Veterans In My Family
Clifford George Smith, my father
U.S. Navy, 1954-1960
Eugene A. Smith, cousin
U.S. Air Force
Jeffrey Lynn Heath, my god-father
U.S. Army, Vietnam
Lawrence Morris, my step-grandfather
5 years TDY Southeast Asia, Vietnam
Gerald Cobb Neil, my uncle
U. S. Army, 5th SF
Vietnam
Tonny Vanderstappen, very dear family friend
U.S. Army, Vietnam
James E. Casement, cousin
U.S. Army, Korea
Richard Craig, very dear family friend
U.S. Army, Korea
Vernon Roy Buckway, cousin
U.S. Army, Korea
Howard Ray Holmes, cousin
U.S. Air Force; First Lieutenant
Missing In Action, Korea
Korean War Project Rememberance
Dan Blaine Neil, cousin
U.S. Navy, four years in the Seabees, Korea
Bob Allred, cousin
U.S. Navy, WWII and Korea
Paul Gordon Neil, my grandfather
U.S. Army, WWII and Korea
Berdean A. Allred, cousin
48th Armored Infantry Battalion (7th Armored Division)
Seargent, Company C; Squad Leader Service #39924449
Killed In Action in Linnich, Germany
World War II
Calvert Charles Allred, cousin
Killed In Action, Pacific Theatre, WWII 1 Sep 1943;
buried 18 Oct 1946, Afton, Lincoln, Wyoming
Photo contributed; I can't thank you enough.
Claire Julian Allred, cousin
World War II
He joined the Army Air Corps November 1942
where he gained many honors as a top gunner.
He became the ball turret gunner on his B-24 crew.
On his last mission they were shot down over Germany
where he became a POW for 10 months.
They were liberated in April 1945.
Martin Allred, cousin
World War II, South Pacific
Warren Duke Allred, cousin
He served with the U.S. Army from 1955 to 1957.
In 1957 he joined the Reserves as a 1st Lieutenant and then
became a Colonel for the Judge Advocate Corp
Joseph U. Boekweg, cousin
U.S. Army, World War II
Abraham Buckway, cousin
U.S. Army, World War II
Joseph Jacob Buckway, cousin
At 19 he entered the U. S. Army and served in the Infantry and
Army Air Corp 46th Army Division. He served in Germany and France in
WW II as part of the Army of Occupation and remained in Europe following
the armistice, serving in a "displaced persons" camp as part of the
rebuilding of Europe when the war was over.
Uldrick 'Orick' Buckway, cousin
U.S. Army, World War II
Roy Francis Cobb, great great uncle
Major, U.S. Air Force, World War II.
He flew the first Allied combat mission from
German territory; 12 Mar 1945 P-47's of the
373rd Fighter Group. Uncle Roy was D Flight Commander.
Otis P. Hager, very dear family friend
U.S. Army, World War II
George Kapp, cousin
U.S. Army, 385th Infantry African, European
and Pacific Theaters, World War II
Stanley Edison Rose, cousin
U.S. Navy Pacific Islands, World War II
Captain Franklin Van Valkenburgh, cousin
He gave his life for his Country
aboard the USS Arizona
7 Dec 1941
Franklin Van Valkenburgh
Home of Heroes
USS Van Valkenburgh
Isaac Martin Behunin, cousin
U.S. Army, World War I
Uuldrik Boekweg Sr., great great uncle
U.S. Army, World War I
Wilford George Christensen, great great uncle
World War I
Frederick Henry Cobb, great great great uncle
U.S. Army Hospital Corp 42,
World War I
William Leonard Cobb, my great grandfather
U.S. Army Battery C 106th Field Artiliary 27th Division
World War I
Fought in France where he was wounded;
he spent the rest of his life with shrapnel in his leg.
Heino "Ino" Kapp, cousin
PFC U.S. Army, World War I
Franklin D. Kidd,
husband of great great great aunt Ruby Nina Cobb
U.S. Army, World War I
Van Ransier Gold
PVT Company M2 Regiment Mobile Infantry,
Spanish American War
I am not related to this Veteran,
but I have a special interest in him
William Cobb, my great great great grandfather
Union Army Company A 151st Regiment of
the New York Voluteer Infantry
Civil War
Walter Shreeve, great great great uncle
Company B, Third United States artillery
February 17, 1865, stationed at Camp Reynolds, Angel Island, San Francisco harbor;
then transferred to Battery D, Second United States artillery, and soon after
sent to Black Point, San Francisco harbor, California, at which place he served
the balance of his time, three years. He was discharged at Black Point, San Francisco harbor,
February 17, 1868
Ted Evans, taken in 1940
"Billy S", taken May 9, 1941
Can anyone identify these two gentlemen? These photos were in my grandmother Betty's photo albums, and unfortunately, no one in my immediate family knows who they are. If you do, please contact me! I would love to solve this puzzle, and these veterans deserve to be known.
This page is not only to honor the Veterans in my family, but to honor every Veteran. The men and women who have risked everything for this great Country, for us, for the Freedom of every Nation, deserve the highest respect possible. I have very special respect for two relatives in particular; great great uncle Uuldrik Boekweg Sr., who had come to America from the Netherlands in 1901 and fought in World War I, and my great great great grandfather William Cobb. William had come to America from England in 1864. He enlisted March 11, 1865. So he may have been here less than a year when he chose to risk his life for his new Country. They didn't have to do this...... they chose to because they knew it was right.
They all did.
It is up to us to do our part and insure they are never forgotten.
Support your local VFW Hall, whatever local Auxiliary in your area, or whatever other Veterans' associations or groups that may exist where you live. And not every Veteran has living relatives to remember them, so when you visit your loved ones that have passed, look around the cemetery for Veterans' graves that never seem to have flowers except for what the VFW dutifully places there on National Holidays. Save a flower for them. Save a flower for their spouse as well, and any children that may be there, for they have done their service to America too. And if their parents rest nearby, save them something very special, for they produced a hero.
