Edward Pollard from Buckingham County Ore Banks, Virginia .
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Unknown
Death details: Died of disease, Camp Sherman, Chillicothe, Ohio
Source: Virginia Military Dead Database
Pollard, Edward
Geopard, Fred L
Private
Fred L Geopard from Campbell County Lynchburg, City of, Virginia .
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Unknown
Death details: Died of disease
Source: Virginia Military Dead Database
Germon, John
Army Cook
John Germon from Richmond County Richmond, Virginia .
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Unknown
Death details: Died of disease, Camp Lee, Petersburg, Virginia
Source: Virginia Military Dead Database
Frazier, Hugh Robert
Army Corporal
Hugh Robert Frazier from Halifax County Virgilina, Virginia .
Parents: Hugh R. Frazier
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Unknown
Death details: By mid-November 1950, U.S. and Allied forces had advanced to within approximately sixty miles of the Yalu River, the border between North Korea and China. On November 25, approximately 300,000 Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) “volunteers” suddenly and fiercely counterattacked after crossing the Yalu. The 2nd Infantry Division, located the farthest north of units at the Chongchon River, could not halt the CCF advance and was ordered to withdraw to defensive positions at Sunchon in the South Pyongan province of North Korea. As the division pulled back from Kunu-ri toward Sunchon, it conducted an intense rearguard action while fighting to break through well-defended roadblocks set up by CCF infiltrators. The withdrawal was not complete until December 1, and the 2nd Infantry Division suffered extremely heavy casualties in the process. Sergeant Hugh Robert Frazier joined the U.S. Army from Virginia and was a member of Headquarters Company, 1st Battalion, 9th Infantry Regiment, 2nd Infantry Division. On November 30, 1950, he was captured by enemy forces near Kunu-ri, as his unit made its fighting withdrawal toward Sunchon. SGT Frazier was marched to Camp 5 prison camp in Pyoktong, North Korea, where he died in April 1951. He was not identified among remains returned to U.S. custody after the war, and he is still unaccounted-for. Today, Sergeant Frazier is 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, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Richmond Times Dispatch (1951)
Hicks, Richard Conway
Army Sergeant
Richard Conway Hicks from Dinwiddie County Petersburg, Virginia .
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Unknown
Death details: By mid-November 1950, U.S. and Allied forces had advanced to within approximately sixty miles of the Yalu River, the border between North Korea and China. On November 25, approximately 300,000 Chinese Communist Forces (CCF) “volunteers” suddenly and fiercely counterattacked after crossing the Yalu. The 2nd Infantry Division, located the farthest north of units at the Chongchon River, could not halt the CCF advance and was ordered to withdraw to defensive positions at Sunchon in the South Pyongan province of North Korea. As the division pulled back from Kunu-ri toward Sunchon, it conducted an intense rearguard action while fighting to break through well-defended roadblocks set up by CCF infiltrators. The withdrawal was not complete until December 1, and the 2nd Infantry Division suffered extremely heavy casualties in the process. Sergeant First Class Richard Conway Hicks joined the U.S. Army from Virginia and was a member of Battery C, 503rd Field Artillery Battalion, 2nd Infantry Division. On December 1, 1950, he was captured by enemy forces near Somindong, North Korea, as his unit made its fighting withdrawal toward Sunchon. Returning prisoners of war reported that SFC Hicks died while in enemy custody in January of 1951, as a result of wounds he suffered in previous fighting. He was not identified among remains returned to U.S. custody after the war, and he is still unaccounted-for. Today, Sergeant First Class Hicks is 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, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Portsmouth Star (1951)
Ripley, James M
Army Private
James M Ripley from Virginia, Buckingham county.
Service era: Civil War
Military history: 56th Virginia Infantry
Date of death: July 4, 1862
Death details: Died of wounds, Chimborazo Hospital Richmond, Virginia
Source: Virginia Military Dead Database, Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia.