26th Marines
Association
In Memoriam
"SAEPE EXPERTUS - SEMPER FIDELIS - FRATRES AETERNI" "Often Tested - Always Faithful - Brothers
Forever"
Deceased 26th Marine | Date
of Death | Hometown | Unit | Nam Yr(s) | MOS | James "Bull"
Durham | 1968 September - RVN | | 2/26 Echo 1st Plt. | 68 | O311 | James Lauer | 1968 December
- RVN | | 2/26 Echo 1st Plt. | 68 | O311 | Samuel "Big Sam"
Ybarra | 1970 February - RVN | Austin, Texas | 2/26 Echo 2nd Plt. | 68-69-70 | O311 | Thomas B. "Hippie" Hosley | 1997 July 28 | Rome, New York | 2/26 Echo | 68-69 | O351 | Ted Nichols | 2001 Spring | | 2/26 Echo 3rd Plt. | 68-69 | O311 | Carl Fennel | 2003 June 17 | | 2/26 Echo | 68-69 | O311 | Thomas
S. Laverty | 2005 February 26 | | 2/26 Echo | 68-69 | O311 | Donald Shoff | 2005 | | 2/26 Echo Guns | 68-69 | O311 | William R "Stump"
Jones | 2006 November 4 | Lena, Mississippi | 2/26 Foxtrot | 67-68-69 | O311 | Kenneth Williams. LT. | 2010 November | Alpharetta, Ga | 2/26 Echo | 68-69 | O302 Grunt LT.
| Mike "Nashville
Cat" Townes | 2014 January 9 | Middle, Tennesee | 2/26 Echo | 68-69 | O311 | Earl Breeding Jr., Major | 2015 August 7 | Albuquerque, New Mexico | 2/26 Echo 2/26
Echo, CO, then Battalion S4 | 67-68 | O302 Grunt Maj. |
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