Henry William Bogrette, age 21, from Richville, New York, St Lawrence county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Clr-27, (Clb 6, 2D Mlg Fwd, Ii Mef Fwd), 2D Mlg, Camp Lejeune, North Carolina
Date of death: Thursday, March 22, 2007
Death details: Hostile; Ivo Camp Fallujah, Iraq
Source: Department of Defense, Legacy.com
Nicholas Joseph Sovie, age 20, from Ogdensburg, New York, St Lawrence county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: Hmh-464, Mag-29, 2D Maw, Mcas New River, Jacksonville, Nc
Date of death: Friday, February 17, 2006
Death details: , Helicopter crash in Gulf Of Aden
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times,
Chad Edward Fuller, age 24, from Potsdam, New York, St Lawrence county.
Service era: Iraq
Military history: B Co 1St Bn 87Th Infantry Regiment, Fort Drum, New York
Date of death: Sunday, August 31, 2003
Death details: Hostile; Shkin, Afghanistan
Source: Department of Defense, Military Times
Edward Dale Burkett, age 22, from Pottsdam, New York, Saint Lawrence county.
Parents: Harry Burkett
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Thursday, November 26, 1970
Death details: Non-hostile, South Vietnam
Source: National Archives, Fort Worth Star Telegram (1970)
Archie Edward Trimm, age 21, from Colton, New York, St. Lawrence county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Friday, June 5, 1970
Death details: Died when the ammunition dump he was guarding was blown up.
Cemetery: Methodist in Colton
Source: National Archives, Syracuse Post Standard (1970)
Kenneth Frank Backus from Pyrites, New York, St. Lawrence county.
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: May 22, 1967
Death details: On May 22, 1967, an F-4C Phantom II (tail number 64-0708, call sign “Whizzer 02”) with two crew members departed Ubon Royal Thai Air Force Base as the lead aircraft in a flight of two on a strike mission against enemy targets in North Vietnam. During the mission, the wingman observed “Whizzer 02” execute a normal bomb run on the target despite intense enemy anti-aircraft fire. The bombs hit the target, but seconds later the wingman saw a large explosion approximately three miles from the target in the vicinity of (GC) 48Q XJ 460 516 in Lang Son Province. No parachutes were seen to exit the aircraft before the explosion and no rescue beepers were heard following the crash. Enemy presence in the area prevented immediate ground searches of the crash site to locate either crew member. However, a joint U.S. and Vietnamese effort later recovered and identified the remains of the aircraft commander.
First Lieutenant Kenneth Frank Backus, who joined the U.S. Air Force from New York, served with the 497th Tactical Fighter Squadron. He was the pilot of the Phantom when it crashed, and his remains were not recovered.
Source: National Archives, Department of Defense
Vern Elwin Richer, age 33, from Ogdensburg, New York, Saint Lawrence county.
Service era: Vietnam
Military history: B Battery, 11th Artillery
Date of death: Monday, August 14, 1961
Death details: Among three soldiers killed when their car hit into two culverts north of Clarksville, Tennessee
Source: Nashville Banner (1961)
Rolland Bouchard, age 25, from Saint Lawrence County Morristown, New York .
Parents: Bernadette Bouchard
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Thursday, July 20, 1950
Death details: On July 20, 1950, the 3rd Battalion of the U.S. 34th Infantry Regiment, 24th Infantry Division, was holding a defensive line in South Korea overlooking the Taejon Airport, northeast of the city. When enemy tanks broke through the line near the airport, U.S. troops were ordered to fall back through Taejon. The 3rd Battalion was ordered to lead the convoy out of Taejon, but ran into a series of collapsed structures and roadblocks that broke up the column. U.S. forces were unable to break through these roadblocks, and to avoid capture soldiers moved off-road and began filtering through the countryside in small groups. Sergeant First Class Rolland Bouchard entered the U.S. Army from New York and served in the Headquarters Company of the 63rd Field Artillery Battalion, 24th Infantry Division. He went missing in action on or before July 20, during the withdrawal from Taejon, though the exact details surrounding his loss are unknown. He was never reported to be alive in enemy hands, and his remains were not recovered or identified following the war. Today, Sergeant First Class Bouchard memorialized on the Courts of the Missing at the National Memorial Cemetery of the Pacific. His name is also inscribed on the Korean War Veterans Memorial Wall in Washington, DC, which was updated in 2022 to include the names of the fallen.
Source: National Archives, Associated Press (1954), Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency
Wallace E. Hough from New York, St. Lawrence county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Thursday, January 11, 1945
Death details: Killed in action
Cemetery: Zachary Taylor National
Source: National Archives, grave marker
Richard P. Washburn from New York, St. Lawrence county.
Service era: World War II
Date of death: Saturday, November 25, 1944
Death details: Finding of death
Cemetery: Zachary Taylor National
Source: National Archives, grave marker