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Water Mill Rolls of Honor

 
 
Water Mill Rolls of Honor Marker - Left Tablet image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Andrew Ruppenstein, November 26, 2017
1. Water Mill Rolls of Honor Marker - Left Tablet
Inscription.
[Left Tablet:]
Revolutionary War
Joseph Burnett · John Conklin · Henry Halsey · Jesse Halsey ·★ Shadrack Hildreth · Henry Ludlam · Jeremiah Ludlam · Matthew H. Sayre · Thomas Stephens

Civil War
Robert F. Benedict ·★ James R. Foster · Denis Haley · Charles A. Halsey ·★ Silas E. Halsey · Isaac N. Hildreth · Oscar A. Hildreth · Jeremiah Payne · Benjamin Rogers · Frederick H. Rose · ★ Matthew H. Sayre · Henry Squires · Timothy W. Warren · George A. Week

World War I
Benjamin F. Barnes · Frank L. Benedict · Alan R. Bishop · Edward C. Bridgman · Leland J. Burnett · Howard P. Corwith · Frances L. Durk · William H. Field · William S. Foster · Richard V. Goodman · Walenty A. Gorski · Mortimer Hayes · Harold Hildreth · George Hiscock · A. Arlton Jennings · C.C. Jolliffe ·★ Raymond Joly · Frank H. Josι, Jr. · John J. Kelly · Charles Kraszewski · Albert B. McConnell · Charles Melewski · Konstanty Napiorski · Joseph Olson · John Riley · Halsey Rogers · Emile L. Schmidt · Lorin F. Shipper · Robert J. Stewart · David M. Unger · Donald C. Walton · James L. White · Joseph White · Stanley Zaluski

World War II Special Services
  Merchant Marine

Frank Andrews · Raymond Halsey · J. Ennis McQuail · Roger White · William Zelichowski
 American Field Service
T. Burt McGuire · Benjamin Nicoll
  Cadet Nurse
Constance Zaluski

The grinding stones upon which these tablets are placed were used in the old water mill erected in 1643 by Edward Howell to serve the Southampton Colony. These grinding stones were cut out of the rock found here on Long Island.


[Middle Tablet:]
Korean War
Raymond S. Andrews · Lawrence H. Strickland

Vietnam War
Frederick P. Avens · Arthur Berkoski · Peter Berkoski · Frederick L. Bertrand · Leo J. Borkoski · Stanley R. Borkoski · ** James S. Burnett, Jr. · Charles F. Corwith, Jr. · Raymond W. Enstine, Jr. · Leonard M. Foster · Lee E. Halsey · Jan Harboy, Jr. · Edward Leigh Jones · Jeffrey Floyd Jones · Van Livingston · Thomas C. Maran · John McGann · James Rogers · Mark Edward Strickland · John J. Vinski · James W. White · Chet Yastrzemski

** Killed in Action

[Right Tablet:]
World War II
John W. Andrews · George C. Appell · Joseph Arnister · Louis Babinski · Stanley A. Babula ·★ Joseph Baclawski · Lawrence Balserus · Robert Balserus · Stanley Balserus · James P. Barker · Sisco E. Barnard · Alex Borkoski · Richard Benedict · Leon Benzel · William Benzel · Edward C. Bridgman, Jr. · Harold F. Bruns · Arthur H. Burnett, Jr. · William T. Collins, Jr. · Arthur E. Corwith · Charles F. Corwith · Edward F. Corwith · Eric P. Corwith · John Darby, III · Clarence Deim · Chester Dombroski · Henry J. Dombroski · Lewis A. Dombroski · Sophie Dombroski · Theodore Dombroski · Frances L. Durk, Jr. · Lester O. Edwards · J. William Elton · Raymond Enstine · Joseph F. Fiigon, III · Eugene Foster · Gilbert S. Foster · Lawrence J. Foster · Joseph Franski · Fred M. Grimshaw · Alex Grzybowski · Jan J. Harboy · R. Edmund Hildreth · Stephen T. Horbowy · William J. Hubert · Quitman C. Hurdle · John Jaildagian · Charles E. Jones · H. Floyd Jones · Louis J. Jones · Frank J. Josι, III · Mary M. Josι · Anthony S. Kacinski · Anthony Koechel · Paul Koechel · Chester J. Konopka · Theodore Lachick ·★ John J. Landsberg · Albert LeCann · Raymond Lingwood · James McGee, Jr. · Lawrence T. McGee · A. Bradford McGuire · Robert McGuire · Alice K. Malone · Mary M. Malone · Nathaniel R. Malone · Ernest F. Marshall · George W. Martin, Jr. · Stanley W. Michna · Albert D. Miller · Donald H. Miller · Henry G. Miller · Vincent Mistkowski · Charles Mosley, Jr. · James Mosley · Robert Muir · Arthur S. Muller, Jr. · Fred Newell · Oscar Nothnagle · Joseph A. Olson · Eric R. Osborne · Patsy J. Rana · Kenneth L. Renkins · Adolphus E. Sadler, Jr. ·★ Norman Sanford · Amos B. Sharretts · Edward P. Sharretts, Jr. · Thomas B. Sharretts · John H. Singleton · Frank Smolenski · Arnold J. Stevens · Robert J. Stewart, Jr. · William A. Stewart · George A. Strong · Joseph S. Swerdzenski · William Swerdzenski · Fred Swett · Joseph A. Tyborowski · Emanuel P. Ward, Jr. · Janis L. Warner · Robert C. White · George W. Whiteside, Jr. · George Whitman · Walter E. Wienclawski ·★ John Wojewoda · Walter Wojewoda · Chester A. Yastrzemski, Jr. · Zigmond Zebrowski · Charles L. Carlen
 
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This memorial is listed in these topic lists: War, KoreanWar, US CivilWar, US RevolutionaryWar, VietnamWar, World IWar, World II. A significant day of the year for for this entry is May 31.
 
Location. 40° 54.602′ N, 72° 21.191′ W. Memorial is in Water Mill, New York, in Suffolk County. It is on Montauk Highway east of Old Mill Road, on the right when traveling east. Touch for map. Memorial is in this post office area: Water Mill NY 11976, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in the New York City Metropolitan Area and on Long Island. It is also in the American Northeast, in the Mid-Atlantic, and on the Eastern Seaboard. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once New Netherland and also one of the original Thirteen Colonies.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 3 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: The James Corwith Grist Mill (within shouting distance of this marker); First Watermill (approx. 0.2
Water Mill Rolls of Honor Marker - Middle Tablet image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Andrew Ruppenstein, November 26, 2017
2. Water Mill Rolls of Honor Marker - Middle Tablet
miles away); Lt. Colonel Lawrence R. Boyll, Sr. (approx. 2½ miles away); General William Erskine Headquarters (approx. 2½ miles away); North End Graveyard (approx. 2½ miles away); The Old Fort (approx. 2.6 miles away); 1707 Meeting House (approx. 2.6 miles away); Ye Towne Street (approx. 2.6 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Water Mill.
 
Water Mill Rolls of Honor Marker - Right Tablet image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Andrew Ruppenstein, November 26, 2017
3. Water Mill Rolls of Honor Marker - Right Tablet
Water Mill Rolls of Honor - Wide View image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Andrew Ruppenstein, November 26, 2017
4. Water Mill Rolls of Honor - Wide View
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on December 7, 2017. It was originally submitted on December 7, 2017, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California. This page has been viewed 1,724 times since then and 54 times this year. Photos:   1, 2, 3, 4. submitted on December 7, 2017, by Andrew Ruppenstein of Lamorinda, California.
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