Yesterday, November 9, 2020, I contributed to the 2020 call for additions to the Honor Roll project of Heather Rojo. My contribution for Veterans Day 2020 continued the process of transcribing the hundreds of men and women from the Wallingford, Connecticut area who served their country during World War II (my father being among them).
As the above photograph of the WW II memorial on the grounds of the Wallingford Town Hall illustrates, there are seven panels each with triple columns of the names of those who served. Starting with my 2016 Veterans Day post, many, but nowhere near all of the names listed on the first panel, were transcribed. The surnames are in alphabetical order across the entire seven panels.
My post of November 10th, 2016 transcribed and listed all the names on the first panel from George C. Abbott, Jr. to Joseph E. Buza -- 244 names altogether. My Memorial Day 2017 post listed all the surnames that begin with C through E -- 298 names in all. For Veterans Day November 8, 2017, I transcribed an additional 317 surnames covering those beginning with F through I and the Veterans Day 2019 post added 242 more names covering surnames beginning with J through L. Yesterday 395 surnames covering all of those beginning with M through Q were transcribed and posted.
In keeping with my intent to also post close-ups of the panels showing all the names I have transcribed and listed, this is the post of panel close-ups to provide photographs of all the surnames that begin with M through Q. This is the process that will be followed for the remaining panels over time in order to keep the transcription posts to a manageable size. The transcribed names will be posted first and photographs of the panel close-ups covering the posted names will follow shortly thereafter so that those who want to have an actual image of the memorial and the name of ancestors or relatives can take them from these posted photographs.
In early posts of the panel close-ups I think I neglected to mention that some of the names have a star/asterisk preceding the inscribed name. This means that the starred person gave the ultimate sacrifice and died in service during the war.
I am very indebted to my cousin, Bruce Marquardt of Wallingford, for so willingly photographing the panels in close-up for me after my efforts to do so failed. Thank you Bruce!
The following six panel close-ups cover the M to Q surnames on the Wallingford WWII memorial from Allen A. Macfarlane through Carroll C. Quimby. Please note that in order to be sure all names were photographed, the photos overlap and some names are therefore shown more than once. The repeated names can thus be used to orient the precise order of the names from Macfarlane to Quimby. The alphabetical order flows down the first column and then up to the top of the second column and finally up to the top of third column on each of the panels.
The surnames starting with M begin with Allen A. Macfarlane in the third column of the first close-up Photo No. 1 below and continue down that third column through to Photo 4 and the name Marvic H. McCune. The surnames starting with M then continue in the first column of Photo 5 with the name James J. McDonough and follow down that column to the name Ralph B. Munson on Photo 9. The M surnames then move to column two on Photo 10 beginning with the name John J. Murphy until the M surnames are completed eight names down that column and end with Thaddeus J. Myers.
Photo 1
Photo 2
Photo 3
Photo 4
Photo 5
Photo 6
Photo 7
Photo 8
The N surnames begin in the second column of Photo No. 5 above with the name Frank P. Naczi and continue down the second column in Photos 5 - 8 before ending in the second column of Photo No. 8 with the name William Nyiri. Surnames starting with O begin in the second column of Photo No. 8 with the name Edward J. O'Connell and continue down the second column in Photos 8 - 9 before ending in the second column of Photo No. 9 at the name Adrian Ouwerkerk. The P surnames begin in that same column in Photo 9 with the name Pasquale J. Pacelli and then begin again in column three of Photo 5 with the name Albert F. Padley, Jr. The P surnames continue in the third column of Photos 5 - 9 until they end in column three of Photo 9 with the name John Popovich before resuming in column one of Photo 10 immediately below.
Photo 10
Photo 11
Finally, the surnames beginning with P and Q are completed in the first columns of Photos 10 and 11 above ending with the name Carroll C. Quimby in Photo 11.
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All close-up photographs of the panels of the WWII memorial are by Bruce Marquardt of Wallingford, Connecticut.
Photo of the entire memorial is by the author.
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Copyright 2020, John D. Tew
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