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Renfrew Manufacturing Company World War Honor Roll

 
 
Renfrew Manufacturing Company World War Honor Roll Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., June 2, 2018
1. Renfrew Manufacturing Company World War Honor Roll Marker
Inscription.
In a righteous cause they have won immortal glory
and have nobly served their nation in serving mankind

[Died in service]
William Douglas • Martin Lauer • Lambert Lenhardt

[Honor Roll of Veterans]
Joseph Abraham • Richard Adam • Clarke Andrews
Alfred Bailot • William S. Bauer • Henry Beaudin
A. Vane Beaudry • Harold Beebe • Arthur Best
Frank Blanchard • Joseph Bobin • Leo Boudreau
Harold Brousseau • Max Brumm • Leon Cadigon
Edward H. Caley • Roy F. Carpenter • William Casey
Ernest Catman • Wilfred Catman • James Cleminson
John Courtney • Nicholas Dalton • Emil Daunais
John Decker • Martin Degen • Walter Dydowicz
Henry Fern, Jr. • William Gannon • Oliver Gravel
Thomas Grieve • William Hanke • Theros Keriakakis
Gustave Langer • Felix Lemoine • Arthur Levigne
Henry Louison • James McClement • Thomas McGlynn
Harry W. Palmer • Antonio Perdik • Ernest Perrault
Oscar Pinsonnault • Adrian Poirot • Leo Roulier
Robert Rupprecht
Richard Schmerder • Alfred Schmidt • Roy L. Sidelinger
Joseph Skouron • Richard Sullivan • Vincent Thomas
Cornelius Van Steenberg • Mario Volpi • William White
Alphonse Winkowski • John N. Williams • Bebnarz Wojcieck
Joseph Wojcieck • Walter Wojcieck • Irving W. Young

[On base below Honor Roll, small marker reads]
In memory of
Francis U Stearns


 
Erected by Renfrew
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Manufacturing Company.
 
Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: Industry & CommerceWar, World I.
 
Location. 42° 37.937′ N, 73° 6.872′ W. Memorial is in Adams, Massachusetts, in Berkshire County. It is at the intersection of Columbia Street (Massachusetts Route 8) and Upton Street, on the right when traveling south on Columbia Street. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 108 Columbia Street, Adams MA 01220, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Massachusetts’ Berkshires. It is also in the American Northeast and in New England. 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 one of the original Thirteen Colonies.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Columbia World War I Memorial Park (approx. 0.3 miles away); War Memorial (approx. 0.4 miles away); The Railroad Solved A Problem / The Railroad Changed Everything
Renfrew Manufacturing Company World War Honor Roll image. Click for full size.
Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., June 2, 2018
2. Renfrew Manufacturing Company World War Honor Roll
(approx. half a mile away); Big Business of Cotton Cloth / Working in the Berkshires (approx. 0.6 miles away); Civil War Memorial (approx. 0.6 miles away); Maple Street Cemetery (approx. 0.6 miles away); William McKinley (approx. 0.6 miles away); Why McKinley? / A Library & Civil War Veterans (approx. 0.6 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Adams.
 
Also see . . .  Renfrew Manufacturing Co. Mill No. 2, 217 Columbia St, Adams, Berkshire County, MA. Library of Congress website entry:
From Notes on the page: "A devastating fire in 1984 destroyed most of the more than 25 late-nineteenth-and twentieth-century buildings in the complex. Today, only the main Mill No. 2 and several ancillary buildings remain." (Submitted on June 11, 2018, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio.) 
 
Renfrew Manufacturing Company World War Honor Roll Memorial Marker image. Click for full size.
Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., June 2, 2018
3. Renfrew Manufacturing Company World War Honor Roll Memorial Marker
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on July 1, 2021. It was originally submitted on June 11, 2018, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio. This page has been viewed 709 times since then and 16 times this year. Photos:   1, 2, 3. submitted on June 11, 2018, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio.
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