Amherst County lost numerous men in World War I, including Felix Longdale Bandon, John Rubin Bowling, Henry Branch, Frank Brown, Harry J. Bryant, Edward Scott Burford, Jack Lee Burley, Earnest Campbell, John Lewis Campbell, Dorris Harden Carpenter, Oscar M. Coffey, Fletcher M. Davis, Colear Ellis Dobyns, Gibbs Eubank, Russell Roy Grant, Nevel Hamilton, Arthur Hargrove, Willis G. Henson, Robinson Crusoe Johnson, Robert Lee Kesler, Marshall Lee, Dewey Brown Mays, Herbert Washington Nuckols, Maynard J. Padgett, Lawrence D. Paris, Joseph L. Phillips, Charles E. Richardson, Joseph Everett Scott, and Edward Dabney Stewart, who died while serving in a wide range of Army and Naval units between 1917 and 1919.