Tag: Belmont Massachusetts

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Curtis, Jonathan M.
Army Specialist

Jonathan M. Curtis, age 24, from Belmont, Massachusetts, Middlesex county.

Parents: Philip Curtis and Pamela Curtis
Spouse: Samantha Foust Curtis
Children: Tessa-Marie Curtis, 8 months

Service era: Afghanistan
Military history: 1st Battalion, 502nd Infantry Regiment, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault), Fort Campbell, Kentucky.

Date of death: Monday, November 1, 2010
Death details: Died in Kandahar, Afghanistan of wounds suffered when insurgents attacked his unit with an improvised explosive device. Pfc. Andrew N. Meari was also killed.
Cemetery: Highland West Memorial Gardens

Source: National Archives, Boston Globe

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Larson, Robert Merchant
Air Force 1st lieutenant

Robert Merchant Larson, age 23, from Belmont, Massachusetts, Middlesex county.

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Thursday, July 15, 1971
Death details: Hostile, South Vietnam

Source: National Archives, Boston Globe (1971)

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Chaves, John Clifford
Army Private 1st class

John Clifford Chaves, age 20, from Belmont, Massachusetts, Middlesex county.

Parents: Joseph U. Chaves

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: Saturday, April 11, 1970
Death details: Hostile, South Vietnam

Source: National Archives, Boston Globe (1970)

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Holmes, David Hugh
Air Force Lieutenant colonel

David Hugh Holmes, age 27, from Belmont, Massachusetts, Middlesex county.

Service era: Vietnam

Date of death: March 15, 1966

Spouse: Marilyn (Seiler) Holmes (married July 7, 1962). She was notified by letter in 1978 that he was presumed dead.

Children: Dennis, 2; Kelly, 3.

Parent: Albert Holmes
Death details: Captain David Hugh Holmes entered the U.S. Air Force from Massachusetts and served with the 22nd Tactical Air Support Squadron. On March 15, 1966, he was the pilot and sole occupant of an O-1E Bird Dog (tail number 56-2530, call sign “Hounddog 54”) when it took off from the Khe Sanh Special Forces camp on a forward air controller (FAC) mission over Laos. While in the mission area, his aircraft was hit by enemy ground fire and crashed in the vicinity of (GC) XD 214 536. A ground search team reached the crash site on the following day, but Capt Holmes’ remains were not found. He remains unaccounted-for. While carried in the status of missing in action, the U.S. Air Force promoted Capt Holmes to the rank of Lieutenant Colonel (Lt Col). Today, Lieutenant Colonel Holmes is memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific.

Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Billings Gazette (1978)