Memorial

This is a monument in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park to California foresters who performed an important role during World War I.  

The inscription on the monument reads:

To our brethren who gave their lives

1917-1919

Foresters of America of California

Erected 1927

Dedicated on Dec. 4, 1927, the monument, made of white Italian marble, was planned to serve as a fountain for people and horses. A 1951 photo from the San Francisco Historical Photograph Collection shows a small metal bowl affixed on the monument wall that may have been a water fountain, but it’s not present today. The large marble basin in the monument’s center bottom is both today and in the 1951 photo filled with plants and dirt, but may have been a horse trough earlier. 

For interesting background on this monument, see:  https://sfrichmondreview.com/2020/10/03/looking-back-forester-monument/

This memorial is located inside of the Fort Hall Veterans Memorial Park. It is a concrete memorial inlaid with a plaque which reads: “The Shoshone Bannock Tribes dedicate this memorial in honor of the men and women who served their country in the armed forces of World Wars I and II.” Beneath the dedication, the names of individual veterans are inscribed.

Fort Hancock is located on the north end of Sandy Hook, a narrow Monmouth County peninsula that extends into New York Harbor. Constructed as an installation to defend the harbor from attack, it recently became part of the Gateway National Recreation Area. 

Sandy Hook has played a role in defense as far back as the American Revolution when it served as a base for the Royal Navy in the American Colonies. It became a fort during the Civil War, and in 1888, it was converted to a coastal defense installation. The fort was used to test some of the newest long-range guns in the American arsenal. As additional fortifications and gun emplacements were constructed, facilities for fort personnel were needed, and its first 38 buildings were completed in 1899.

In World War I, the fort continued to be used for coastal defense and featured nine mounted disappearing guns, as well as some of the first searchlights to locate ships in the harbor at night. The last defense system at the fort was a Nike missile battery, phased out in 1974.

Fort Hancock is now part of the Gateway National Recreation Area and is open to visitors year round. A fee for entry is collected during the summer months.

Narrative adapted from Thomas Hoffman, Images of America: Fort Hancock; Arcadia; 2007. 

Photo courtesy of:  National Park Service

This memorial is composed of black granite and it is located within the Fort Núñez Gaona-Diah Veteran's Park.

There is an inscription on the left side of the memorial stone which reads: "This ground dedicated to honor all veterans who served from the Makah Reservation in the military of the United States of America to preserve our freedom. Proudly we served. We all came home."

Inscribed upon the right side of the memorial stone are the military seals, and veteran's names. 

Description and photo from http://www.waymarking.com/waymarks/WM6NQ1_1932_Memorial_Hall_Fort_Scott_Ks

Memorial Hall is still used as a multi-purpose building. Concerts and other functions are held in the main auditorium. The offices below, which once housed the American Legion Post for Fort Scott, now house Fort Scott City Hall.

The Cornerstone Reads:
Memorial Hall Headquarters
Clair C Harkey Post No. 25 and Auxiliary
Dedicated May 30, 1932

There is a dedication plaque above the main entryway that reads:

1925
Memorial Hall was
constructed and dedicated to
"Those men and women who gave their lives
serving our country in World War I"

2001
Memorial Hall is rededicated to
"All of the men and women who have served,
are now serving or will serve
in the Armed Forces
of the United States of America"

"The Merci Train was a train of 49 French railroad box cars filled with tens of thousands of gifts of gratitude from at least that many individual French citizens. They were showing their appreciation for the more than 700 American box cars of relief goods sent to them by (primarily) individual Americans in 1948. The Merci Train arrived in New York harbor on February 3rd, 1949 and each of the 48 American states at that time received one of the gift laden box cars. The 49th box car was shared by Washington D.C. and the Territory of Hawaii. Parades and ceremonies of welcome were conducted in the state capitols and major cities of almost all the states. The largest and most attended was in New York City where more than 200,000 people turned out to welcome that state's assigned box car." 

-Excerpt from http://mercitrain.org/ 

Marble honor roll of 81 Jewish doughboys was unveiled Nov. 11, 1920, and embedded in a wall at Fort Worth's Hebrew Institute. The marble montage was 10 ft. tall and 8 ft. wide. It was made from 5 tablets. The frieze across the top was inscribed with 2 Jewish stars and 2 American flags. The title reads: TRIBUTE TO OUR BOYS=WORLD WAR=1914-1918. In 1951, the marble montage was broken into 5 slabs and stacked in a storage closet. Rediscovered in 1980, four panels were framed and hung in a garden by the entrance to a Congregation Ahavath Sholom's new synagogue at 4050 S. Hulen. The 5th tablet, inscribed with the dedication date and the sponsors, the Ladies Auxiliary to Hebrew Institute, was discarded. Exposed to wind, sun, and rain, the colors on the monument faded until it was white-on-white and only legible up close. However, the memorial has since been restored, as can be seen in the picture gallery. Many soldiers' descendants still live in Fort Worth.

Location:
4050 South Hulen, Congregation Ahavath Sholom, west entrance facing 4800 Briarhaven Lane
Fort Worth, TX, 76116

This life-size metal statue, sponsored by the Service Star Legion War Mothers, depicts a WWI infantryman advancing through the barbed wire and stumps of No Man's land. He carries a rifle and a grenade. Beneath is a stone pedestal with a plaque bearing a flag in­signia. It was dedicated in 1927 to honor the veterans of WWI.

Dedicated November 11, 1927 on the grounds of old Fostoria High School with the high school band providing music for the ceremony.  Mrs. W. S. Finkbein, state president of the Service Star Legion War Mothers, presented the memorial. Acceptance remarks were given by Fostoria Mayor L. W. Gibson and school board President Fred Freese and Bowling Green Mayor F. J. Reider. Mrs. E. H. Retan, a Gold Star Mother, was escorted to the base of the statue by the color guard of the Service Star Legion and was assisted in the unveiling by a Boy Scout as Taps was played.

In 1969, the Doughboy, including its pedestal, was moved by moving contractor Ludwig Berwick to Fountain Cemetery and placed inside a circular stone area containing flowers. Damages were repaired, the bayonet was replaced, and the Doughboy was rededicated May 30, 1969.

The Doughboy received reasonable maintenance at the cemetery, but the years of exposure to the elements took their toll and a major restoration fundraising campaign was undertaken in 1995 to obtain donations of citizens and of Veteran, Fraternal Civic and other organizations. The restoration was performed under the supervision of Tom Podner, McKay Lodge Fine Arts Conservation Laboratory, Oberlin, Ohio. 

Fostorian Frank Kirian provided expert advice during the restoration project. Frank and Royetta Kirian visited over 80 Doughboy sites through the years. They were physically looking for them before T. P. Wesley of Spencer, Indiana sent the 1991 letter to Home and Away magazine to solicit information about their locations. While they didn’t previously know Mr. Wesley and Mr. Wesley didn’t know them, when the Kirians learned of the letter, they took all the photos they had to Mr. Wesley in Spencer. Mr. Wesley told me (Earl Goldsmith) of them the first time we talked – and later told me of the Forstoria restoration mentioned above. They were undoubtedly his favorite Doughboy searchers. and have probably seen more standing Doughboys than anyone.

J.W. Kennedy sculpted this fountain of white Vermont marble, as a round basin on a square base. Arising from the basin is a shaft, atop which is a bronze eagle, whose wings are spread protectively around a globe. A long plaque on the sides of the shaft list the Kear­ney County residents who served in WWI.

This was initiated by the Ladies Auxiliary of the American Le­gion, and was the first monument in Nebraska which was erected after state law gave cities the right to tax its citizens to build monuments. Originally, there were ten bubbling cups in the fountain, one for each Kearney County resilient who died in WWI. They are now missing.

This WWI plaque is mounted on a mortared stone "boulder" on the grounds of the Somerset County Courthouse.  The bronze plaque contains the American Legion logo flanked by L-shaped garlands with flower corner blocks. 

The plaque reads, "To the citizens of Somerville in appreciation of their hospitality in 1917 to the Fourth New Jersey Infantry. We also speak for those who sleep in France."

It was presented by the Fourth Infantry Post of the American Legion on Decoration Day 1920. 

Photos courtesy of: 
"Boulder" - Bill Coughlin & Historical Marker Database
Plaque - RC & Historical Marker Database

On the side of a large granite boulder is a bronze relief plaque with a laurel branch and a scene of WWI soldiers marching in formation, each carrying a rifle over his right shoulder. A single figure leads them, and there are two flags in the background. It was sculpted by Theo A.K. Kitson for $400 and dedicated in 1920 in memory of the men of Francestown who served in WWI.

This is a life-size Italian marble WWI soldier wearing a thigh-length coat, helmet, and britches. He stands at parade rest holding the barrel of his rifle, whose butt is near his left foot. Beneath is a marble base which has a central pedestal flanked by wing-like pieces. It was dedicated on September 4,1929, as a tribute to the eight cit­izens of Frankfort who died in service in WWI.

Memorial arch honoring the veterans of Franklin County who served during the First World War.

The inscription on this memorial reads:

This Monument is dedicated to those who left their daily tasks among us to fight and die if needed be that freedom may live. Those who have made the supreme sacrifice in the World War

Lawrence J. Clark • Edward L. Grant • James R. Murray • Elijam M. Coldwell • Albert E.Johnson • Emilio P. Daddario • W. Franklin Lynch • Levi Peri • Jay Stone Davis • Alfred L. Mucciarone • Patrick Ristaino • Frank J. Smith