On Memorial Day, we pause to remember all servicemembers who lost their lives in wartime service to the nation. With gratitude and reflection, we particularly honor members of the Harvard Law School community who made the ultimate sacrifice.

 
The names of those lost in World War I and World War II are engraved into the stone wall surrounding the entrance to the Caspersen Room on the 4th floor of Langdell Hall. Nearby, an additional tribute commemorates members of the HLS community who died in Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan. Together, these memorials serve as a daily reminder to students, staff, and library visitors alike that the study and practice of law are inseparable from the ideals of justice, service, and sacrifice. 

Close up of names on memorial wall.
A close-up of one section of the wall. This section includes “Joseph Patrick Kennedy Jr ’42” Credit: Theresa Knapp
Framed document reads,
A plaque dedicated to HLS alumni who have died in service since World War II. Credit: Theresa Knapp


The inscription on the World War I and World War II wall reads, “In memory of these men of the Harvard Law School whose death in two wars gave new meaning to the heritage and promise of law.” In columns underneath are the names of 83 men lost in World War I, and 111 men lost in World War II. The full list of names is below, along with their HLS class year. Note, any year listed between ‘00 and ’45 is in the 1900s, and any year listed between ’89 and ’99 is in the 1800s.  

Memorial wall with inscription over names of alumni lost in world war 1 and 2 reads: In memory of these men of the Harvard Law School whose death in two wars gave new meaning to the heritage and promise of law.
Full view of the World War I and World War II memorial wall in Langdell Hall. Credit: Theresa Knapp

World War I

HLS memorial wall with list of alumni lost in World War 1.
List of HLS community members who died in World War I, along with their associated class year. Credit: Theresa Knapp
  • Henry Gorell Barnes ’06  
  • David Morse Barry ’18 
  • Lester Clement Barton ’11 
  • Francis Bergen ’17 
  • Hugh Charles Blanchard ’12 
  • Raynal Cawthorne Bolling ’02 
  • William Cheney Brown, ‘16 
  • Edward Rankin Brainerd Jr. ’17 
  • William Francis Cahill ’16 
  • Chester Thomas Calder ’14 
  • Thomas Carroll Carver ’12 
  • Oliver Moulton Chadwick ’14 
  • Arthur Briggs Church ’09 
  • Howard Rogers Clapp ’13 
  • Henry Warren Cleary ’13 
  • Frederic Percival Clement Jr. ’19 
  • Robert Henry Coleman ’18 
  • Paul Bond Collins ’08 
  • James Fenimore Cooper Jr. ’17 
  • Peter Edward Costello ’14 
  • Charles Robert Cross Jr. ’06 
  • Nathaniel Fellowes Davis ’12 
  • Donald Earl Dunbar ’17 
  • Robert Allan French ’08 
  • Earl Russell Fretz ’19 
  • Alvin Minor Froom ’19 
  • Kenneth Eliot Fuller ’19 
  • Robert Gorham Fuller ’07 
  • Augustus Peabody Gardner ’89 
  • Arthur Russell Gaylord ’18 
  • Robert Swift Gillett ’19 
  • Proctor Calvin Gilson ’18 
  • George Waite Goodwin ’19 
  • Edward Leslie Grant ’08 
  • Clifford Barker Grayson ’19 
  • Thomas Addis Emmet Harris ’14 
  • Walcott Brown Hastings ’18 
  • Harry Woodford Hayward ’00 
  • William Joseph Hever ’19 
  • Arne Knud Bours Hoisholt ’15 
  • Marshall Sumner Holbrook ’01 
  • Jason Solon Hunt ’18 
  • Richard Jocelyn Hunter ’08 
  • Reuben Brent Hutchcraft Jr ’11 
  • John Wadsworth Hutchison ’10 
  • Branton Holstein Kellogg ’15 
  • Hobart Adams Lawton ’16 
  • Isidor David Levy ’15 
  • Howard Burchard Lines ’15 
  • Francis Robbins McCook ’17 
  • Charles Francis Maurice Malley ’95 
  • Harold Nixon Matthews ’18 
  • Percy Albert Mills ’19 
  • James Kennedy Moorhead ’19 
  • Richard Mortimer Jr. ’13 
  • Ona Jefferson Myers ’15 
  • Walter Flint Noyes ’17 
  • Ira Charles Ogden ’13 
  • Leonard Bacon Parks ’12 
  • John Case Phelps ’09 
  • James Jackson Porter ’14 
  • Norman Prince ’11 
  • Albert Zane Pyles ’17 
  • Donald Fairfax Ray ’12 
  • Phillips Brooks Robinson ’06 
  • Alexander Rodgers Jr. ’18 
  • George Williams Ryley ’13 
  • Henry Corliss Shaw ’04 
  • John Scranton Shaw ’16 
  • Stanley Donald Skene ’13 
  • Walton Kimball Smith ’17 
  • John Cuthbert Stairs ’16 
  • Morris Iphriam Stern ’18 
  • Edmond David Stewart Jr. ’18 
  • Edward Mandell Stone ’10 
  • Albert Dillon Sturtevant ’19 
  • Leslie Orland Tooze ’19 
  • John Brodhead Van Schaick ’91 
  • Alfred Frazier White ’16 
  • Crosby Church Whitman ’89 
  • John Maxwell Widenham ’16 
  • Emmanuel Reyenthaler Wilson ’16 
  • Marshall Shoemaker Winpenny ’11

World War II

HLS memorial wall with list of alumni lost in World War 2.
List of HLS community members who died in World War II, along with their associated class year. Credit: Theresa Knapp
  • Sherman Lloyd Anderson ’28 
  • Wayne Allabach Bannister ’36 
  • Clarence Milton Botts Jr. ’43 
  • John Heck Boushall ’15 
  • John Gaylord Brackett, Jr. ’42 
  • Philip Chipman ’27 
  • Cornelius Christiancy Jr. ’34 
  • James Oliver Clark ’32 
  • Charles Flavan Conlan ’34 
  • Whitney Mowry Cook ’39 
  • Roland Cooper ’38 
  • Joseph Potter Cotton Jr. ’33 
  • Harold Livingston Cross Jr. ’40 
  • Francis Jerome Crowley ’35 
  • Sylvester Cunningham ’41 
  • Charles d’Autremont ’43 
  • Henry Gaylord Dillingham ’43 
  • Robert Hugh Domesek ’35 
  • James Reynolds Dowd ’42 
  • William Herbert Eaton Jr. ’31 
  • John Herbert Edyvean ’43 
  • Charles Henry Everett ’41 
  • William John Farrington ’41 
  • Murray Charles Freedman ’42 
  • Henry Brayton Gardner Jr. ’33 
  • Henry Goodman ’37 
  • Hugh David Graham ’34 
  • Stephen Herman Grant ’44 
  • Robert Sewell Gregory ’40 
  • Edward Pillsbury Hale ’30 
  • Horace Charles Hale ’12 
  • Richard Harry Harms ’44 
  • William Birt Harrington ’32 
  • Robert Heller ’39 
  • Phineas McCray Henry Jr. ’39 
  • William Ralph Herzog ’35 
  • Carl Rumsey Heussy ’29 
  • George Edgar Hill ’42 
  • William Waldermar Hodson ’16 
  • William Mitchell Vail Hoffman Jr. ’24 
  • William Vincent Holohan ’28 
  • John Davidson Hill Hoyt ’23 
  • William Bradford Hubbell ’27 
  • William Edgar Huenekens ’24 
  • JohnWilliam Hulme Jr. ’39 
  • Moreland Mason Humphreys ’24 
  • Alfred Townshend Johnson ’41 
  • Joseph Philip Johnson ’41 
  • Irving Chandler Kaplan ’42 
  • Charles Kendrick ’42 
  • Joseph Patrick Kennedy,  Jr. ’42 
  • Norman Pershing Klinker ’43 
  • Howard Alvin Kohrman ’41 
  • Walter Hazelton Kurtz ’26 
  • Edward Francis Lenihan Jr. ’42 
  • Clarence Levin ’30 
  • Arnold Howard Litt ’41 
  • Daniel Butler McCook ’33 
  • James Patrick Mahoney ’31 
  • Warren Baldwin Manhard ’31 
  • Bernard Marrow ’39 
  • Van Santvoord Merle-Smith ’14 
  • George von Lengerke Meyer Jr. ’41 
  • John Coffinberry Morley ’28 
  • James Edward Murphy ’43 
  • Carlos Antonio Odriozola ’37 
  • John Eugene O’Keefe Jr. ’39 
  • Harold David Osterweil ‘44 
  • Guido Pantaleoni Jr. ’23 
  • Richard Fuller Patterson ’41 
  • Robert Titus Phillips ’28 
  • Maurice B. Quint ’32 
  • Raymond Frederick Rapp ’39 
  • Robert Louis Reinhardt ’30 
  • Irving Reissig ’42 
  • John Harold Richardson ’41 
  • David Louis Roach ’36 
  • John William Roach Jr. ’41 
  • William Merritt Roberts ’36 
  • Emmett Wilton Ross ’43 
  • George Douglas Schaffer ’43 
  • John Wesley Niesz Schultz Jr. ’39 
  • Robin Scully ’42 
  • Walter Milton Seligman ’39 
  • Sampson Sharff ’40 
  • William Du Bose Sheldon ’38 
  • Herbert Bronson Shonk ’41 
  • Nathan Mantel Silverstein ’44 
  • Sidney David Spear ’37 
  • Gerald Robert Steinberg ’40 
  • Seymour Bennett Stone ’43 
  • Gordon Strauss ’36 
  • Samuel Augustus Syme ’24 
  • Arthur Lee Syvertson ’30 
  • Cyrus Robinson Taylor ’43 
  • Volney Wright Taylor Jr. ‘40 
  • Huntington Thom ’38 
  • John Pickering Thomas ’12 
  • Samuel Jackson Underhill ’42 
  • George Sylvester Viereck Jr. ’43 
  • Edward Glenn Walker ’42 
  • William Waite Waters ’41 
  • William Wallace Watson ’36 
  • Joseph William Whelan ’30 
  • Frederick Wilder White ’41 
  • Lowell Whittemore ’33 
  • Wallace McHenry Williams ’42 
  • Warren Winslow ’43 
  • Homer Lynn Wolf  ’40 
  • James Gordon Woodruff ’43 
  • Hiram Edwin Wooster 

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