Peter M. Riley, age 23, from Woonsocket, Rhode Island, Providence county.
Service era: Cold War
Date of death: Thursday, December 16, 1982
Death details: Among 9 crew members killed when their B-52 bomber crashed in a pasture near Mather Air Force Base, California.
Cemetery: Saint Charles in Blackstone, Massachusetts
Source: Charlotte News (1983), Lead Daily Call (1983), Lincoln Star (1982), findagrave.com
Richard Mauric Beauregard, age 19, from Woonsocket, Rhode Island, Providence county.
Parents: Robert Beauregard
Service era: Vietnam
Date of death: Saturday, April 24, 1971
Death details: Non-hostile, South Vietnam
Cemetery: Saint Marys in Uxbridge, Massachusetts
Source: National Archives, findagrave.com, Boston Globe (1971)
James Patrick Shunney, age 19, from Woonsocket, Rhode Island, Providence county.
Service era: Korea
Date of death: Thursday, November 2, 1950
Death details: On March 2, 2016, the Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency (DPAA) identified the remains of Sergeant First Class James Patrick Shunney, missing from the Korean War. Sergeant First Class Shunney entered the U.S. Army from Rhode Island and served with Company I, 3rd Battalion, 8th Cavalry Regiment, 1st Cavalry Division. On November 2, 1950, he was with his company providing reinforcement to the 3rd Battalion near Unsan, North Korea, when elements of the Chinese Communist Forces struck the 1st Cavalry Division’s lines, collapsing the perimeter and forcing a withdrawal. SFC Shunney did not survive this combat, though the exact details surrounding his loss are unknown and his remains were not recovered at the time. In September and October 2000, joint U.S./North Korean investigative teams excavated a mass grave near Unsan and recovered human remains, and U.S. analysts eventually identified SFC Shunney from among these remains.
Source: National Archives, Defense POW/MIA Accounting Agency, Newport Daily News (1954)
Harold F. Flynn, age 24, from Woonsocket, Rhode Island, Providence county.
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Saturday, November 9, 1918
Death details: Killed in action
Cemetery: Meuse Argonne American
Source: Soldiers of the Great War, findagrave.com
Donat Giguere, age 23, from Providence County Woonsocket, Rhode Island .
Service era: World War I
Date of death: Sunday, September 22, 1918
Death details: Killed in action
Source: Soldiers of the Great War