POST HISTORY
1927 – 1938
Dancy Miller Post 55
"About twenty WWI veterans met April 5, 1927 along with the State Commander, Rice King, and State Adjutant Howard Rowton and formed the Dancy Miller Post 55 of the American Legion, Department of Florida. It was estimated at the time that there were about 50 ex-servicemen eligible for membership in Flagler County at the time. B.C. Stafford, was elected Commander. Ultimately all but one WWI veteran living in Flagler County joined Dancy Miller."
Source: The Flagler Tribune, April 7, 1927, courtesy of the Flagler County Historical Society.
1938 – Present
Flagler Post Post 115, Inc.
"May 6, 1937 a planning meeting was held to organize the Dancy Miller Post. The original Post 55 number was assigned to another post by the State Department. The first regular meeting of the future Post 115 was held May 20, 1937. The Post applied for a new charter with the Department of Florida as Flagler Post 115, Inc. The charter was approved on March 28, 1938. In 1952 the Post voted to accept a plot of land donated by L.E. Wadsworth located on Bunnell Beach Road about a mile east of Bunnell."
Charter Members
C.M. Miller, F.F. Kumbalek, Phil Fielder, Willie Messer, B.M. Pitts, George Bowers, A.M. McDaniel, L.L. Pike, C.A. Burnsed, Louis Trad, Jobe Brown, Henry G. Lee, W.J. Kinney, J.L. Kilbier, R.L. Hamilton, H.M. Benson
Source: The Flagler Tribune and Welcome Address May 1967 by Walter Morris, Past Commander Post 115, courtesy of the Flagler County Historical Society
Flagler County Service Members Who Died In Service to Their Country
WWI
Dancy Muroe Miller, U.S. Navy
Died of meningitis at Norfolk, VA
1918
WWII
Howard Samuel Bankston, USMC
Killed in Action
September 20, 1944 Peleliu Island
Source: FlaglerLive.com, December 7, 2010 story by Post 115 member Sisco Dean
James Brazier Booe, Bandmaster (CPO) (pictured above)
Killed in Action
USS Oklahoma, December 7, 1941, Pearl Harbor
Joy Monroe Deen, 1st Lt., USAAC
Killed in Action
July 19, 1944, while flying a B-26 over France
Julian Forrest Durrance, Pfc, USA
Killed in Action
Jan 1945, Belgian Bulge
William Herbert Lee, SSgt., USA
Heart Attack
March 5, 1945 Courtland AAF, AL
Marion Gordon McCraney, Torpedoman 3/c, USN
Killed in Action
November 13, 1942 off Guadalcanal
Versie L Mitchell, Pfc, USA
Drowned
January 19, 1944 in Burma
Michael Louis Trad, Amm, USN
Aircraft Crash off of Key West
January 16, 1946
Willie Wilson, Pfc. USA,
Auto Accident while on leave
October 13, 1945 nine miles west of Bunnell
FORMER FLAGLER COUNTY RESIDENTS WHO DIED ON ACTIVE DUTY DURING WWII
Tommy Buckner, Pvt. USA
Killed in Action
December 1, 1943, Italy
Lawrence B Pringle, Cpl, USMC
Killed in Action
August 29, 1944, Saipan
Bob Ringleben, Pvt, USA,
Killed in Action
Mar 11,1945 Germany
(worked for AC Rodgers in Bunnell)
Korean Conflict
John Arden (Jack) Kinney, PFC, USA, 38th Inf,
Wounded in Action
09 Sep 1954
Died
12 Sep 1954
Vietnam War
Dale Wayne Farris, SSgt, U.S.A.F.
Killed in Action
31 March 1972, Phu Cat Air Force Base, Vietnam
Jonathan Nathaniel Spicer, U.S.M.C.
Navy Cross, Silver Star
Died from wounds received at Khe Sanh, Vietnam on 8 Mar 1968
on
14 Mar 1968
at the
U.S.A.F. Hospital, Tachikawa Air Base, Japan
Persian Gulf
Zachary J. Walters, Sgt., USMC
Killed in Action
08 Jun 2010, Helmand Province, Afghanistan
Source: FLAGLER/PALM COAST NEWS-TRIBUNE
http://www.flaglercountyfamilies.com/military.html