to the memory of
F. M. DOUGLASS
WILLIAM C. HOOK
RICHARD M. LAVIGNE
EDWIN O. PUTNAM
GEORGE A. SMITH
who made the Supreme Sacrifice
and to
James E. Allen George A. Anderson Edmond Blair John W. DeCook Frederick Dubiel Harry E. Frye Herbert B. Gallop, Jr. Eugene W. Gunseth Warren T. Heiser William W. Heiser Edward Howard Rodney C. Jones Quentin E. Martin Raymond E. Martin Bruce S. Nichols Earl D. Nichols Lucius H. Nichols, Jr. | Malcolm M. Olds Robert E. Olds Joseph Perry Eugene Pike Lloyd W. Quimby Clarence F. Roberts Aaro Santti John R. Sarsfield Millicent S. Sells Ladora M. Smith George H. Thurber Bernard C. Whiting Harold R. Whiting Clarence E. Willett Harold D. Willett Mike Wirkkala |
World War II
this tablet is dedicated
by the
town of Lempster
A.D. 1947
Rededicated in 2018
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1. Francis Malcolm Douglass served in the US Navy. He was taken prisoner at Corregidor on 6 May 1942, and died on a Japanese prison ship 18 Jan. 1945. He was buried at sea.
2. William Charles Hook was a seaman, 1st Class, in the US Naval Reserve. He died 8 July 1944, and is buried in Newport, NH.
3. Sgt. Richard Moses Lavigne was in the 262nd Infantry Regiment, 66th Inf Division. He was declared missing on 25 Dec. 1944, when the S.S. Léopoldville, on which he was a passenger, was torpedoed and sunk.
4. Edwin Oliver Putnam served as a Technician Fourth Grade, with the 24th Armed Engineer Battalion, 4th Armored Division, US Army. He was killed in action during the Battle of the Bulge, in Belgium.
5. George A. Smith - sadly, I haven't found anything yet on George.