100 Cities - 100 Memorials
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.
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- Memorial Hunters Club Submission: Robert Shay, PH3, USNR-R, 1964-70
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The inscriptions on this memorial read:
Erected to
those from Fayette County
who served their country
in the World War
Dedicated Nov. 11, 1927
1917 • Fayette’s Sons — They Gave Their All • 1918
George W. Allen • Ralph Barlett • Jennings Bland • Harry H. Brown • Wilmer H. Brown • John Burke • Owen Caplinger • Ralph Chilcote • Will Denney • Ray Archie Dixon • Clarence Downer • Addison Funk • Ray B. Hamm • Arley Griffith • Clarence Hard • Fred Backenstoe Hillery • Paul H. Hughey • Walter W. Huchison • Cash Knisley • Loren Koontz • Henry Larkin • Charles A. Lones
Carl Lloyd • Werter Mann • Clarence Maxwell • Donald Michael • Homer Perdue • Fred Sammons • Frank Skyles • Russell McKinley Smith • Howard A. Sommers • Howard Spence • Wesley Sword • Earl Thomas • Amos Thornton Jr. • Mallie Vance • Ray Vanniman • Fred C. Walls • Glenn Whaley • Buryl Williams • John Williams • Pearl Williamson • Herbert Wills • Lester Woodruff
Dedicated with ceremonies, May 27th 1919, to the brave boys of Fayette County who served in the World War
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- Memorial Hunters Club Submission: thewanderer
This plaque is mounted on the outside edge of the stone stairway to the historic Fayette County Courthouse in Lexington, Kentucky.
The plaque says "The men of Fayette County who gave their lives in service during the World War". Below that is a list of 52 names.
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- Memorial Hunters Club Submission: East Side Ohana, Hawai'i Loa Chapter, NSDAR Individual Members: Pat Mood, Robin Moorehouse, Amelia Myers, Mary Yoshida, Taylor Cockerham, Marilyn Haymore, Julie Ignacio, Richell Herman and Marcia Brinkley
Eleven bronze plaques, each with the name of a WWI service member who died during World War I, lie at the feet of palm trees that line two sides of the Hilo Federal Building.
The main part of the building was completed in 1917. From the little we have been able to learn about the memorial, AMVETS planted 17 trees on Veterans Day of 1922 in honor of those killed in action in WWI. Presumably, these men were born on Hawai'i County but little information is available. We do not know if there were more plaques originally.
The names of the individuals listed on the plaques are: James B. Todd, Joseph S. Botelho,George Washburn, Henry K. Umuiwe, Frank Aki, Charles Kailoa Levy Waikoikala,Frank C. Viera, Jr., James Nahale, Thomas Smith, T.P. Williams. Some plaques include the date and place of death, but others provide no information.
Several died at the front, one died at sea, others died in Hilo or on Oahu. The plaques are difficult to read and have not been tended well. Because the plaques and trees are not clustered together, it is difficult for passersby to notice them or to identify them as a memorial unless they stop and read the information carefully. There is a plaque set back from the street that honors a director of the National Park Service who did not apparently serve in WWI, which seems odd. One of our chapter members works in the building and noticed the plaques.
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- Dedication Date: 1924
- Single figure -- soldier
Fenton World War I Memorial
Long Description:
The park is a small park with a bench and a flag pole.
The plaque reads:
In memory of
Our Heros
in
The WOrld War
1914-1918
who fought for
Liberty and Humanity
dedicated by
Settlers and Michigan Pioneers
Fenton Michigan
1924"
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This red brick obelisk has a bronze-plated eagle on top. Plaques on the sides memorialize the dead from WWI, WWII, and the Korean and Vietnam Wars.
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- Single figure -- soldier
Ferndale WWI Memorial
Long Description:
The memorial is a plaque on a rock.
The plaque reads:
"April 6, 1917 HONOR ROLL Nov 11, 1918
A tribute to
Ferndales World War Veterans
who offered all to their country
That Liberty and Justice might not perish from this earth
These made the supreme sacrifice
Paul William Hornaday
Jack Yull
Andrew Robertson
Robert Darch
Fred Metcalf
Centograph with 62 other names
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Giuseppe Moretti sculpted this life-sized bronze fireman holding a small child in his left arm, partially shielding him with his coat. In his right hand, he holds a vine-twisted sword and World War I helmet. Beneath is a stone base decorated by a plaque showing fireman fighting a fire. The memorial is dedicated to the fireman who served and died in World War I.
A plaque on the monument reads:
Erected by the
Volunteer Fire Department
of the
City of Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
in honor of valiant services
rendered by its members during
The World War 1917 - 1919
Dedicated 1924
These gave their lives
Benjamin H. Boggs
Herbert D. Harry
Clarance L. Hinkle
Louis E. Houseal
John C. Peifer, Jr.
Charles W. Revie
Edward L. Selway
Frank E. Ziegler
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- Dedication Date: 1920
The stained glass nave windows of Montclair, NJ's First Congregational Church were created with the church's construction in 1920 as a memorial to the nine church members who died in World War I.
Photo courtesy of: First Congregational Church
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- Who does the Monument honor?: The First Infantry Division's 5516 dead in World War One.
- Materials (select all that apply): Metal (any)
- In original location
- Dedication Date: October 4, 1924
- First Division Memorial Association
- Private association
- $150,000
- DC000017
- A tall granite shaft with gilded bronze winged figure of Victory at the top. She holds a flag in her raised proper right hand and she extends her left hand in a blessing of the dead. At the base of the memorial are bronze plates inscribed with the names of 5,599 men of the First Division who were killed in World War I. The First Division's campaigns and battle honors are also carved on the column.
- John Polachek Bronze & Iron Company
- Additions for World War II and Vietnam
- Cass Gilbert, architect; Daniel Chester French, sculptor
- Single figure -- soldier
The First Division Monument sits on a plaza in President's Park, west of the White House and south of the Eisenhower Executive Office Building (EEOB) at the corner of 17th Street and State Place, NW. (The EEOB was originally known as the State, War, and Navy Building and then as the Old Executive Office Building.) The monument was conceived by the Society of the First Division, the veteran's organization of the U.S. Army's First Division, to honor the valiant efforts of the soldiers who fought in World War I. Later additions to the monument commemorate the lives of First Division soldiers who fought in subsequent wars. The World War II addition on the west side was dedicated in 1957, the Vietnam War addition on the east side in 1977, and the Desert Storm plaque in 1995. Cass Gilbert was the architect of the original memorial and Daniel Chester French was the sculptor of the Victory statue. Gilbert's son, Cass Gilbert Jr., designed the World War II addition. Both the Vietnam War addition and the Desert Storm plaque were designed by the Philadelphia firm of Harbeson, Hough, Livingston, and Larson. Congressional approval was obtained to erect the First Division Monument and its later additions on federal ground. The Society of the First Division (later called the Society of the First Infantry Division) raised all the funds for the original monument and its additions. No federal money was used. Today, the monument and grounds are maintained by the National Park Service. (Courtesy National Park Service)
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- Dedication Date: 11/11/1919
- First Presbyterian Church
- Church
- Church members who served in the war
- Tiffany Studios
- Plaque or tablet
Rectangular bronze memorial tablet that features in upper register an eagle with spread wings and talons grasping laurel leaves. Banners (inscribed) under eagle's wings with names and inscriptions below.
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- Plaque or tablet
This simple plaque honors all those from Pittsburgh who served in World War I, World War II and Korea. The bronze plaque with a colorful American flag sits on a brick wall called the First Ward Honor Roll. VFW Post 740
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In 1921, the Service Star Legion dedicated this sandstone sculpture, sitting on a granite base. It depicts a uniformed WWI soldier standing at attention in front of a tree stump. It honors the WWI veterans from Ravalli County.
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A bronze figure of a loosely-draped female figure holds a flag and extends her right hand, bestowing honor on those who died in WWI. The insignia of the U.S. is depicted on her breast plate, and her cloak is blown by the breeze to imply wings. Beneath is a tall square base of Stony Creek pink granite. It was sculpted by Hlerbert Adams and was dedicated on November 12, 1928, to honor the 63 citizens of Fitchburg who died in WWI.
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- Dedication Date: August 26, 1970
- Bench
Erected by American Legion Post 72.
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- Dedication Date: 1937
The Flanders Field American Cemetery and Memorial occupies a 6.2-acre site. Masses of graceful trees and shrubbery frame the burial area and screen it from passing traffic. At the ends of the paths leading to three of the corners of the cemetery are circular retreats, with benches and urns. At this peaceful site rest 368 of our military dead, most of whom gave their lives in liberating the soil of Belgium in World War I. Their headstones are aligned in four symmetrical areas around the white stone chapel that stands in the center of the cemetery.
The altar inside the chapel is made of black and white Grand Antique marble with draped flags on each side; above it is a crusader's sword outlined in gold. The chapel furniture is made of carved oak, stained black with white veining to harmonize with the altar; 43 names are inscribed on the Walls of the Missing.
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- Flagstaff and tablet on base
- Plaque or tablet
DEDICATED / TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE / WHO MADE THE / SUPREME SACRIFICE / IN THE WORLD WAR 1917-1918 / BY / FLANDERS FIELD POST NO. 150 / VETERANS OF FOREIGN WARS /
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A bronze doughboy stands with a rifle slung over his left shoulder, with a bent left arm. His left hand rests where the gun strap formerly was. In his right hand is a bunch of poppies, and the left hand is modeled so that it can hold real flowers. On the North Jay granite base is an excerpt from Flanders Fields, a poem written by John McCrae just before he was killed in action in WWI. Burt W. Johnson (1890-1927) sculpted this as a memorial to the youth of the neighborhood who died in WWI.

































