Douglas L. Brown
MSG (retired), U.S. Army
August 1986 to August 2008
Attended basic training at Fort Knox, Ky.
Advanced individual training at Fort Sam Houston, Texas. Trained as a medic.
Assignments include Fort Stewart, Ga., Camp Hovey, Korea, Fort Ord, California.
Army recruiting at Boston, Mass., Fort Hood (Fort Cavazos), Texas, Bad Aibling Station, Germany, U.S. Army Central Command, Fort McPherson, Atlanta, Ga.
Evelyn Hall Baumwart
Sister of Eugene Hall
Army - World War II
1944-1946
Sgt. Eugene Hall
Brother of Evelyn Hall Baumwart
Korea — Vietnam
1949-1975
Grover Benjamin Bannister
Private, U.S. Army Coastal Artillery Corps, Company 1
Born Oct. 8, 1888 - Died Oct. 6, 1918
Grover Benjamin Bannister was the son of Judge Charles A. Bannister and Josephine Wilma (Hanks) Bannister.
He was born Oct. 8, 1888, in Pratt County, Kan., and he and his family moved to Oklahoma in 1889, first settling on a farm east of El Reno. In 1895, the family built a new home at 200 N. Barker Ave., where they lived for decades thereafter.
William Roberts “Billy” Laird
1940 graduate of El Reno High School.
Born March 16, 1921 - Died Feb. 7, 1943
Laird enlisted in the U.S. Navy on May 18, 1942, just about six months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.
SM3c Laird was one of two signalmen assigned to the troop transport ship the Henry R. Mallory.
The ship was sunk on Feb. 7, 1943, by a German U-boat submarine in the North Atlantic Ocean, en route to Reykjavik, Iceland, from New York after making a stop at Halifax, Nova Scotia.
A total of 272 individuals died in the attack.
Harry Eugene Bradly
Born Dec. 13, 1922 - Died Jan. 25, 1943
Died in a crash of an AT-6 Texan trainer aircraft along the coast of Texas.
Bradly only attended El Reno schools through the seventh grade, at which point his family moved to Chicago, Ill., his father working for the Rock Island Railroad and being transferred there from El Reno.
Bradly graduated from Calumet High School in Chicago in 1941.
Harry J. Moss
Born Sept. 10, 1910 - Died March 4, 1945
Graduated from El Reno High School in 1928.
Played semi-professional baseball for a time.
Was an engineer on an early version of the B-17 Flying Fortress, based at Clark Field in the Philippines when the Japanese attacks occurred in December 1941.
Died as a Prisoner of War of the Japanese six months before the Japanese surrendered to end World War II, and more than three years after he was first captured.
Lloyd W. Carroll
1958-1960 and 1961-1962.
U.S. Army
A 143 SIG. BN 3 AM DIV.
Frankfurt, Germany.
Carroll was a radio operator that did the Morse Codes.
Sammy Smith
Born Oct. 23, 1946 - Died April 16, 1968
Graduated from El Reno High School Class of 1966.
Served in the 101st Airborne Division.
Killed in action in Thua Thien province, South Vietnam, from small arms fire in his first battle.
