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Gold Star Veterans

John Moore

Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Died of a heart attack. In the Army since World War I, he was in command of the 22nd Detachment, School Troops, Infantry School at the time of his death.

Age at Death: Unavailable

Image Source: Davidson College Bulletin

Bill McGinnis

Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Volunteered to swim a line to shore through the icy waves, trying to save the foundering USS Pollux off the Newfoundland coast.

Age at Death: 22

Image Source: Carolina Room photo

Lemuel Mewborne

Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: He had been overseas two months at the time of his death.

Age at Death: 21

Image Source: The Charlotte Observer 3-25-1945

Randolph Moore

Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Killed over Germany.

Age at Death: Unavailable

Image Source: The Charlotte Observer 5-25-1944

Rumsey Pete Lewis

Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Killed in an accident at Camp Mackall, NC.

Age at Death: Unavailable

Image Source: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library

Leonard Lundquist

Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Listed on the 1946 YMCA Honor List and killed in a plane crash.

Age at Death: Unavailable

Image Source: Charlotte Mecklenburg Library

Richard McCallum

Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Captured in the fall of Corregidor and died of malaria as a Japanese POW.

Age at Death: 23

Image Source: Charlotte Observer 7-7-45

Clarence Lewis, Jr.

Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Killed in action in North Africa.

Age at Death: 25

Image Source: The Charlotte Observer 8-29-1943

Taze Lundy

Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Died of wounds received in combat on Oct 14. Also awarded Purple Heart for wounds sustained in combat in France in July, 1944.

Age at Death: 22

Image Source: CO 11-12-44

Turner McCarley

Death Details/Burial/Memorial Services: Killed in action in the South Pacific per Sep 3, 1943 newsprint.

Age at Death: 25

Image Source: newsprint-unknown