Casualties of War, Part 4

The Doughboy stat­ue behind the cour­t­house has the names of 17 indi­vid­u­als from Clark County who died in the Korean War.  Researching news­pa­per records, we find one of those names should be omit­ted.  Claire Campbell was induct­ed into the Army in January 1946, after the end of World War II.  He died after a short ill­ness at a hos­pi­tal in Virginia in March 1946, before the Korean War began. 

We also iden­ti­fied three sol­diers from Clark County who died in Korea and whose names do not appear on the Doughboy list.

Marion Hisle Todd

Marion H. Todd was born in 1921, a son of Everett Todd of Winchester.  A vet­er­an of World War II, Marion had served in Panama and Europe, and received a Bronze Star for hero­ism, before his dis­charge from the Army in 1945.  Marion reen­list­ed in 1948 and was sent to Korea with the 24^th Division of the 8^th Army.  On February 6, 1951, Sergeant Todd was fatal­ly wound­ed in action at Son-jo-Ni, near Seoul, South Korea.  He was award­ed an Oak Leaf Cluster and Purple Heart posthumously.

Carl Dalton Logan

Pvt. Carl D. Logan, for­mer­ly of Winchester, served in Company C, 1^st Battalion, 7^th Cavalry Regiment, 1^st Cavalry Division.  He was killed in action on September 6, 1951, in North Korea.  Logan had worked at the Gulf sta­tion on Lexington Avenue.  He was sur­vived by his par­ents Brinton and Dallie Logan, and broth­ers Claude of Winchester and Tom who was also in the armed ser­vices.  Private Logan received the Purple Heart, as well as sev­er­al oth­er awards for his ser­vice.  He was buried in the Logan Cemetery in Perry County.

Henry Prewitt Lewis

Henry P. Lewis was born in Montgomery County, a son of Mr. and Mrs. Andy Lewis.  After serv­ing with the 11^th Airborne Division in Japan dur­ing World War II, he reen­list­ed in 1951 and went to Korea with the 14^th Infantry Regiment, 25^th Infantry Division.  Corporal Lewis was serv­ing as a machine gun­ner when he was killed in action in Korea on September 16, 1952.  He left a wid­ow, Betty Green Lewis, who lived on Magnolia Street in Winchester.  Lewis is buried in Winchester Cemetery.

The Doughboy mon­u­ment also lists the names of those from Clark County killed in World War II.  Several on the list were not tech­ni­cal­ly casu­al­ties of war:  Owen Bailey, served in the war but died while on fur­lough after the war was over, and Eugene Ecton died of dia­betes in the Pacific, also after the war had end­ed.  Henry Martin died in the mer­chant marines, not the armed forces.  For five oth­er names, we could find no Clark County con­nec­tion:  Robert Brown, Truman Crabtree, Samuel Medlin, Joe Pringle, and James Wurdack.  We would appre­ci­ate infor­ma­tion con­cern­ing any of these men.

Research also turned up sev­er­al names not on the Doughboy list.

Ray Dell Thompson

Ray D. Thompson was a Clark County native, the son of Richard and Ida Thompson.  Both par­ents were deceased when Ray died in a hos­pi­tal in New Guinea on April 4, 1944.  The cause of death was attrib­uted to peri­toni­tis.  Born in 1917 dur­ing World War I, Staff Sergeant Thompson had been serv­ing in the Army Air Force since January 1942.  He was interred in Versailles Cemetery, Woodford County.

David McKinly Richard

David M. Richard grew up in Winchester.  He was the son of Riolon D. and Georgia Ann Richard.  Riolon was a jan­i­tor at Kentucky Wesleyan College.  David, a Tec 4 in the 406^th Ordinance Medium Maintenance Company, died February 12, 1945, at Camp Swift, Texas.  A ser­vice was held at his par­ents’ home on Denny Avenue, fol­lowed by bur­ial in Reeves Cemetery, the aban­doned grave­yard on Old Muddy Creek Road.

Walter Redman Pinnell Jr.

Walter Pinnell learned to fly in Nashville with the Pack Flying Service when he was 22 years old.  Second Lieutenant Pinnell, 25, was killed when his B‑26 bomber explod­ed and crashed at Bolling Field near Keswick, Virginia, on August 7, 1942.  He is buried in Winchester Cemetery.

Robert “Bobby” Anderson

Bobby Anderson was a grad­u­ate of Winchester High School and resided here with his grand­par­ents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Nelson.  First Lieutenant Anderson had been in the ser­vice two years when he died.  He was a flight offi­cer in the air trans­port ser­vice in India when his plane dis­ap­peared at an undis­closed date in 1945.  Anderson left a wife and two chil­dren in Lincoln, Nebraska.