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Lempster NH's World War II Memorial

8/8/2020

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HONOR ROLL
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
Who served in the 
World War II
this tablet is dedicated
by the 
town of Lempster
A.D. 1947
Rededicated in 2018
Located on the town common in Lempster, New Hampshire, on Lempster Road (ie Second New Hampshire Turnpike).
GPS: 43.238541, -72.210215
Notes:
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.



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