Bedford Boys

A Virtual Cemetery created by Greg Raike

19 memorials

Operation Overlord was the code name for the Battle of Normandy.  On June 6, 1944, Operation Neptune, commonly known as D-Day, began.32 Virginia Guard Soldiers from Bedford's Company A, 116th Infantry, 29th Division were part of the first wave of more than 160,000 Allied troops that landed along a 50-mile stretch of heavily-fortified French coastline to fight Nazi Germany and begin the march across Europe to defeat Hitler.  Company A assaulted Omaha Beach on the west end as part of the First Division's Task Force O and by the end of the day, 19 of the company's Bedford Soldiers were dead and two more died later in the Normandy campaign as did yet another two assigned to other 116th Infantry companies.  Bedford's population in 1944 was about 3,200, and proportionally the community suffered the nation's most severe losses on D-Day, as well as all of World War II.The Bedford County, Virginia Army National Guard soldiers who paid the ultimate sacrifice are:  <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=70733482">SSgt Leslie C Abbott Jr.</a>,  <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=70732108">PFC Wallace R. Carter</a>,  <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=70732570">PFC John D. Clifton</a>,  <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=70732764">T/Sgt Frank Price Draper Jr.</a>,  <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=70732811">Capt Taylor Nicholas Fellers</a>, <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=56644878">PFC Nick N. Gillaspie</a>,  <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=14150196">Pvt Bedford Turner Hoback</a>,  <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=56645658">SSgt Raymond S. Hoback</a>,  <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=56646817">Pvt Clifton G. Lee</a>, <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=56648537">SSG Earl L. Parker</a> , <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=56648929">PFC Jack G. Powers</a>,  <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=56649408">PFC Weldon Antonio Rosazza</a>,  <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=70732860">PFC John F. Reynolds</a>,  <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=56649679">SSgt John B. Schenk</a>,  <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=70732951">TSgt Ray O. Stevens</a>,  <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=70733049">Master Sgt John L. Wilkes</a>,  <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=67191160">SSgt Gordon H. White Jr.</a>, <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=56651672">SSgt Elmere P. Wright</a>,  <a href="http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=56651728">Sgt Grant C. Yopp</a>

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Leslie Comer Abbott
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7 Oct 1921 – 6 Jun 1944

Operation Overlord was the code name for the...

Bedford, Bedford County, Virginia, USA

Plot info: Block 49AB Lot C Space Ist NE

Wallace Reid Carter
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31 Jan 1923 – 6 Jun 1944

WORLD WAR II KIA Son of James Davis and Georgia...

Bedford, Bedford County, Virginia, USA

Plot info: Block 1, Lot 339, Space H

PFC John Daniel Clifton
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18 Jun 1923 – 6 Jun 1944

WORLD WAR II KIA Son of James Green and Minnie...

Bedford, Bedford County, Virginia, USA

Plot info: Block 1, Lot 31, Space D

Frank Price Draper Jr
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16 Sep 1918 – 6 Jun 1944

Operation Overlord was the code name for the...

Bedford, Bedford County, Virginia, USA

Plot info: Block 2 Lot 52 Space B

CPT Taylor Nicholas Fellers
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10 Jun 1914 – 6 Jun 1944

WORLD WAR II KIA Son of Peter Anson and Annie...

Bedford, Bedford County, Virginia, USA

Plot info: Block 1, Lot 166, Space A

PFC Nick Napoleon Gillaspie
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28 Mar 1918 – 6 Jun 1944

Operation Overlord was the code name for the...

Colleville-sur-Mer, Département du Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France

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Pvt Bedford Turner Hoback
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15 Sep 1913 – 6 Jun 1944

Killed in Action 6/6/1944 Normandy, France ...

Colleville-sur-Mer, Département du Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France

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SSgt Raymond Samuel Hoback
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21 Jan 1920 – 6 Jun 1944

Operation Overlord was the code name for the...

Colleville-sur-Mer, Département du Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France

Plot info: Garden of the Missing ~ Army-Air Forces Tablet 22 Line 08

PVT Clifton Glenwood Lee
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13 Aug 1917 – 6 Jun 1944

Operation Overlord was the code name for the...

Colleville-sur-Mer, Département du Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France

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SSGT Earl Lloyd Parker
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22 Jan 1914 – 6 Jun 1944

Operation Overlord was the code name for the...

Colleville-sur-Mer, Département du Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France

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PFC Jack Gilbert Powers
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18 Apr 1920 – 6 Jun 1944

Operation Overlord was the code name for the...

Colleville-sur-Mer, Département du Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France

Plot info: Plot H Row 2 Grave 18

John Franklin Reynolds
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13 Nov 1922 – 6 Jun 1944

Operation Overlord was the code name for the...

Bedford, Bedford County, Virginia, USA

Plot info: Block 1 Lot 141 Space E

PFC Weldon Antonio "Tony" Rosazza
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11 Sep 1921 – 6 Jun 1944

Operation Overlord was the code name for the...

Colleville-sur-Mer, Département du Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France

Plot info: Plot I Row 8 Grave 23

SSgt John Burwell Schenk
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13 Sep 1916 – 6 Jun 1944

Operation Overlord was the code name for the...

Colleville-sur-Mer, Département du Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France

Plot info: Section I, Row 14, Plot 20

Ray Okley Stevens
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12 Aug 1919 – 6 Jun 1944

Operation Overlord was the code name for the...

Bedford, Bedford County, Virginia, USA

Plot info: Block 1 Lot 139 Space G

Sgt Gordon Henry White Jr
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31 Dec 1921 – 6 Jun 1944

Operation Overlord was the code name for the...

Forest, Bedford County, Virginia, USA

John Lawrence Wilkes
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20 Jul 1919 – 6 Jun 1944

Operation Overlord was the code name for the...

Bedford, Bedford County, Virginia, USA

Plot info: Block 1 Lot 139 Space D

SSgt Elmere Price Wright
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11 Oct 1915 – 6 Jun 1944

Operation Overlord was the code name for the...

Colleville-sur-Mer, Département du Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France

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Sgt Grant Collins Yopp
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27 May 1923 – 6 Jun 1944

Operation Overlord was the code name for the...

Colleville-sur-Mer, Département du Calvados, Basse-Normandie, France

Plot info: Plot I Row 4 Grave 12

Bedford Boys

Leslie Comer Abbott Veteran V Sponsored Flowers have been left. Memorial ID

Wallace Reid Carter Veteran V Sponsored Flowers have been left. Memorial ID

PFC John Daniel Clifton Veteran V Sponsored Flowers have been left. Memorial ID

Frank Price Draper Jr Veteran V Sponsored Flowers have been left. Memorial ID

CPT Taylor Nicholas Fellers Veteran V Sponsored Flowers have been left. Memorial ID

PFC Nick Napoleon Gillaspie Veteran V Sponsored Flowers have been left. Memorial ID

Pvt Bedford Turner Hoback Veteran V Sponsored Flowers have been left. Memorial ID

SSgt Raymond Samuel Hoback Veteran V Sponsored Flowers have been left. Monument Memorial ID

PVT Clifton Glenwood Lee Veteran V Sponsored Flowers have been left. Memorial ID

SSGT Earl Lloyd Parker Veteran V Sponsored Flowers have been left. Monument Memorial ID

PFC Jack Gilbert Powers Veteran V Sponsored Flowers have been left. Memorial ID

John Franklin Reynolds Veteran V Sponsored Flowers have been left. Memorial ID

PFC Weldon Antonio "Tony" Rosazza Veteran V Sponsored Flowers have been left. Memorial ID

SSgt John Burwell Schenk Veteran V Sponsored Flowers have been left. Memorial ID

Ray Okley Stevens Veteran V Sponsored Flowers have been left. Memorial ID

Sgt Gordon Henry White Jr Veteran V Sponsored Flowers have been left. Memorial ID

John Lawrence Wilkes Veteran V Sponsored Flowers have been left. Memorial ID

SSgt Elmere Price Wright Veteran V Sponsored Flowers have been left. Memorial ID

Sgt Grant Collins Yopp Veteran V Sponsored Flowers have been left. Memorial ID

Leslie Comer Abbott
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Wallace Reid Carter
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PFC John Daniel Clifton
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Frank Price Draper Jr
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CPT Taylor Nicholas Fellers
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PFC Nick Napoleon Gillaspie
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Pvt Bedford Turner Hoback
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SSgt Raymond Samuel Hoback
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PVT Clifton Glenwood Lee
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SSGT Earl Lloyd Parker
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PFC Jack Gilbert Powers
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John Franklin Reynolds
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PFC Weldon Antonio "Tony" Rosazza
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SSgt John Burwell Schenk
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Ray Okley Stevens
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Sgt Gordon Henry White Jr
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John Lawrence Wilkes
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SSgt Elmere Price Wright
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Sgt Grant Collins Yopp
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