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Henry Wolanski

Former Site American Legion Post

 
 
Henry Wolanski Marker/Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Anton Schwarzmueller, April 7, 2019
1. Henry Wolanski Marker/Memorial
Inscription.
Former site
Henry Wolanski
American Legion Post No. 707
Killed in action at age 19
U.S. Army - World War I
Interred at
Oise-Aisne American
Cemetery and Memorial
France

 
Erected by American Legion, nephew Eugene R. Mruk.
 
Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: War, World I.
 
Location. 42° 53.093′ N, 78° 50.367′ W. Memorial is in Buffalo, New York, in Erie County. It is in Babcock. It is at the intersection of Fillmore Avenue and William Street on Fillmore Avenue. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 855 William Street, Buffalo NY 14206, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Upstate New York and specifically in Western New York. It is also in the American Northeast and in the Mid-Atlantic. Globally, it is in North America, on the Great Lakes, in the Western Hemisphere, in the Western World, and in the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Viceroyalty of New France, the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy, New Netherland, and one of the original Thirteen
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Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: St. Stanislaus Church (approx. 0.2 miles away); First Polish Colony (approx. 0.2 miles away); Corpus Christi Church Complex (approx. half a mile away); The Father Justin Rosary Hour (approx. half a mile away); Broadway Market (approx. 0.6 miles away); St. Ann's Church (approx. 0.6 miles away); The Buffalo Stockyards (approx. 0.6 miles away); Frank Lloyd Wright’s Larkin Administration Building (approx. 0.8 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Buffalo.
 
Henry Wolanski Marker/Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Anton Schwarzmueller, April 7, 2019
2. Henry Wolanski Marker/Memorial
View is southward on Fillmore Avenue. An American flag was flying on the pole behind the plaque.
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on February 16, 2023. It was originally submitted on April 7, 2019, by Anton Schwarzmueller of Wilson, New York. This page has been viewed 409 times since then and 24 times this year. Photos:   1, 2. submitted on April 7, 2019, by Anton Schwarzmueller of Wilson, New York.
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