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Shamokin and Coal Township Remember Service

A wartime Victory Report preserves separate forms of remembrance for Shamokin Borough and Coal Township, including a joint Gold Star Honor Roll and community sections for Brady, Coal Run, and Boydtown.

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Official U.S. Navy portrait of Admiral Herbert G. Hopwood in uniform
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A Joint Gold Star Honor Roll

The Victory Report preserves a joint Shamokin Borough and Coal Township Gold Star Honor Roll. This page acknowledges that documented memorial structure while withholding personal names until identity, spelling, and duplicate-name review can be completed responsibly.

Shamokin Borough’s Separate Roll

The same report includes a dedicated Shamokin Borough Honor Roll. Its existence shows how the city recorded service at the end of the war, but this public interpretation does not claim to reproduce every name or define the exact eligibility rules used by the original compilers.

Coal Township’s Community Sections

Coal Township’s Honor Roll is organized in community sections that include Brady, Coal Run, and Boydtown. Preserving those place names makes the geography of remembrance visible without publishing an unreviewed roster or merging distinct township and borough records.