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 Delanco WWI monument is one of several placed in a park on the east side of Burlington Avenue. It consists of a bronze plaque mounted to the front of a granite slab.
The top of the plaque features an arched lintel ornamented with a eagle perched on a shield which surmounts a partially unfurled scroll reading, “Honor Roll.” The bottom of the plaque contains a quotation from Abraham Lincoln’s Cooper Union address.
Photos courtesy of: NJ State Historic Preservation Office
The Dunellen Honor Roll consists of an upright, horizontal, quarry-faced granite slab with a large, inset rectangular bronze plaque framed in rope molding affixed to the front. The memorial is dedicated to Dunellen residents who served in World War I. Their names are listed alphabetically in five columns.
The memorial was dedicated in front of 2,000 people, following a parade to the site. It was unveiled by two Dunellen boy scouts. A roll call of the Honor Roll's names was read.
This memorial is located among several monuments facing N. Washington Avenue which commemorate Dunellen’s residents’ participation in 20th century conflicts.
Photo courtesy of: NJ State Historic Preservation Office
Vintage postcard courtesy of: Rutgers University Libraries, Special Collections and University Archives
A bronze plaque with an eagle crowning its rectangular frame is affixed to a glacial boulder. The plaque itself lists all those from Glen Rock who served in World War I. It was dedicated before a large crowd in 1921.
The "Rock" from which Glen Rock gets its name was left approx. 15,000 years ago by the Wisconsin Glacier. The granite boulder weighs about 590 tons.
Photos courtesy of: Glen Rock Historical & Preservation Society
This monument consists of a bronze bas-relief plaque mounted on a granite stele. At the top of the large plaque is a trio of figures. A full-length figure of Liberty, wearing a gown with her arms outspread, holding a garland of laurel in each hand. On her right is a WWI soldier standing in front of a cannon & holding a rifle. On his right is a tank. On Liberty's left is a WWI sailor holding a pair of binoculars.
The monument was dedicated on September 1, 1919 at its former location at Lincoln School, to all Lyndhurst residents who served in WWI.
Narrative adapted from Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS) inventory #NJ000498.
Photos courtesy of: NJ State Historic Preservation Office
An impressive World War I Honor Roll consisting of 23 brass plaques is installed in the Morristown/Morris Township Library along the west wing balcony railing. Designed by noted Philadelphia iron artist, Samuel Yellin, known as the “Tiffany of metalwork,” it was originally installed in the Library’s 1917 building in 1926. When the library expanded in 1930, the railing was moved to the current “new” Reference Room.
The memorial consists of 25 brass panels placed side-by-side including a dedicatory proclamation, and the names of Morristown residents who served in the war.
(Yellin was responsible for much of the structural ironwork in the original Library building, and also designed an iron fire screen for the 1930 addition.)
Narrative adapted from the Samuel Yellin Collection of the University of Pennsylvania Architectural Archives.
Photos courtesy of: NJ State Historic Preservation Office
The Oaklyn WWI Honor Roll monument is an upright granite block with quarry-faced edges with a bronze plaque on the front. The plaque lists the names of borough residents who served in the war.
The monument is located at the municipal building.
Photos courtesy of: NJ State Historic Preservation Office
This World War I Honor Roll memorial consists of an irregularly shaped boulder with the bronze honor roll plaque mounted to its sloping front face. The plaque has a molded frame with a US seal centered at the top. It reads, "Dedicated to the men of Wenonah who answered their country's call in the World Wa4r, 1917-1918."
One soldier was killed in the war - Alfred J. Holeton. His name appears first, followed by an alphabetical listing of those from Wenonah who served.
Photos courtesy of: NJ State Historic Preservation Office
This monument consists of a vertical quarry-faced granite slab with rounded upper corners, resting on a granite base.
A bronze plaque is recessed into the front of the stone, containing an honor roll of Wood Ridge residents who served in WWI.
Photos courtesy of: NJ State Historic Preservation Office
This monument consists of a square stone pier constructed of coursed quarry-faced stones. It is capped by a stone slap with a flagpole rising from the center. A rectangular bronze plaque is attached to the left side of the pier.
It is dedicated to the area's citizens who served in WWI, including a nurse, Grace Blackwell.
Narrative adapted from "A History of Hamilton Township, NJ," 1998 & Historical Marker Database.
Photos courtesy of: Deb Hartshorn & Historical Marker Database
There are 101 names on the plaque. Stars place by two names indicate that these two individuals, Frank Dickham and John Von Handorf, died during the conflict.
This memorial is one of three in Orange, NJ.
This sculpture consists of an 8' tall bronze of a WWI soldier, dressed in uniform with an ammunition belt is fastened around his waist. A coat is draped over his left arm; his right hand holds a rifle at parade rest.
The figure stands on a granite base, the front face of which has a bas-relief carving of the prow of a wooden boat. On the back face of the base is an "In Memoriam" plaque listing 91 names.
At the time of its dedication in 1930, the memorial's location was called, Lackawanna Plaza. The name has since been changed to, Tony Galento Plaza.
Narrative adapted from Smithsonian Institution Research Information System (SIRIS) inventory #NJ 000538.
Photo credit: NJ State Historic Preservation Office
At this one quiet spot, you have a living connection with the battle of Verdun, the conquest of Palestine, the greatest military victory in Italian history, and the charge up San Juan Hill. So after a paragraph on the park and its birds, this review will focus on telling you where this spot is, why military leaders from around the world came to it, and who they all were.
The Roll of Honor is on an irregular polygon: bronze panels six columns wide alternate with narrower ones that are three columns wide. Most columns bear about 60 names of Louisianans who died in the war (see Corner of Memorial photo). The vast majority were Army personnel, although the last Army plaque lists 40 Marines and 108 Sailors who were killed (see USMC and Navy Plaque photo). Some Army casualties may have been aviators, but there was no Air Force then, and nothing indicates that someone was an aviator rather than an artilleryman or infantryman.
World War I was the largest war in human history, up until then. So New Orleans wanted a memorial to the Louisianans who’d lost their lives in the Great War, within a ring of live oak trees, which can live for over a thousand years.
The first tree was planted by General “Blackjack” Pershing, the American commander-in-chief during WWI, who officially broke ground for the memorial in 1920.
At Audubon Park, the same year that Pershing planted one live oak, a second one was planted by the French General de Division Robert Nivelle. Nivelle, an artillery officer, took over command of Verdun halfway through that year-long battle, and promised the French troops “they (the Germans) shall not pass”.
In 1921, two more generals planted live oaks at Audubon Park: Ferdinand Foch and Armando Diaz.
Foch was Marshal of France and the supreme commander of the Allies in 1918 (basically, the Eisenhower of the first war). Foch was the foremost military strategist in the French Army. Armando Diaz was the Italian general who defeated the Austro-Hungarians, precipitating the collapse of the Hapsburg Empire, and thereby the collapse of Germany. In 1935, Japanese military representatives planted one last tree. The records all say that they were “Gen. Takashita and Lt General Niomiya” . This information is subject to verification.
In honor of the sons of melrose high school who made the supreme sacrifice and in recognition of those who served in the world war
Presented by the class of 1923
This boulder presented by class of 1925
The memorial is 10 feet high, beehive-shaped, and constructed of river rocks embedded in a concrete foundation. A bronze plaque measuring 4'2" x 7' is located on the south side of the monument. The Memorial Tablet represents the period at the Fitzsimons Army Hospital immediately following the First World War. This hospital (named after Lt. William T. Fitzsimons, the first officer of the U.S. Army's medical department to be killed in the war) was created during the war, and the medical department dedicated the memorial to fellow members of the department who lost their lives. The plaque reads:
1917 1918
In Memory
of the
Officers Nurses
and Enlisted Men
of the
Medical Department
United States Army
Who Lost Their Lives
During the
World War
This Tablet is Erected
by their Coworkers of
the Medical Department
WWI Memorial dedicated to the Members of the 89th Division Society of Pueblo.
The memorial is capped with the symbol of the 89th Division.
Our city, the largest in Idaho, did NOT have a WWI Memorial...so my chapter decided to give the city one! Dedicated and presented to the City of Boise at the 11th hour, of the 11th day, of the 11th month, 100 years exactly after the Armistice ceased hostilities, I am proud to say our city finally has its own WWI Memorial, now and forever. The chapter raised funds from a number of sources, including a Special Projects Grant from the National Society, Daughters of the American Revolution, and we designed, commissioned, and undertook getting all of the necessary permissions to make it happen. All told, it took about 18 months to complete the project. It is a thing to behold!
This monument consists of a quarry-faced granite slab with a bronze plaque, with a shallow-gabled top, placed at the center of its front face. The plaque contains an honor roll of Audubon's residents who served in WWI.
The monument is situated in a small park with monuments to other 20th-century wars arranged in an arc.
Photo courtesy of: NJ State Historic Preservation Office
This monument consists of a stone Doric column topped by a plinth & stone ball. The column rises from the third stage of a rusticated stone base that decreases in size from bottom to top. Attached to the front of the base is a rectangular bronze plaque commemorating the service of area residents who served in WWI.
Photo courtesy of : New Jersey Historic Preservation Office
The Bound Brook monument consists of a projecting bronze plaque mounted to the surface of an irregular glacial boulder. Erected by an American Legion Post, the simple plaque is ornamented with three relief crosses, two garlands, a torch, & the seal of the American Legion.
Photo credit: Bill Coughlin & Historical Marker Database
