World War 1 Memorial
Intersection of Main Street (Route 27) and Woodbury Lane, next to the Acton Town Hall
The plaque reads:
ACTON REMEMBERS
1914 WORLD WAR I 1918
For more information, see:
"Lest We Forget," The Acton Citizen, Nov.11, 1994 (Acton Memorial Library's Historical Information Acton scrapbook, v.9, item 1104)
Roll of Honor published in the Concord Enterprise April 23, 1919, page 5. While not finished, it listed the location &/or service details of veterans on this list and other names that were not included on the final war memorial listing.
See also the sign dedicating the land at the intersection of Central Street, Massachusetts Avenue, and Arlington Street to Sidney J. Edwards, a World War I fatality not listed on this stone.
Names on World War 1 Memorial:
Allsopp, Ernest E Bayeur, Henry A Benere, Donatus W Berry, Ernest Billings, Howard I Blanchard, Webster S Bresth, Alexander Bresth, Harold S Briggs, George H Briggs, Jesse A Burke, Edward L Burke, Henry B Campbell, D Norman Cheney, Robert B Christiansen, Arthur M Christie, Robert E Clark, Harry J Clark, Orma Lawrence Clayton, John Coolidge, Harold B Coughlin, John Coughlin, Mary E Couglin, William C Jr. Cram, Lowell Currier, Donald H Currier, Louis W Currier, W Bryant Jr Dane, Stephen H Daniels, Howard B Davis, John Durkee, Raymond F Emerson, Leon W Evans, Albert W Fairbanks, J Madison Farrar, Raymond F Flagg, Carrol H Flagg, Harland W | Foley, David J Foley, Michael Foley, Thomas Forbes, Crandall W Freeman, Richard D Frost, Allan B Frost, Lillian E Gallagher, Thomas C Gallant, Joseph Gallant, Raymond A Gates, Ralph E Giannone, Frank R Gilmore, Walter F Goding, Arthur T Gould, Glenn C Greenough, Frank E Hall, H Wesley Harris, Alfred B Hayes, Raymond E Hayes, William T Hayward, George K Heath, Charles Harry Hettinger, Harry Hoar, Burton H Hoar, Carl S Hodgen, Hugh Huntoon, William H Hurley, James J Kenney, John Klein, Philip E Lawrence, Harland B C Leveroni, Louis F Lowden, Theron A McAllaster, Frederic T McAllaster, Norman F McCarthy, Frank A McClenathan, Walter H McWayne, John | Mekkelsen, Soren M Merriam, Herbert W Millan, John A Nagle, Frederick W Newsham, Thomas Newsham, William Nichols, Orla E Nims, Buchanan Nims, Pliny F Olsen, Oscar O'Connor, William Prendergast, Edward L Quimby, Howard L Quinlan, James Quinlan, Robert Randell, R Earle Reed, Everett W Reed, G Howard Richardson, Charles E S Richardson, Harold M Roche, Leo B Sawyer, Benjamin H Sawyer, Philip D Shaw, Frederick K Sisson, John P Smiley, Charles D Smiley, William E Sylvester, Charles G Tuttle, Howard K Wetherbee, Lyman M West, Charles S Whitcomb, Ernest L White, Richard P Willis, Nelson B Womboldt, Hugh E Woodard, Frank H Wright, Raymond E |