Memorial Inventory Project: There is one other existing partial database to consult - The WWI Memorial Inventory Project [CLICK HERE]. It contains some memorials our map doesn't. The listings on this database are fair game for the Memorial Hunters Club. So if you want to search for treasure from your desk - find missing listings here and submit them. Remember though, you will need to come up with pictures and the history of the memorial. You might be able to hunt that down through www.Proquest.com and Google.
The text on this monument reads:
In honor of those who made the supreme sacrifice in World War 1914-1918
Ballinger, Roy C.
Bower, Ollie G.
Clapper, Earl F.
Collier, Robert E.
Drain, Benjamin S.
Farr, George E.
Finney, Emmert O.
Fitzpatrick, John U.
Gaines, Fletcher W.
Mastings, Owen
Howard, Jerry
Hughes, George
Meyer, Dennis C.
Moss, Leland S.
Oak, Elmer
Schofield, F. Lee
Wilson, Robert K.
The inscription on this memorial plaque reads:
In memory of
Henry Luckett Clapham • Ira Moser Derr • Thomas Franklin Ewers • John Chrisman Goghenour • Washington Berry Grove • Marshall Earle Martin • Wilmer Birdie Miller • Garnett Otis Nelson • Hubert Monroe Phares • Joseph Rodney Power • Thomas Christian Reinhart • William Bryan Swisher • Kenna McCarta Weber
who gave their lives for their country
★★★★★★
and in honor of
one hundred ninety seven others
of this college who rendered
service in the World War
1917 - 1919
Erected by the Senior Class of 1918, presented to Shepherd College.
Attached to a granite millstone is a bronze inscription plaque honoring the Shutesbury men who served in WWI, dedicated in May of 1937. There is also a while framed honor roll of those who died in WWII.
Location: New York City’s Central Park
At the Base of a tree on the North End Of the Mall
Description: Consists of a Bronze Tablet on a cast stone base
Plaque Dedicated: 1928
Tree Planted: May 19, 1920
Inscription:
IN MEMORY OF
S. RANKIN DREW
KILLED IN ACTION MAY-19-1918
THIS TREE WAS PLANTED
MAY-19-1920
BY S. RANKIN DREW POST
AMERICAN LEGION
Corporal Drew, an American fighter pilot in the French Air Force is buried at the
American Battlefield Monument Commission’s
Lafayette Escadrille Memorial Cemetery, Suresnes, France
This Cemetery Dedicated in 1928 was acquired by the ABMC in January, 2017 from the French
Government after a long overdue joint restoration project.
Website: https://abmc.gov/cemeteries-memorials/europe/lafayette-escadrille-memorial-cemetery#.WvtlDsgh27w
These memorial walls honor the fallen from all wars beginning with WW1. They encircle three flags: the Arkansas state flag, the POW/MIA flag, and the flag of the United States. In front of the memorial walls stands a statue of a servicemember's helmet, rifle, and boots. The statue's plaque reads: To The World They Were Soldiers / To Their Family They Were The World. The memorial wall reads: This Memorial Is Dedicated To The Courage And Sacrifice Of Those Who Served Their Country In Long Forgotten And Faraway Places. The Memory Of Their Deeds Will Be Enduring And Imperishable To The Rigors Of Time.
A bronze plaque on this stone obelisk reads: "A Memorial Erected in Memory of All War Veterans of Silver Bow County." Visible on the memorial is an empty space for a similar plaque; replacement and restoration efforts are underway, but first historical research must be done to determine what was written on the plaque.
The following is an account of the signing of the US WWI Peace Treaty published in the New York Times issue of May 27, 1984:
"Although the other Allies accepted the Treaty of Versailles, a vicious, partisan battle over its adoption erupted in the United States. ... Formal peace did not come for another two years: July 2, 1921. The place the war ended was in rural Somerset County.
The US resolution contained some of the provisions of the Treaty of Versailles, but not membership in the League of Nations.
As the debate in Congress was ending, President Warren Harding left to spend a relaxing Fourth of July weekend at the picturesque country home of Senator Joseph S. Frelinghuysen in Somerville, NJ.
The President was accompanied by his wife and a group of cronies from the Senate and the House. The Presidential party arrived on Friday evening, July 1, after taking the Baltimore & Ohio Railroad from Washington to Bound Brook.
The following day, a White House courier arrived with the resolution that had just been adopted by Congress, and reporters described the ensuing events with the sort of colorful journalistic detail that characterized newspaper reporting in those days.
President Harding, who had been playing golf at the Somerset Hills Country Club, returned to the Frelinghuysen home in an automobile. He was wearing ''a Palm Beach suit, white shoes, white socks with black clocks, a white shirt buttoned by removable gold studs and a green and red bow tie.''
He met the White House courier on the front porch, where he read through the documents. The President then entered through the front door and sat at a table.
About 30 people crowded into the room, including reporters, photographers, Secret Service agents, Washington dignitaries, the Frelinghuysen children, the acting Governor of New Jersey, butlers, maids, chauffeurs and gardeners.
A reporter asked Senator Frelinghuysen what he called the room.
''Oh, I don't know,'' he said, ''library, living room, parlor - anything you please.''
A group of Somerset County officials, including Sherrif Bogart Conkling, had brought along a feathery quill pen for the President to use, but he instead took a ''new steel pen in an ordinary wooden holder'' from Senator Frelinghuysen.
In silence, except for the clicking of cameras, the President signed the resolution.
''That's all,'' he said, in what must be one of the most unmemorable lines ever uttered in a historic moment.
At that point, a large drop of ink fell from the pen to the page, obscuring part of Mr. Harding's signature. An aide applied a blotter, and the document was placed in a leather pouch to be returned to Washington.
After a few moments of conversation, the President and his party departed for some more golf, this time at the Raritan Valley Country Club.
Nobody is quite sure how it got there, but the desk on which President Harding signed the resolution is tucked away in a small room in the concrete and glass library on the Rutgers-Newark campus. There is no plaque or marker on it, and it is used principally as a conference table for librarians."
Today, a small plaque commemorates the location of the former Senator Joseph S. Frelinghuysen home in Somerville, NJ. It is located at the entrance to the Somerville Circle Shopping Center.
Photo courtesy of: Somerset County Historical Society; original credit: Unionist-Gazette newspaper, 1921
This monument commemorates the 47 men of Draft Board District 61 who lost their lives in World War I. Dedicated on Armistice Day (now Veterans Day), November 11, 1922, the monument consists of a polished Stoney Creek granite stele bearing a classical bronze relief by Charles Keck (1875–1951).
In 1931 the new state highway from Mt. Vernon to Anacortes, Washington, now SR 536, was named “The Memorial Highway” in honor of the 50 Skagit County soldiers that died in The World War. 50 Elm trees were planted along the highway at that time. Sometime in the 1950’s, the road was widened and the trees removed. On March 24th, 2015, a project to restore the elm trees was started with the planting of the first five new trees at this location.
The Slope County Veterans Memorial was one of the last ones dedicated specifically to veterans of WWI in North Dakota. Since it was dedicated in June of 1940, when a major war was being fought in Europe, the designers left room on the other side to add another memorial should the United States enter what would be become WWII. This memorial is built from petrified wood supporting a granite tablet.
"Solano County's Tribute to Its Fallen Heroes, 1917 - 1919"
50 names are listed on the rear panel of the memorial's pedestal. Memorial is in front of the old Solano County Courthouse. The memorial is flanked on either side by unique 47mm Rotating 5 barrel cannons that were made in 1883/84.
This is a chain saw-carved piece of wood, probably elm, depicting a standing WWI soldier. He wears an open-necked shirt and pants tucked into his boots, holds his rifle's barrel, and carries a helmet. It was carved in 1990 by Dennis Roghair to honor WWI veterans. Nearby is another Roghair carving, "Eagle," which may also be in honor of veterans.
Opened in 1924 as the Grant Park Municipal Stadium, in 1925 the stadium was renamed Soldier Field to honor the men and women who lost their lives during World War I. The ceremony to mark the name change was held on Armistice Day and began with a firing of guns at sunrise, a 21-gun salute at 11:00 am, and included parades and ceremonial flag raisings. Its formal dedication as Soldier Field was on Saturday, November 27, 1926, during the 29th annual playing of the Army–Navy Game. Its design is in the Neoclassical style, with Doric columns rising above the East and West entrances. The stadium cost $13 million to construct ($182 million in 2015 dollars), a very large sum for a sporting venue at that time. (Although it opened in 1924, construction wasn’t completed until 1939). A Spirit of the American Doughboy Memorial, created by American sculptor Ernest Moore Viquesney (1876-1946) in 1926, originally placed in Chicago’s Garfield Park and dedicated to the service men and women who gave their lives during World War I, was re-located in 2003 near Gate O of Soldier Field. It stands raised on a marble slab inside a protective glass circle with an etched inscription.
The monument in Leeds was designed by George Glynquist, who served as an army engineer in the war. It was erected by the War Mothers of Leeds and dedicated on August 7, 1921. The bronze plaque lists the names of all who served in WWI from Leeds, including Red Cross nurses. The monument was originally in a park near the railroad but is now in Fireman's Park along with a monument for pioneers.
This is a 45-foot white concrete tower with windows and bas-reliefs depicting World War I soldiers. Three are white, one is black, and all are painted with a brown gun and boots, green uniform, and beige background. A circular staircase inside leads to an observation platform. This monument was erected as a tribute to the 6,341 people from Contra Costa County who served in WWI and the 77 who died. A plaque was added in 1954 to honor those who died in WWII and the Korean War
Manufactured of granite and bronze, this monument is composed of five sections which fit together, the nine fool tall center section being the tallest. On the ends are sculpted helmets, canteens, a gas mask, ammunition belts, a saddlebag and a bayonet. It also had medallions of the U.S., the Spanish-American War Veterans, and the Grand Army of the Republic. Atop the center section was a sculpted element, but it was stolen during the 1960s. The monument was dedicated on May 30, 1923, as a tribute to the Minnesota veterans of the Civil War, the Spanish-American War, and WWI.
