Memorial

Dedicated: November 11, 1991

The taller center marble wall features an inset bronze sculpture of five U.S. servicemen representing,
WW1, WW2, Korea, Vietnam and Desert Storm/War On Terror. It also has the formal dedication text
and dedication date. Two marble walls on the far left side, list the names of those who served and Made
The Supreme Sacrifice in Korea and World War II an additional wall left of the center column continues
the list of WW2 service members. The wall to the immediate right is for World War I. The two on the far
right carry the names of those who served and Made The Supreme Sacrifice in Vietnam, Persian Gulf
and the War On Terror. Each resident from Pike County who served, is listed here. If the name has a
cross in front of it, that soldier, sailor, airman or marine was KIA (Killed In Action). An asterisk indicates
they are MIA (Missing In Action). A hashtag stands for POW (Prisoner Of War). An asterisk indicates they
were WIA (Wounded In Action). A check mark refers to the difference between Vietnam Veterans who
served “In Country” and those who were Vietnam “Era” Veterans.

This World War I Monument was placed by the Oliver Wiley Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution to honor the men from Pike County who served in the World War.

This monument is a 13.5' high by 10.5' wide bronze sculpture containing five figures stands in front of a granite wall and on an inscribed granite base. The uniformed figures represent members of the United States Marines and Army (front row), and Air Corps and Navy (back row). Rising above them in the center is the Goddess of War, wearing a helmet and breast plate. She is holding a laurel branch, symbolizing victory, in her raised right hand and holds up a spear and shield in her left hand. The sculpture was created bu Augustus Lukeman in 1925 and cast at the Roman Bronze Works, N.Y.

The base of the monument contains two reliefs of wreaths and is inscribed:

1917-1918
A TRIBUTE TO THE LOYALTY
AND SACRIFICE OF HER SONS
AND DAUGHTERS WHO GLORIOUSLY
DEFENDED THE LIBERTIES WON
BY THEIR FATHERS
ERECTED BY THE CITY OF PITTSFIELD
1926

In front of the monument is a stone urn which is inscribed on the top rim : FIDELIS AD MORTEM SUPRA. The bronze plaque on top of the urn is inscribed:

PITTSFIELD VETERANS MEMORIAL

FIDELIS AD MORTEM SUPRA

“FAITHFUL UNTO DEATH AND BEYOND”

THE SCULPTOR

HENRY AUGUSTUS LUKEMAN (1871-1935) WAS AN AMERICAN SCULPTOR,
SPECIALIZING IN HISTORICAL MONUMENTS. HE WAS BORN IN RICHMOND, VA,
AND STUDIED UNDER DANIEL CHESTER FRENCH IN NEW YORK, AND AT THE
BEAUX-ARTS IN PARIS. HIS WORKS INCLUDE STONE MOUNTAIN IN GEORGIA,
AND LOCALLY, THE MCKINLEY STATUE IN ADAMS, MA

THE PARK AND MONUMENT

IN 1923, THE CITY OF PITTSFIELD ESTABLISHED THIS SITE AS
MEMORIAL PARK AND COMMISSIONED THE CONSTRUCTION OF A
WAR MEMORIAL. ON JULY 8, 1926 THIS SOLDIERS’ ANS SAILORS’
MEMORIAL WAS DEDICATED AS THE PEACE MEMORIAL IN TRIBUTE
TO PITTSFIELD’S SONS AND DAUGHTERS WHO SERVED IN
WORLD WAR I. ON MAY 31, 2010 THIS MEMORIAL WAS
REDEDICATED FOLLOWING EXTENSIVE RESTORATION.
IT CONTINUES TO STAND AS A SYMBOLIC SHRINE FOR
ALL VETERANS WHO HAVE SERVED SO GALLANTLY
DEFENDING THEIR COUNTRY IN THE
PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE.

This sculpture, placed in Lincoln Park in downtown Newark, was designed by Charles Henry Niehaus, described as one of the foremost monumental sculptors of his generation. 

In 1920, Niehaus received  the commission for this Newark monument. At the base of a tall slender column is a bronze sculpture depicting four soldiers planting a flag. One figure holds the flag about to be unfurled, two figures hold the flagpole in place, and the fourth figure secures the pole at its base. The column is topped by an American eagle. The sculptures rest atop an octagonal base adorned with four reliefs representing Patriotism, Sacrifice, Law and Order, and Fraternity. The base of the sculpture is surrounded by a metal fence.

Niehaus also completed two statues in memory of assassinated President James Garfield.  His first nationally known commission was his 1900 sculpture of Dr. Samuel Hahneman, erected in Scott Circle in Washington, DC. 

Narrative adapted from Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS) inventory #76001630, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, "Charles Henry Niehaus." 

Photos courtesy of:  Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS)

The inscription on this memorial tablet, located on right side of the Plaquemine City Hall building main entrance, reads:

Memorial Tablet
Dedicated by Plaquemine Tribe

To her hero members
who took part in the
World War of 1917-1918
Henry Dardenne Kill'd in France
Dr. H.F. Vulliamy • Dr. A.A.Landry,
M. Tullie • Joe Thibodeaux,
W. Richard • Elmer Schuler,
W.P. Obier • W.H. Hakenjos,
C.C. Nuebig, Jr • D. Calhoun

Stephen Stevens

Bronze plaque, front:
IN MEMORIAM / TO THE SOLDIERS AND SAILORS OF THE / FIFTH WARD WHO MADE THE / SUPREME SACRIFICE. / HEROIC DEAD: / GEORGE C. ANDROVETTE --- PHILIP P. GLISMANN / WALTON U. BEAUVAIS --- ALONZO HERBSTREET / MARTIN O. BROWN --- CLARENCE KLINGER / THOMAS CAVALLO --- PETER MASSEY / MARTIN L. DIETZ --- JOHN W. O'MEARA JR. / JOHN L. GARDNER --- ALMER G. RUSSELL / ELWOOD LAFORGE SMITH. / ERECTED BY THE CITIZENS OF THE FIFTH WARD / IN HONOR OF THE SOLDIERS AND SAILORS / WHO SERVED THEIR COUNTRY IN THE / WORLD WAR OF 1914-1918. /

Bronze plaques on three sides:
[Listing the 480 names of soldiers and sailors from the Fifth Ward who served in World War I and survived]

Integral plinth, rear left: 
MODERN ART FOUNDRY 1996 / MA CAST 96

Integral plinth, proper right: 
DIANE AND GLENN HINES, SC 1996 AFTER ORIGINAL BY GEORGE THOMAS BREWSTER, 1923 /

This Honor Roll lists the residents from Pleasant Ridge who served during the First World War.  The inscription reads:

LEST WE FORGET

Let Us Hold in Honored Memory Those Who Served Their Country in the Great War * 1917 - 1918 *

The names on this Memorial are listed in no particular order, but PVT. Thorvald Brendan, U.S. Army
is confirmed to have served in WW1 and was a casualty of that war. We have included all current
names on the memorial to be sure other WW! service members are also listed here. Also included
is a picture of the 1st Infantry Division WW1 Memorial Monument on the Meuse-Argonne Battlefield
in France. His name is among the 1,137 Division members listed on the monument who were lost
in “The World War”.

The Polar Bear Monument depicts a menacing polar bear, sculpted from white Georgian marble, advancing past a cross with a WWI helmet strapped to it.  Designed by sculptor Leon Hermant, it is a monument to the "Polar Bears", a portion of Michigan's 339th Infantry Regiment, who were sent to Archangel in Northern Russia in 1918 to prevent a German advance and help reopen the Eastern Front. Instead, they fought Bolshevik revolutionaries for months after the Armistice ended the official fighting. They had killed 94 before they withdrew in April of 1919.  In 1929, two commissions were sent to Archangel to recover the bodies, and they found the remains of 86 of the men.  On Memorial Day in 1930, 56 of them were buried here.  

In 1988, the Monument and surrounding graves were recognized as a registered Michigan Historic Site and a state historical marker was erected nearby.  The marker reads as follows (note that the text provides the wrong number of burials that actually took place on May 30, 1930):

THE POLAR BEARS 

(SIDE ONE) 
In the summer of 1918, President Woodrow Wilson, at the urging of Britain and France, sent an infantry regiment to north Russia to fight the Bolsheviks in hopes of persuading Russia to rejoin the war against Germany. The 339th Infantry Regiment, with the first battalion of the 310th Engineers and the 337th Ambulance and Hospital Companies, arrived at Archangel, Russia, on September 4, 1918. About 75 percent of the fifty-five hundred Americans who made up the North Russian Expeditionary Forces were from Michigan; of those a majority were from Detroit. The newspapers called them "Detroit's Own,"; they called themselves "Polar Bears." They marched on Belle Isle on July 4, 1919. Ninety-four of them were killed in action after the United States decided to withdraw from Russia but before Archangel's harbor thawed. 

(SIDE TWO) 
In 1929, five former "Polar Bears" of the 339th Infantry Regiment returned to north Russia in an attempt to recover the bodies of fellow soldiers who had been killed in action or died of exposure or disease ten years earlier. The group was selected by the members of the Polar Bear Association under the auspices of the Veterans of Foreign Wars. The trip was sponsored by the federal government and the state of Michigan. The delegates recovered eighty-six bodies. Fifty-six of these were buried on this site on May 30, 1930. The Polar Bear monument was carved from white Georgian marble; the steps, from white North Carolina granite. The black granite base symbolizes a fortress, and the cross and helmet denote war burial.

This memorial is located outside the administrative office building of the St. Adalbert mausoleum. It features a series of bronze statues depicting servicemembers from different branches.

Located in Veteran’s Memorial Park, an obelisk inscribed listing deaths from WW1, WW2, Korea and Vietnam.  Six (6) names appear on the WW1 section.  Only combat deaths are listed, including one from the sinking of the HMS Otranto.

Inscription: “The City of Cedartown and Brewster-Cleveland Post 86 - American Legion - Dedicate this monument to the glory of God in honor of the men and women who lost their lives while serving against the enemies of the United States of America - Dedicated November 6, 2004.”

A separate POW marker lists one name from WW1.

This memorial is located within the Ponca Tribal Cemetery. The memorial is composed of a black granite dedication stone, a large black granite wall inscribed with veteran’s names, another wall bearing the seals of the branches of the military, and three raised flags: the US flag, the Oklahoma flag, and the Ponca Tribal flag. 

IN HONOR / OF THE MEN AND WOMEN OF / THE PORT OF NEW YORK AUTHORITY / WHO SERVED IN OUR COUNTRY / IN WORLD WAR II / [honor roll]

Within the Port Gamble S’Klallam “House of Knowledge” there are four steel sculptures in the form of whale tales bearing the names of community members who have served in the U.S. Military. One of the whale tale sculptures tells the history of their service.

In 1940, during the original dedication of this memorial at Skinners Park, Ora Wheat, commander of Roosa-Fleming VFW Post 161, declared the 20-ton granite disc monument “dedicated to the memory of the living and dead.” Post 161 planned to add later an eternal flame and a marker intended by General Chairman Harold E. Scales during planning stages in 1938.  A re-dedication ceremony on November 11, 2020 included the addition of the flame and a bronze plaque naming the 34 Port Jervis men who gave the ultimate sacrifice in the line of duty during World War I. They are: Joseph M. Alvord, James C. Bilz, William E. Bross, John Collins Jr., Tracy K. Decker, Aloysius A. Delaney, William J. Earley, James Fleming, Lewis V. Gray, George Hamilton, Harrison E. Hornbeck, Norman Howe, Charles Kalin, Walter Koenig, Joseph Mascanz, Elliott McAllister, Joseph McGuire, Charles F. Meade, Hugh Leonard Miller, William Mulligan, Horace Murtha, Francis J. O’Connor, Levi Owens, Daniel Joseph Quigley, Harold Reid, Harold P. Rooney, Isaac H. Roosa, William J. Ryan, Charles Shaneberg, Arthur Sterritt, Bruno Terpilowsky, Samuel Thorne, William Williams, and Fred Youmans.

The memorial is a rough cut stone with an arched top. Mounted to the stone is a rectangular plaque adorned with an eagle with spread wings. The inscription is "Honor Roll World War Portsmouth, Rhode Island." The memorial lists about 90 men who served in WWI from Portsmouth.

This memorial includes a doughboy statue and honor roll listing of all veterans from Pottawatomie County who served during the Great War. Honor rolls for later wars were added on other sides of the concrete base.