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Clayton Veterans Remembrance Memorial

Clayton Veterans Remembrance Memorial

Would like to honor these twelve Clayton men whose names appear on the memorial below and who has given their lives serving our country. In honoring these twelve men, we would like to give you information on who they served with, and a brief biography of who they were.

  1. Homer L. Ewan — WW I, U.S. Infantry
    • Killed in action while fighting in France on November 6, 1918. Co. “B”, 5th Division.
  2. W. Stout Cheeseman — WW I, U.S. Navy
    • Contacted pneumonia while training at a Naval Base in South Carolina, September, 1918.
  3. Harold K. Costill — WW II, U.S. Navy
    • Missing in action while serving on the Battleship WEST VIRGINIA at Pearl Harbor Hawaii during the Japanese attack on December 7, 1942.
  4. John W. Brown— WW II, U.S. Army
    • A musician in the U.S. Army Band. Killed while in training at Fort Dix, New Jersey.
  5. Harry C. Alexander, Jr.— WW II, U.S. Army Air Force, 2nd Lt.
    • Killed in action over Germany on August 10, 1944.
  6. Earl Stanley Dennis — WW II, U.S. Army Air Force Test Pilot
    • Killed in a test dive on June 27, 1945 at Tindell Air Field in Florida.
  7. Russell S. Scott — WW II, U.S. Coast Guard
    • Killed in a PBY Aircraft accident off of Newfoundland in the North Atlantic Ocean, July, 1946.
  8. Richard E. Hogas, Jr.— WW II, U.S. Navy
    • Killed in action aboard the Destroyer U.S.S. UNDERHILL which was sunk by a Japanese Suicide Submarine on July 24, 1945.
  9. Claude W. Mathews — VN, U.S. Air Force
    • Killed in action when his aircraft was shot down in bad weather Ninh Thuan Province, South Vietnam, December 17, 1965.
  10. Gary C. Coyle — VN, U.S. Army
    • Killed in action while attempting to save a comrade’s life on Valentines Day, February 14, 1966, about thirty miles N.W. of Saigon in the Hau Hghia Province, South Vietnam. Gary is one of two Gloucester County’s most decorated solders of the Vietnam War. He received our nations second highest honor, the Distinguished Service Cross.
  11. James D. Hagelstein — VN, U.S. Marine Corps
    • Killed in action in the Quang Nam Province, South Vietnam on February 14, 1970.
  12. David J. Bentz, 3rd — Irag, U.S. Army
    • Killed in action on June 20, 2007 in Bahgdad, Irag. DJ was posthumously awarded the U.S. Army Commendation Metal of Valor for saving the life of a comrade just days before he was killed.