Russell T. Beatty, Corp. Frank Hough, Lt. Charles A. Ball, Pvt. Alexander Pope Humphrey, Pvt. Charles E. Clyburn, Pvt. Robert Martz, Pvt. Thubert H. Conklin, Sgt. Harry Milstead, Pvt. Nealy M. Cooper, Pvt. Judge McGolerick, Pvt. Mathew Curtin, Pvt. John O. McGuinn, Pvt. Leonard Darnes, Wag. Edward Lester Nalle, Pvt. Franklin L. Dawson, Pvt. Ernest H. Nichols, Pvt. John Flemming, Pvt. Linwood Payne, Pvt. Edward C. Fuller, Captain Charles Carter Riticor, Capt. Gilbert H. Gough, Pvt. Ashton H. Shumaker, Pvt. Grover Cleveland Gray, Corp. Henry Grafton Smallwood, Pvt. Leonard H. Hardy, Sgt. John Edward Smith, Corp. Bolling Walker Haxall Jr., Maj. Valentine B. Johnson, Pvt. Ernest Gilbert, Pvt. Samuel C. Thornton, Pvt. Erected By The people of Loudoun County in memory of Her Sons who made the Supreme Sacrifice In the Great War."[187] [187] On every anniversary of the Armistice commemorative services are held before it. Memory also should be kept afresh of the names of eleven Loudoun men who between them, for their services in the war, received no less than nineteen American and foreign decorations: Colonel Arthur H. Carter, Captain Edward C. Fuller, Major William Hanson Gill, William R. Grimes, Samuel C. Hirst, First Lieutenant William P. Hulbert, First Lieutenant James F. Manning, Jr., Colonel Thomas Bentley Mott, Bryant Rust, Captain Edward H. Tebbs, Jr., and Lieutenant Colonel Harry Aubrey Toulmin. This list is incomplete; as given it is copied from the publications of the Virginia War History Commission, Source Volume I, 1923. During the war, as Federal Food Administrator of Virginia, there also served Colonel Elijah B. White of Selma so effectively that among the recognitions of his work that he received was the Agricultural Order of Merit bestowed by the Republic of France. In 1918, in the midst of the war, a new State Administration assumed the reins of government under the leadership of Westmoreland Davis of Loudoun who became Governor of Virginia in that year and whose administration was accepted by the people as efficient, sound and well balanced.