Three days ago, November 11, 2021, I contributed to the 2021 call for additions to the Honor Roll project of Heather Rojo by posting the sixth listing of surnames on the World War II Memorial in Wallingford, CT. That post completed the process of transcribing the 2,039 names of the 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. For Veterans Day 2020 395 surnames covering all of those beginning with M through Q were transcribed and posted. Transcription of the entire memorial was completed and posted on November 11, 2021. The 543 names transcribed for that post covered all the surnames beginning with R through Z.
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 R through Z. This procedure has been followed for all the previous panel transcriptions. The transcribed names are posted first and photographs of the panel close-ups covering the posted names 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 panel close-ups cover the R to Z surnames on the Wallingford WWII memorial from Paul R. Rabito through Walter J. Zwible. 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 Rabito to Zwible. The alphabetical order flows down the first column and then up to the top of the second column, down the second column, and finally up to the top of third column on each of the panels.
The surnames starting with R begin with Paul R. Rabito in the first column of the first close-up (Photo No. 1 below) and continues down that column through to Photo 3 and the name Donald F. Roudi. The surnames starting with R then continue in the second column of Photo 4 with the name Patrick J. Roudi and follow down that column to the name John R. Ryan where the R surnames are completed and the S surnames begin with the name William P. Saas. This process is repeated for the remaining surnames from S through Z proceeding in the same manner from Photo 5 through Photo 13 going down a column to its end and then up to the next column and so forth until the last name on the memorial, Walter J. Zwible, is reached.
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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 2021, John D. Tew
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