines

Earl John ‘Jack’ Massey

Hot Springs

Army

28 October 1918

October 1944

Pacific, Japanese POW

William Frank McCann

Trout Creek

Army

15 August 1921

12 September 1944

Salana Pass, Italy

Charles Frederick McCrea

Plains

Army

23 May 1926

30 April 1945

Philippines

Murrill O. ‘Merle’ McNeil

Noxon

Army

28 March 1925

30 March 1945

Cebu Island, Philippines

Donald Robert McSpadden

Noxon

Army

14 November 1922

16 March 1945

Koslenez, Germany

Melvin Mikkelson

Heron

Navy

   

MIA or POW

Gerald Moorison

Dixon

Army

     

Donald Freeman More

Hot Springs

Marines

15 November 1919

5 March 1945

Iwo Jima

John Palick

Noxon

Navy

   

Died on ship

Lester L. Regester

 

Army

     

Richard Scott

Hot Springs

Army

 

8 February 1945

PhilippinesPOW

Grover C. Shepherd

Plains

Army

 

20 November 1943

Africa

Bert R. Shuey, Jr.

Trout Creek

Navy

1922

12 August 1945

Submarine

Charles Rodney Turk

Thompson Falls

Army

26 May 1919

30 April 1945

Okinawa

Howard A. Whitney

Thompson Falls

Army

29 January 1915

11 December 1944

Germany

 

Korean War 

 

Name

Hometown

Branch of Service

Birth Date

Death Date

Death Place

Ray Alton Kemmerer

ThompsonFalls

Air Force

18 May 1932

6 June 1961

Shepherd Air Force Base, Texas

Donald B. Larkin

Noxon

Army

 

1 January 1958

Germany

Hugh P. Milleson

Thompson Falls

   

27 July 1950

Hadong, Korea

Dennis R. Palmer

Plains

Navy

6 April 1937

22 November 1959

 

Kenneth Soule, Jr.

Thompson Falls

Air Force

27 August 1937

26 January 1958

Yaak, Montana

 

Vietnam War

 

Name

Hometown

Branch of Service

Birth Date

Death Date

Death Place

Paul Edward Chavez

   

31 February 1925

5 May 1968

Vietnam

Timothy Gordon Cleveland

Plains

Army

14 October 1949

29 September 1970

Fort OrdCalifornia

William R. Eichert

Whitepine

Army

29 April 1946

10 September 1968

Killed on leave

Charles J. Hinchley

   

2 June 1939

16 December 1967

 

Donald Lacey

Trout Creek

Navy

13 March 1948

14 January 1969

Off coast Hawaii

Delmar Leon Lawrence

Cherry Creek

Navy

 

15 August 1968

 

Hima ‘Duffy’ McDougal Jr.

Thompson Falls

Army

1949

3 September 1970

Juli, Vietnam

John Mike Murphy

Thompson Falls

Army

30 October 1946

29 March 1968

Vietnam

Victor John Pirker

Whitepine

Marines

27 June 1940

22 November 1965

MIA Vietnam

James William Stephens

Thompson Falls

Marines

30 September 1945

13 September 1965

Vietnam

Roy Steven Thomas

Whitepine

Army

26 November 1946

10 May 1969

MIA Vietnam

 

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