AFSA Memorial Plaque List

Honoring Americans Who Lost their Lives
Under Heroic or other Inspirational Circumstances
Or otherwise In the Line of Duty
While Serving the U.S. Government and the American People
Abroad in Foreign Affairs

(Names are listed in the order that they were inscribed)

William Palfrey

Lost at Sea — 1780

Joel Barlow

Exposure — Zarnowice 1812

Richard C. Anderson

Yellow Fever — Cartagena, Colombia 1823

Nathaniel G. Ingraham, Jr.

Fever — Tampico, Mexico 1824

Harris E. Fudger

Murdered — Bogota, Colombia 1825

James A. Holden

Lost at Sea — 1827

John S. Meircken

Lost at Sea — 1832

William Shaler

Cholera — Havana, Cuba 1833

William S. Sparks

Cholera — Venice, Italy 1849

Thomas T. Turner

Epidemic — Bahia 1849

Thomas I. Morgan

Yellow Fever — Rio De Janeiro 1850

Hardy M. Burton

Yellow Fever — St . Thomas 1852

George R. Dwyer

Coast Fever — Mozambique 1854

Beverly L. Clarke

Tropical Fever — Guatemala 1860

Isaac S. McMicken

Yellow Fever — Acapulco, Mexico 1860

George True

Smallpox — Funchal 1862

Edward W. Gardner

Lost at Sea — 1863

Charles G. Hannah

Yellow Fever — Demerara 1864

Abraham Hanson

African Fever — Monrovia, Liberia 1866

Hiram R. Hawkins

Epidemic — Tumbez, Peru 1866

Allen A. Hall

Epidemic — La Paz, Bolivia 1867

H. E. Peck

Yellow Fever — Haiti 1867

James Wilson

Yellow Fever — Venezuela 1867

James H. McColley

Yellow Fever — Callao 1869

William Stedman

Yellow Fever — Santiago, Cuba 1869

Charles E. Perry

Epidemic — Aspinwall, Colombia 1872

Thomas Biddle

Epidemic — Guayaquil 1875

John F. Flint

Drowned Saving Life — La Union, El Salvador 1875

Philip Clayton

Yellow Fever — Callao 1877

Henry H. Garnet

African Fever — Monrovia 1882

Jesse H. Moore

Yellow Fever — Callao 1883

David T. Bunker

Yellow Fever — Demerara 1888

Victor F. W. Stanwood

Murdered — Madagascar 1888

William D. McCoy

Fever — Monrovia, Liberia 1893

John R. Meade

Yellow Fever — Santo Domingo 1894

Alexander L. Pollock

Yellow Fever — San Salvador 1894

Frederick Munchmeyer

Yellow Fever — San Salvador 1895

John B. Gorman

Malignant Malaria — Matamoros, Mexico 1896

Albert S. Willis

Malaria — Honolulu, Hawaii 1897

Rounsevelle Wildman

Lost at Sea — 1901

Thomas T. Prentis

Volcanic Eruption — Martinique 1902

Amedee Testart

Volcanic Eruption — Martinique 1902

Thomas Nast

Yellow Fever — Guayaquil 1902

William F. Havemeyer

Cholera — Bassorah, Turkey 1904

Philip Carroll

Fever — Manzanillo, Mexico 1906

Benjamin H. Ridgely

Exhaustion — Mexico City 1908

Arthur A. Cheney

Earthquake — Messina 1908

John W. Gourley

Smallpox — Ciudad Juarez, Mexico 1910

Theodore C. Hamm

Smallpox — Durango, Mexico 1914

Robert N. McNeely

Lost at Sea — 1915

Charles P. McKiernan

Smallpox — Chungkiang, China 1916

Charles F. Brissel

Cholera — Baghdad, 1916

Alfred L. M. Gottschalk

Lost at sea — 1918

Maddin Summers

Exhaustion — Moscow 1918

John D. O'Rear

Smallpox — La Paz, Bolivia 1918

Luther K. Zabriskie

Smallpox — Aguas Calientes, Mexico 1921

Carl R. Loop

Saving Life — Catania 1923

Max D. Kirjassof

Earthquake — Yokohama, Japan 1923

Paul E. Jenks

Earthquake — Yokohama, Japan 1923

Clarence C. Woolard

Epidemic — Cape Haitien, Haiti 1923

Robert W. Imbrie

Murdered — Teheran, Persia 1924

William T. Francis

Yellow Fever — Liberia 1929

William I. Jackson

Drowned Attempting to Save Life — Matanzas, Cuba 1930

John T. Wainwright

Drowned Attempting to Save Life — Matanzas, Cuba 1930

G. Russell Taggart

Hurricane — Belize, British Honduras 1931

J. Theodore Marriner

Murdered — Beirut, Syria 1937

John M. Slaughter

Earthquake — Guayaquil 1942

Thomas C. Wasson

Shot by Sniper — Jerusalem 1948

Douglas S. Mackiernan

Killed by Gunfire — Tibet 1950

Robert Lee Mikels

Burned Attempting to Save Life — Pusan, Korea 1951

David LeBreton, Jr.

Drowned Saving Lives — Tunis 1953

William P. Boteler

Killed By Grenade — Nicosia, Cyprus 1956

Robert A. McKinnon

Tropical Disease — Ouagadougou 1961

Barbara A. Robbins

Killed in Bombing of Embassy — Saigon, Vietnam 1965

Joseph W. Grainger

Murdered — Vietnam 1965

Joseph R. Rupley

Killed by Gunfire — Caracas, Venezuela 1965

Dolph B. Owens

Vietnam 1960

Jack J. Wells

Plane Crash — Vietnam 1965

Norman L. Clowers

Viet Cong Ambush — Vietnam 1966

William D. Smith III

Vietnam 1966

Don M. Sjostrom

Laos 1967

John R. McLean

Laos 1967

Robert K. Franzblau

Shot While Evacuating Refugees — Vietnam 1967

Dwight Hall Owen, Jr.

Killed by Communist Forces — Vietnam 1967

Carroll H. Pender

Landmine Explosion — Vietnam 1967

Frederick J. Abramson

Shot During Viet Cong Ambush — Vietnam 1968

Thomas M. Gompertz

Killed in Tet Offensive — Vietnam 1968

John T. McCarthy

Died from gunshot wound — Vietnam 1968

Kermit J. Krause

Killed in Tet Offensive — Vietnam 1968

Jeffrey S. Lundstedt

Killed in Tet Offensive — Vietnam 1968

Robert R. Little

Killed in Tet Offensive — Vietnam 1968

Stephen H. Miller

Vietnam 1968

Hugh C. Lobit

Shot by Sniper — Vietnam 1968

Richard A. Schenk

Landmine Explosion — Vietnam 1968

Michael Murphy

Viet Cong Ambush — Vietnam 1968

John Gordon Mein

Shot by Guatemalen rebels — Guatemala 1968

George B. Gaines

Died from gunshot wounds — Vietnam 1969

Robert P. Perry

Murdered by Palestinian terrorists — Jordan 1970

Dan A. Mitrione

Assassinated by Uruguayan rebels — Uruguay 1970

Cleo Allen Noel, Jr.

Assassinated by Palestinian terrorists — Sudan 1973

George Curtis Moore

Assassinated by Palestinian terrorists — Sudan 1973

Everett D. Reese

Killed in action — Vietnam 1955

Thomas W. Ragsdale

Died while a prisoner of war — Vietnam 1967

Donald V. Freeman

Shot during hostile fire — Vietnam 1967

Albert A. Farkas

Pulmonary Embolism following sniper wound — Vietnam 1968

Robert W. Brown, Jr.

Shot during hostile fire — Vietnam 1968

Robert W. Hubbard

Killed while trying to escape Viet Cong — Vietnam 1968

Joseph B. Smith

Landmine Explosion — Vietnam 1970

Rudolph Kaiser

Viet Cong Ambush — Vietnam 1972

John Paul Vann

Helicopter Crash — Vietnam 1972

John S. Patterson

Kidnapped and murdered — Mexico 1974

Rodger P. Davies

Shot by sniper — Cyprus 1974

James C. Marshall

Killed in Tet Offensive — Vietnam 1968

Steven A. Haukness

Killed in Tet Offensive — Vietnam 1968

Charles W. Turberville

Killed in Bomb Blast — Cambodia 1971

John Patrick Egan

Kidnapped and Killed by insurgents — Argentina 1975

Charles McMahon

Rocket Attack — Vietnam 1975

Darwin L. Judge

Rocket Attack — Vietnam 1975

Thomas Olmstead

Pancreatitis — Cambodia 1975

Francis E. Meloy, Jr.

Assassinated by terrorists — Beirut 1976

Robert O. Waring

Assassinated by terrorists — Beirut 1976

Adolph Dubs

Kidnapped and killed by terrorists — Kabul 1979

Steven J. Crowley

Shot by mob — Islamabad 1979

Bryan L. Ellis

Burned Attempting to Save Life — Islamabad 1979

Charles Robert Ray

Assassinated by terrorists — Paris 1982

Robert C. Ames