Military Monday (September 15, 2014) -- Everett S. Carpenter in the Rhode Island Militia

My maternal grandfather, Everett Shearman Carpenter, served in World War I as has been discussed previously here at The Prism. He served for a time in France and ended his service on a courier mission back to Washington, DC in July 1919.  He was honorably discharged with the rank of Sergeant at Camp Meigs in the District of Columbia on July 17, 1919.

After returning to his home in Rhode Island, my grandfather at some point joined the Rhode Island Militia. As the promotion paper shown above illustrates, Everett Shearman Carpenter was promoted to the rank of Captain in the Rhode Island Militia on June 3, 1943.

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Scan of the original promotion certificate in the collection of the author.

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Copyright 2014, John D. Tew

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World War I Discharge Document for Everett S. Carpenter -- Military Monday (September 1, 2014)

On January 20, 2013 I published a brief post here at The Prism about the World War I service of my maternal grandfather, Everett Shearman Carpenter (1891 - 1962).  Since that post in January 2013, I have discovered that among some old and unexamined documents gifted to me by my Aunt Roberta, the widow of my mother's brother -- David Otis Carpenter -- is the original World War I discharge paper for my grandfather.  The front and reverse sides of the discharge document are now shown immediately below.

The July 17, 1919 Army discharge paper for Everett S. Carpenter (front)

Reverse side of the the Army discharge paper for Everett S. Carpenter

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Scan from the original discharge paper in the personal collection of the author.

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Copyright 2014, John D. Tew

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Friday Fotos (August 8, 2014) -- Oscar Herbert Hasselbaum: Born One Hundred Twenty-five Years Ago Today

Two weekends ago I visited my parents and was delightfully surprised by some old photographs they had uncovered in going through some of their possessions as they prepare to move into their new apartment in a continuing care community in Pennsylvania.  The photograph above is one that I had never seen before and is one of only two or three photos I have of my paternal grandmother's only brother, my grand uncle Oscar Herbert Hasselbaum.

Oscar Hasselbaum was the only son of my great grandparents, Anton Hasselbaum (1857 - 1916) and Maria Johanna Richter (1859 - 1948). Anton and Maria had five daughters:  Mary (1888 - 1914); Olga (1896 -    ); my grandmother Huldah (1898 - 1983) and her twin sister Josephine (1898 - 1990); and Helena (1901 - 1982).

Oscar was born on August 8, 1889 in Providence, Rhode Island --  125 years ago today! He died on March 16, 1974 in Springfield, Massachusetts at age 84. 

As the photograph above shows, Oscar served during World War I.  He is the man on the left in the photograph.  The taller man on the right is unknown and the date and location of the camp are also unknown. Oscar was not quite 28 years old and living in Fresno, California when he registered for the draft on June 5, 1917.  He was married at the time and he was employed as an automobile electrician.

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Original photograph from the family collection.

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Copyright 2014, John D. Tew

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Saturday Serendipity (August 2, 2014)

In a first for this weekly post series, I am recommending only a single item for your reading/viewing this weekend.  It will take less than 5 minutes for you to read this brief introductory description and view the CNN video . . . but I suspect the story will stay with you for many hours afterward and will probably be recalled often as this 100th anniversary year for World War I transpires in the coming months.  

Please DO pass this story on to others so that these brothers -- like their American World War II counterparts -- are not forgotten.    

    Here we are 100 years after the start of World War I.  On June 28, 1914, Austria declared war on Serbia.  On August 1, 1914, Germany declared war on Russia and on August 3rd Germany invaded Belgium and declared war on France.  Then the next day, on August 4, 1914, Great Britain declared war on Germany and suddenly, irrevocably, the first "world war" -- the war to end all wars -- was on.

     On April 15, 2013 I wrote here about the Blue Star Mothers of America (founded in 1942 during World War II) in a post focusing on the WWII service of my father-in-law and his three brothers -- all of whom returned home after the war.  The post was also an opportunity to tell briefly the story of the five sons of Thomas and Alleta Sullivan of Waterloo, Iowa.  All five of their sons signed up to serve in the Navy on the condition they serve together -- and they all died together when their light cruiser, the USS Juneau, was torpedoed twice during the Battle of Guadalcanal and its immediate aftermath.

(Lto R) Joseph, Francis, Albert, Madison and George Sullivan.
Photo taken on board the USS Juneau 14 February 1942.

    Few here in America have ever heard of the four Shallis brothers from England who died one-by-one in The Great War (as the British called it). As we now officially begin the week that marked the start of the war to end all wars 100 years ago, I highly recommend that you take a few minutes to watch this poignant video report about the Shallis brothers of England and the ultimate sacrifice that the Shallis family made a century ago.  View the video here.  It is only 4 minutes long. 

The four sons of George and Kate Shallis from Halston, North London, England: Burt, Leo, Harry and George.

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The photograph of the five Sullivan brothers on Valentine's Day 1942 is in the public domain as a work created by an officer or employee of the United States as part of his or her official duties.  http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sullivanbrothers.jpg 

 The photographs of the four Shallis brothers is a screen shot taken from the CNN video at the link provided above.           

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Copyright 2014, John D. Tew

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Military Monday (February 24, 2014): Military Service and Genealogy -- Past, Present and Future

As noted previously here at The Prism, 2014 marks the 100th Anniversary of the start of World War I.  The "Great War" (sometimes referred to as "the war to end war") raged for four years -- from July 28, 1914 until November 11, 1918. It is said to be the fifth most deadly conflict in the history of the world with more than 9 million soldiers and sailors killed, but the deaths including civilian death from disease, starvation, and direct combat-related fatalities range from 15 million to 65 million. The war profoundly affected generations the world over, but it did not end war.

In genealogy, military service is accorded a significant place among the data points that every genealogy software application collects. In blogging it provides us all with an extremely popular and useful writing prompt such as "Military Monday" or some similar appellation.  Our military affects all of us -- directly or indirectly -- it always has and always will.  It is an important and even vital aspect of our national and world history, so it therefore is a part of the study of our genealogies. 

The military is a national necessity and thus it has both a demographic impact and an important economic expense, as this chart depicts for the United States from 1790 - 2006. 

The chart above provides us with an interesting -- if perhaps simplified -- snapshot of our military and economic history over a period of 216 years. At a glance, we can see that, as expected, the demands on our national productivity and wealth have mirrored demands on military service caused by war. The upward spikes represented by the Civil War, World War I, World War II, Korea and Vietnam indicate dramatic increases in the percentage of our population that enter military service and the concommitant surge in the percent of our GDP that goes to support the military and our war efforts. World War II stands out as a supreme effort by what has been dubbed "The Greatest Generation." Whereas prior and subsequent generation(s) have only had about 3% of the population in military service, the World War II generation(s) were called to service at almost three times that percentage (about 8.5%). At the same time, those generations were called to devote more than one third of the national productivity to supporting that war (about twice the demand for WWI).

The world remains a very volatile and dangerous place. As the chart below starkly indicates, the necessity and importance of military capability -- and the cost to this nation and the world -- are not likely to go away any time soon. The beginning of this century has unfortunately seen a near constant state of war for the United States; this is so even as the percentage of our population serving in the military has shrunk to about one half of 1% and the percentage of our GDP devoted to military expenditures has been on a steady decline since the early 1950s from about 13% of GDP to a 2006 rate of just over 4% of GDP.

For those of us involved in genealogy, the need to research military service records is not going away, but the nature and extent of that aspect of genealogy research is going to change in the future if these charts have anything to tell us! 

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Image of Flanders Field from http://mapleleafmorning.com/Nov11.html

U.S. Military Personnel and Eexpenditures chart with permission granted at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:US_military_personnel_and_expenditures.png

Source for U.S. defense budget as compared to the next ten countries with the largest defense budgets in 2012 as shown in the chart.

For more information about the phrase "the war to end war," see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_war_to_end_war  

For more information about World War I, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I#Legacy

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Copyright 2014, John D. Tew

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Military Monday (February 10, 2014) -- The Mystery of a World War I service medal presented to Everett S. Carpenter

Depicted here is a World War I service medal presented to my maternal grandfather, Everett Shearman Carpenter (Feb. 22, 1891 - Jan. 6, 1962).

This medal was presented not by the federal government, but rather by an organization called the "Barryville and New Village Relief Association." Thus far I have not been able to find out more about this organization other than the single hit obtained in a Google search for "Barryville and New Village Relief Association." The single search result is a link to WorthPoint.com where an identical medal is shown as having been sold at auction on December 10, 2006.  The auction listing states that Barryville is a town in Sullivan County, New York.  It sits on the Delaware River across from Shohola, Pennsylvania, but no information is available from the site about a "New Village."  With respect to the medal itself, the site states, "Scarce; this is the only one I have seen."

  

The reverse side of the medal reads as follows: "Presented to [above a blank engraving scroll] by the Barryville and New Village Relief Association in grateful recognition of his service in the WORLD WAR."  In very fine print at the bottom left and right are the words "W. & H. Co." on the left and "Newark, N.J." on the right. My grandfather's medal is in a heavy brown-paper folder that identifies the W. & H. Co. as "The Whitehead & Hoag  Co., Newark, N.J.  Fine Bronze Medals & Badges." 

This medal now presents a bit of a mystery because my grandfather never lived in the state of New York except for the short time he spent at Watervliet Arsenal north of Albany, New York -- which is almost 150 miles northeast of Barryville. This raises the question of why the "Barryville and New Village Relief Association" would present a World War I service medal to someone who was born, raised, lived and died in Cumberland, Rhode Island.

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Photograph of the World War I service medal is from the original medal in the collection of the author.

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Copyright 2014, John D. Tew

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Military Monday (January 27, 2014) -- World War I "Welcome Home Celebration" in Lonsdale, Rhode Island

My maternal grandfather, Everett S. Carpenter, served in World War I in the Army Ordnance Department. He enlisted on January 1, 1918 and was stationed first at Watervliet Arsenal near Albany, New York until May 10, 1918 when he was transferred to Camp Merritt, New Jersey to await transport to Europe. He sailed for France on May 26, 1918.

After landing at Bordeaux on Sunday, June 9, 1918, Everett served in France until July 1919 when he was ordered to Paris to receive reports he was to courier to Washington, DC.  He sailed with the reports from Brest, France on July 7, 1919 and arrived in New York on the 13th. He then took the night rain to Washington and delivered the reports with which he had been entrusted. He was honorably discharged from the Army at Camp Meigs in Washington, DC on July 17, 1919 with the rank of Ordnance Sergeant. Everett arrived home in Lonsdale (Cumberland), Rhode Island in the morning of July 18, 1919.

As the ticket above shows, a "Welcome Home Celebration" for WWI veterans was held in Lonsdale on September 13, 1919 -- two months after my grandfather returned home from his service in the war. [The formal end of WWI came with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles with Germany on June 28, 1919; however, the U.S. public objected to the Treaty of Versailles because of its creation of the League of Nations and so the United States did not formally end its World War I involvement until the signing of the 1921 Knox-Porter Resolution.]

The location of the Welcome Home Celebration banquet and dance was at Lonsdale Hall. Lonsdale is a village (and since 1984 a historic district) in Lincoln and Cumberland, Rhode Island. Originally the village of Lonsdale was part of the town of Smithfield, Rhode Island until the town of Lincoln was created in 1871 and named in honor of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln's villages include Manville, Albion, Lime Rock, Fairlawn, Quinnville, and Saylesville as well as Lonsdale.

According to the February 20, 1984 National Register of Historic Places Inventory -- Nomination Form for Lonsdale Historic District, Lonsdale Hall was built in 1869 by the Lonsdale Company as a community meeting place and commercial center. It was the "social and commercial center of the village." The Lonsdale industrial village, which is now a historic district, was built between 1831 and the 1920s by the Lonsdale Company.

The Lonsdale Company was chartered in 1834 and grew out of the Lonsdale Water Power Company founded by the firm of Brown & Ives in about 1825. The Water Power Company began buying up water rights and properties along the Blackstone River in the towns of Cumberland and Smithfield and in 1831 started construction of its first mill (Lonsdale Mill No. 1). Subsequently, the company organized a village around its mill and named the village "Lonsdale." The mill village included a school, church, store, houses, tenements, and -- in 1869 -- the construction of a community social meeting place known as "Lonsdale Hall."

I have been unable to find a photograph of Lonsdale Hall, but the National Register Nomination Form referred to above describes the building (at page 12 of the form) as follows:

                    A long, 3 1/2 story, brick building; its cornice is bracketed and its windows set

                    under segmental arches between brick piers. [As of the date of the 1984 report]

                    the first floor has been modified with large plate glass windows and a stucco

                    covering. The Hall was built by the Lonsdale Company as a community meeting

                    place and commercial center. It housed the local library, club rooms, and a

                    meeting hall on the upper floors; small shops occupied the first floor -- in 1888

                    there were a drug store, barber shop, dry goods store, and bakery here.  

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Original September 13, 1919 "Welcome Home Celebration" ticket in the personal collection of the author.

For more information about the Lonsdale Company and its records, see the "Guide to the Lonsdale Company Records 1831 - 1946" (2009) by the Rhode Island Historical Society http://library.brown.edu/riamco/xml2pdffiles/US-RHi-mss9sg2.pdf 

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Copyright 2014, John D. Tew

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Military Monday (December 9, 2013)

Last Friday I posted a photo of my wife's grandfather, G. Douglas Jeffs, in his WWI Canadian Expeditionary Force uniform.  Today I post the Canadian Expeditionary Force Certificate of Service issued to George Douglas Jeffs, who was a physician and served in Canada and England with the Canadian Army Medical Corps (C.A.M.C.).  He served aboard the hospital ship H.M.H.S Araguya.

Dr. Jeffs was commissioned in the C.A.M.C. on May 2, 1917 and served until he was "STRUCK OFF THE STRENGTH" on July 9, 1919 "by reason of General Demobilization."
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Scan of the original Certificate of Service document which is in the family documents collection.

Image of the H.M.H.S Araguya from http://www.ebay.it/itm/AMBULANCE-SHIP-HMHS-Araguaya-Royal-Mail-Steam-Packet-Steamer-Co-postcard-/281161429197
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Copyright 2013, John D. Tew
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Friday Fotos (December 6, 2013) -- George Douglas Jeffs in WWI

Capt. George Douglas Jeffs (1893 - 1980)

George Douglas Jeffs was born on November 25, 1893 in Havelock, Ontario, Canada.  He is my wife's maternal grandfather and the great grandfather of our two sons.

"Doug" Jeffs was a physician as was his father, Dr. William Henry Maines Jeffs.  During World War I, Dr. G. Douglas Jeffs was a Captain in the Canadian Army Medical Corps (C.A.M.C.) and was part of the Canadian Over-Seas Expeditionary Force, having served with the 10th Field Ambulance Corp.  He served from February 9, 1917 to July 9, 1919. 

Doug Jeffs was the second of two sons of Dr. William H. M. Jeffs (1864 - 1933) and his wife, Minnie Brown (1862 - 1950).  Doug's older brother, Howard, was also a physician.

William Jeffs (1813 - 1894)             m.    Margaret Weir (1819 - 1894)

James Jeffs (1838 - 1916)                m.    Sarah Jane Maines (1845 - 1931)

William H.M. Jeffs (1864 - 1933)    m.    Minnie Brown (1862 - 1950)

G. Douglas Jeffs (1893 - 1980)        m.    Eulalie Lillian Mary Jeffs (1893 - 1984)

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Photograph from my wife's collection of family photos.

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Copyright 2013, John D. Tew

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Wordless Wednesday (November 27, 2013) -- My Grandfather's WWI Troop Billet Aboard the U.S.S. Imperator

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Scanned image of original WWI Troop Billet of Everett S. Carpenter now in the collection of the author.

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Copyright 2013, John D. Tew

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Military Monday (Veterans Day, November 11, 2013) -- WWI Military Honor Roll, Wallingford, Connecticut

Wallingford, Connecticut Town Hall

Among the Honor Roll memorials located on the grounds of the Wallingford, Connecticut Town Hall is one "Dedicated in Honor and in Memory of Those Men and Women of Wallingford Who Served in the World War 1917 - 1918."  As we are on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the start of the so-called "war to end war," which began on July 28, 1914, it is appropriate that on this Veterans Day 2013 photographs of the full memorial and panel shots of the names of those Wallingford, Connecticut residents honored for their WWI service are featured in today's post.

The wording on this particular memorial is important to note because it points to the distinction between Memorial Day and Veterans Day here in the U.S.  While Memorial Day is a day of remembrance for the men and women who died while serving, Veterans Day celebrates (as this memorial states) those who served.

In the British Commonwealth countries, November 11th is known as Poppy Day, Armistice Day, or Remembrance Day to remember the members of their service branches who died in the line of duty.  It is celebrated on November 11th to recall the cessation of the hostilities of World War I "at the 11th hour of the 11th day of the 11th month."  [That war formally ended with the signing of the Treaty of Versailles on June 28, 1919.  Over 9 million servicemen from all sides were killed during WWI making it the fifth or sixth deadliest conflict in world history!] 

Originally, November 11th was celebrated as "Armistice Day" in the United States too when President Woodrow Wilson proclaimed November 11, 1919 as a holiday so that "the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country's service . . . "  In 1938 Congress passed legislation making November 11th a legal holiday each year "to be dedicated to the cause of world peace and to be thereafter celebrated and known as 'Armistice Day'."  Then, in 1945, a veteran of World War II (Raymond Weeks from Alabama) decided Armistice Day should be broadened to remember and celebrate not only those who died in World War I, but it should celebrate and remember all veterans who served in the armed services of the United Sates.  Dwight Eisenhower supported the idea of the expansion of Armistice Day and by act of Congress in 1954 "Veterans" replaced "Armistice" in the name of our November 11th holiday.  It has been known as Veterans Day ever since and its intent is to celebrate and remember all veterans and not just hose who died in World War I or other wars. 

World War I Honor Roll Memorial (Wallingford, Connecticut -- November 2013)

The following is an alphabetical list of about 560 men and women celebrated and remembered on the Wallingford, Connecticut World War I Honor Roll memorial. Every one of them is gone now, but they and their service are not forgotten!

Close-up photographs of the name panels on the memorial follow the list below, but be aware that the list is not entirely alphabetical as I have caught at least one error -- Lobb, Kenneth D. is out of order as he follows Myers, William H. on the name panels. Also, hard as it is to believe, there apparently are no veterans of WWI from Wallingford with surnames beginning with the letter "N."  

[As the photographs of the name panels clearly show, some of the names are preceded by a star.  The stars before a name indicate that the person named "died in service."  Those who locate a name of an ancestor or relative on the following list, should also consult the name panel photographs to see if the ancestor's or relative's name is preceded by a star and therefore he or she "died in service."]

Abbott, George C.                    Ahearn, Eugene J.                    Altschuler, Maurice

Ames, Joseph C.                       Anderson, Oscar                      Anthony, Henry W.

Anthony, Robert                       Apamoutec, John J.                 Artioli, Enrico

Atkinson, Percy                        Backes, Clifford B.                  Backes, Edward B.

Backes, Raymond                    Backes, Roger O.                     Bailey, John W.

Bakanas, Karl                           Balough, Alex                          Bandero, Louis

Bannell, Walter S.                    Barry, Edward S.                      Bartek, John S.

Beaudoin, William L.               Beaudoin, Zoel                         Beaumont, George B.

Beck, Jacob C.                         Becroft, Silas W.                       Beers, Philo E.

Bender, Bennie                        Benziger, Frederick C.              Berdofsky, Louis J.

Bernardo, Claudio                    Bertini, Ralph E.                       Bertini, William DEF.

Bevans, Joseph J.                     Beverly, Theodore S.                Blagbrough, Harry C.

Blanchard, Albert R.                Blanchard, Ralph H.                 Blinn, William L.

Bolton, Raymond W.               Bordeleau, William G.              Borghi, Ernest C.

Bossidy, Francis W.                 Bossidy, James E.                     Bossidy, Joseph T.

Bremer, Ernest                         Brennan, John F.                       Brennan, William J.

Bridgett, Frank E.                    Bridgetts, James H.                    Briggs, Carlton D.

Briggs, Morton D.                   Bronsord, William J.                  Brooks, Edward C. 

Brooks, Robert W.                   Brow, Arthur J.                         Brow, Robert R. 

Brown, Ray                             Bruton, George                          Bruton, Leo

Bryson, Robert                        Buckley, William                       Bullis, Carlton G.

Bullis, Clifford N.                    Bullus, George R.                      Burghoff, Harrold R.

Burke, Bryant L.                      Burns, James P.                         Burns, William T.

Butler, Edmund V.                  Butler, William V.                      Caples, Jeremiah

Carey, Jesse G.                        Carmen, Edward F.                   Carroll, Francis W.

Carroll, John F.                        Carroll, William J.                     Carty, James F.

Case, Harold L.                        Casey, Edward J.                      Casey, Frank W.

Cassin, Matthew J.                   Cavalieri, Anthony R.               Cavalieri, John                           Ceregioli, Peter                         Chapel, George                        Chase, Harry H.                         Chordas, Burton                       Clack, Albert E.                        Clark, Arthur H.

Clark, Louis N.                         Clarke, Felix W.                       Clement, Henry J.

Coffey, John G.                        Coffey, Richard J.                     Comerford, John E.

Comerford, Patrick J.                Condon, Joseph H.                   Condon, Robert W.

Cook, Frank D.                         Cook, George E.                       Cooper, James W.

Corcoran, Frank                        Cottrill, John R. Jr.                    Coughlin, Edward J.

Cowles, Philip B.                      Craig, G. Ludlow                      Crossley, William

Curran, Timothy E.                   Curran, William F.                    Cushman, Raymond J.

Daly, Edward T.                       Daly, George J.                         Daly, John E.

Davis, John T.                          Davis, Ralph L.                         Deghello, Alexander S.

Degnan, Joseph F.                    Delaney, Irving J.                      Delaney, Raymond E.

Delehanty, Helen                      Delehanty, Robert T.                 Della Vecchia, Michele

Del Rosso, Leo F.                     Del Rosso, Margaret V.            Del Rosso, Raymond L.

Dembizak, Charles                    Dembizak, John K.                   Dembroski, Teddy

Deming, Harry C.                      Des Jardins, Louis A.               Dineen, Gerald

Docker, William                         Doehr, William F.                    Dondero, Frank

Dontigny, George                      Dorau, Conrad O.                     Doty, Helen

Dougan, Clarence                      Dougan, John M.                      Down, Helen

Downey, George J.                    Downey, John E.                      Doyle, Frank P.

Driver, Wiliiam H.                     Drum, Francis P.                       Drum, Veronica

DuBois, Dennis O.                    DuBois, George A.                   DuBois, William D.

Dunn, Walter                              Dwyer, Michael W.                  Elovetsky, Stanley

Eriksen, Arthur                           Eylward, James E.                    Fassio, Bartolomio

Fassio, Mario                              Feinblum, Nathan                     Ferriere, Edward D.

Fields, Charles L.                       Filippo, Louis J.                        Filippo, Roxy

Fitzgerald, Edmund P.                Flechsig, Edwin A.                  Fleming, Joseph P.

Ford, Sidney                               Ford, William E.                      Francis, Edward B.

Francis, William H.                     Fredericks, David H.               Friderich, Roland C.

Fritz, Frank                                 Fritz, Harry F.                          Furniss, Clarence V.

Gallagher, Joseph F.                   Gallagher, Thomas P.               Gammons, Charles, W.

Gannon, John J.                          Gardner, Edgar E.                     Gardner, George A.

Gargaly, Frank A.                       Gargaly, Stephen J.                  Gariepy, Clifford J.

Gaudette, William F.                   Gawaski, Joseph B.                 Gentile, Vincent

Gibbs, William H.                       Gillooly, Thomas J.                  Gingras, Richard H.

Goff, Clarence H.                        Goldstein, Abe                         Granucci, Henry N.

Graser, Frank K.                          Grasser, Raymond F.               Griffin, James D.

Griffith, John                                Griswold, Harold M.               Gross, Henry J.

Gross, John A.                             Guilbeault, Gilbert                    Hackbarth, Robert R.

Hackbarth, Rudolph                     Hadrick, Joseph                       Hajdu, Albert

Hall, Randolph                             Hall, Theodore P.                     Hamill, Leroy F.

Hammerly, Herman J.                  Harrington, Raymond T.          Harrington, Timothy J.

Hartlein, George H.                      Hartman, Carl W.                     Hartman, Frank

Hassett, Charles                            Hassett, Ethel W.                      Hassett, George H.

Hayden, Frank L.                         Hayden, John E.                       Hayden, Raymond F.

Heath, Walter R.                           Heaton, William C.                  Heilman, Norman

Hemenway, Courtenay                 Hems, Robert P.                       Hennessy, John P.

Hennessey, Dennis J.                    Hennessey, Norinne J.             Hennessey, Robert

Herlach, Mathias A.                      Herr, Earl H.                            Heslin, Charles T.

Heslin, James F.                            Hill, George E.                         Hillbom, Erik A.

Hillbom, Ralph                              Hillbom, Waldo S.                   Hinckley, Clayton

Hinckley, Stanley R.                      Hiob, Emil R.                          Hodgkinson, Harold D.

Holroyd, William C.                      Hopkins, Charles                     Hopkins, Russell N.

Hotchkiss, Charles                         Houlihan, Robert A.                Houson, Maxwell M.

Howe, Ernest                                 Howe, George M.                    Howe, William L.

Hubbell, Harry R.                          Hunt, Stanley D.                      Ives, Clifford G.

Ives, Harold, R.                              Jacek, Martin                           James, Albert S.

Jeralds, Chester W.                         Jeralds, Louis B.                      Jionette, Harry

Johnson, Wilbur H.                        Judd, Howard S.                      Kane, Charles H.

Kane, Charles M.                           Kane, John W.                         Karpie, John

Keeler, Harold                               Kelly, Edward W.                    Kelly, Frederick B.

Kelly, James C.                              Kelly, John J.                           Kelly, John W.

Kelly, Robert P.                             Kelly, Thomas F.                      Kennedy, James G.

Kennedy, Michael F.                     Kenney, Michael J.                   Kenney, Peter

Kepes, Elizabeth B.                       Kershaw, Frank                        Kershaw, William H.

Killen, Albert E.                            Kirkby, Ernest                          Kiviatowski, Alexander

Knopf, William H.                         Knowlton, Norman B.             Knox, John B.

Konopka, Stanley                          Kowalski, Stephen S.               Kowalski, William J.F.

Krajewski, Benjamin                     Krajewski, William P.              Krupp, Harry A.

Kuczmarski, Joseph                       Kumnick, Frank A.                  La Course, Omar

La Croix, Arthur                            Lacy, James E.                         Laden, James J.

Lahaika, Iafrem                              Lane, Harold B.                       Lanquette, Daniel W.

Latham, Thomas J.                         Lathrop, Stanley P.                  Latourunes, Ambrose

Law, William H.                            Lengyel, Andrew                     Leonard, John A.

Leveille, Wilbrod J.                       Liedke, Walter W.                    Lindauer, Bernard J.

Logan, Robert J.                            Loiko, Vincent                         Loomis, Fred B.

Loughlin, Edward J.                      Loughlin, William P.                Lounsbury, Charles

Lucas, Orville, W.                         Lufbery, Raoul                         Lufbery, Rene N.

Lukazevich, Walter                       Maddocks, Harold J.                 Magatte, Joseph

Magee, George R.                         Malchiodi, Louis                       Malmquist, Almar C.

Malmquist, Eric C.                        Malmquist, Harold C.                Malmquist, Nils C.

Malmquist, Olof C.                        Manfreda, Maelis                      Mansfield, A. Irving

Mansfield, Woodford S.                Marc Aurele, Donald                 Marcewski, Roman

Marckoon, Paul P.                         Margolin, Benjamin                  Maxted, Thomas A.

May, John E.                                 McCune, Clarence C.                McDonald, Norval H.

McElrath, Leland F.                      McErlean, Laurance                  McGahie, Alton H.

McGahie, Douglas S.                    McGarra, Edward G.                McGarry, Edward H.

McGaughey, James D.                  McKenzie, Alexander M.         McKeon, James M.

McKerness, William J.                  McKnight, Arthur                     McKnight, Orren B.

McLaughlin, Francis J.                 McLaughlin, Thomas J.             McNulty, Patrick J.

Mellor, George W.                        Merchant, John J.                      Mezzel, Joseph

Michalke, Albert H.                      Milcke, Alan W.                        Milici, Salvatore

Mitchell, George C.                      Molinari, Guiseppe                    Moran, John J.

Morgan, Oscar                              Moulton, Guy E.                       Mounsey, William

Munson, Craig D.                         Murphy, James J.                      Murphy, John J.

Murphy, Thomas J.                       Murray, James                          Myers, Harold T.

Myers, Ray C.                               Myers, William H.                    Lobb, Kenneth D.

O'Brien, Frederick C.                    O'Brien, Robert E.                    O'Brien, William B.

O'Callaghan, John M.                   O'Connell, Benedict M.             O'Connell, Helen

O'Connell, Mark E.                       O'Dea, James                             Ohr, Andrew L.

Ollayos, Frank W.                         O.Neill, Maurice F.                   Paden, Thomas J.

Pagnam, Robert B.                        Pagnam, Thomas J.                   Parker, Sherman C.

Partridge, James P.                        Paskiewicz, Alexander              Passerino, John B.

Pattee, Katherine C.                      Patterson, James P.                    Patzkoska, Edward J.

Payden, Charles F.                        Payden, John F.                        Pender, David E.

Perry, Maurice R.                          Peterson, Reuben E.                 Phelan, Celestin G.

Phelan, Paul A.                             Philippi, John R.                       Phoenix, William J.

Pinsker, Joseph                             Poggio, Secondo                       Porter, Leslie A.

Porto, Francis                                Powers, John J.                         Powers, Maurice

Powers, Ralph H.                          Powers, William E.                   Powers, William J.

Prageman, Irving H.                      Pratt, William A.                       Prizzi, Alphonse

Quiggley, Francis H.                     Quinlan, John P.                       Quinlivan,  Thomas F.

Quinn, Edward J.                          Quinn, Harry T.                        Quinn, James J.

Quinn, William P.                          Reed, Albert                             Reed, Kenneth T.

Reilly, George                               Reilly, James C.                        Reilly, William T. 

Rice, Augustus A.                         Riley, Edward                           Riley, John J.

Riley, John Joseph                        Riotte, Harry C.                         Riotte, Joseph A.

Riotte, William P.                          Roberge, Romeo J.                    Robinson, John T.

Roche, Leo H.                               Roche, Robert E.                       Rogan, Charles V.

Rogan, John J.                               Rogan, William F.                     Rogers, Frank D.

Rogers, William J.                         Rohowsky, Albert                     Rosene, Hilmer

Roslund, Harry O.                         Rovegno, Frank P.                    Rowdie, Carime T.

Rushworth, Edwin                        Rushworth, William                  Russell, Donald G.

Russell, Donato                             Satton, John J.                           Scheffer, Carl W.

Schenker, Andrew                        Schmitter, Ernest                       Schultz, Albert J.

Schultz, August A.                       Schultz, Joseph P.                      Scott, Earl W.

Seichter, Adolph                           Self, Bert A.                              Semenza, Bernard

Semrau, Albert H.                         Shaw, John T.                           Shaw, Stanley

Sheehan, Albert T.                        Sheehan, Mark T.                      Sheehy, Henry P.

Sheehy, John J.                             Shipke, John                              Simon, Charles W.

Simone, Joseph A.                        Sinon, Thomas P.                      Sizer, S. Oliver

Skovinski, Paul P.                         Small, Harold A.                       Smith, Alfred

Smith, Charles E.                          Smith, Charles H.                      Smith, Clarence R.

Smith, Floyd                                 Smith, Howard L.                      Smith, Martin H.

Smith, Wilbur W.                         Smith, William                            Spolite, Dominick F.

St. Arnauld, William J.                 St. Cartier, Lucien F.                  Stearns, C. Edmund

Stearns, Harold T.                        Steele, George                            Steiniger, Joseph M.

Stevens, Maltby                           Stimpson, Charles                       Stimpson, Robert W.

Stone, Thomas D.                        Stone, William J.                         Stuart, Roy F.

Sullivan, Francis P.                      Sullivan, James F.                       Sutton, James J.

Szad, Carl C.                                Szad, Edward H.                        Talbot, Milton A.

Tassmer, Peter P.                         Taylor, Edmund P.                      Taylor, John H.

Terrell, Charles W.                      Terrell, Willard F.                        Tierney, Charles A.

Tierney, Patrick H.                      Torrey, Arthur F.                         Toth, John

Totz, Robert                                 Townsend, Bernard W.              Townsend, William W.

Trabold, Edward R.                     Turner, Fred I.                             Tuttle, Harry W.

Twing, Raymond                         Twiss, George R.                        Uniacke, Charles L.

Uniacke, Ralph R.                       Valenti, Alfred                             Vollhardt, Edwin C.

Vollhardt, Philip H.                      Wahl, Edward                             Wallace, Floyd

Wallace, Truman A.                     Ward, William W.                        Warren, William S.

Way, Chauncey O.                       Wendelken, Frederick                  Werner, Frederick

Werner, Gustave F.                       Werpechowski, Stanley               Wheelock, Richsrd L.

Whitehouse, Wilson H.                 Whiton, Edward L.                      Wilcox, Harry W.

Wilkes, Robert E.                          Wilkins, Harold S.                       Williams, Arnold

Williams, Frank B.                         Williams, Horace P.                    Williams, Russell F.

Wooding, Kenneth E.                    Wooding, Raymond F.                Wrinn, Charles M.

Wrinn, Edward C.                          Wrinn, Frank T.                           Wrinn, James E.

Wrynn, William F.                         Wustrack, Edward B.                   Wustrack, Frederick

Zagata, John                                   Zimmer, John

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Image of the Veterans Day poster for 2013 is in the public domain as a work prepared by an officer or employee of the United States as part of that person's official duties. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Veterans_Day_2013_Poster.jpg

All Memorial photographs by, and courtesy of, Bruce O. Marquardt.

Photograph of Wallingford Town Hall by the author.

Honor Roll name transcription by the author.

To learn more about World War I, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_War_I .  To learn more about the history of Armistice Day and Veterans Day in the United States, see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veterans_Day and the links there to Armistice Day and Remembrance Day in other countries.

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