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Washington Heights-Inwood War Memorial

 
 
Washington Heights-Inwood War Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Larry Gertner, May 28, 2019
1. Washington Heights-Inwood War Memorial
There are about 350 names on 20 plaques.
Inscription.
Erected by the people of Washington Heights and Inwood in commemoration of the men who gave their lives in the World War

Albert Abbuhel • Arthur Alexander • William Annis • Felix Apple • David Arnheim • Harry J. Assip • Howard H. Aulick • Lester L. Babcock • Cyrus Back • Hiram Back • Arthur J. Baia • Jack Bamforth • John R. Barrett • William H. Barry • William S. Beekman • George H. Beffrey • Ernest M. Behrens • Edward J. Bell

Abraham B. Berhkall • Charles R. Blake • Frank D. Blakely • William Blessing • Herbert C. Bond • Irwin L. Bond • Edward J. Borstleman • William A. Brady • Samuel Breck • Joseph J. Brennan • Felix H. Briley • Emmanuel Brode • William J. Bryan • Harry Bumfeld • Henry E. Burgess • Alfred Buxbaum • Clifford H. Cadwell • Lawrence Cahill

Dennis J. Callahan • Thomas J. Callahan • Owen W. Carrell • Patrick Caulfield • Robert D. Clements • Jacob Cohen • Raphael Cohen • Howard I. Collar • Edward J. Condon • John J. Connelly • Arnold Conway • James Cunnano • Bertram L. Cunningham • Isaac F. Dannenberg • Harvey G. Danner • John V. Daniels, Jr. • Victor Daniels • David Demby

Frederick Dempsey • Anthony A. De Vreis • Frank W. Dooley • Joseph J. Donnellon • William E. Donnelly
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• John M. Donohue • Jeremiah A. Dunn • John P. Dunne • Christ Eiers • Charles J. Emerson • William Epstein • Paul Euell, Jr. • Frank B. Eull • Michael Faenrich • Harry A. Fallon • Thomas Farrell • William D. Fawsett • Thomas E. Feeney

Charles McD. Fickeisen • Cornelius Finnegan • Bernard J. Finnerty • William J. Flanigan • James Fogarty • Victor C. Franke • John P. Freeman • Abraham Freidman • Harry C. Frey • Robert Friedman • James s. Galbraith • Joseph L. Gallipsean • HArold H. Gaskell • John W. Gavigan • Michael Gavin • William H. Geary, Jr. • Harry P. Geoghegan • Alfred T. Germond

Harry H. Giblein • Raymond E. Gill • Edward B. Gitchell • Frederick C. Goerz • Charles I. Goetz • George G. Goldman • Paul D. Gordon • Herbert Gould • Cornelius Grauer • Archibald Gray • Benjamin F. Green • Galvin W. Greene • Gordon C. Gregory • Phillip Greller • Frederick P. Gressman • Hugo U. Groser • Irving Grossman • Joseph M. Guilfoyle

Patrick Hackett • Gustav J. Gagsedt • James J. Hall • James J. Hamilton • Harry Handilman • Jonathan C. Hansen • Robert Harrington • Phillip Hassinger • Charles F. Hauptner • Charles E. Hecox • Thomas A. Hegarty • John C. Henshaw • AlbertV. Herman • Justin A. Herold • Jeremiah Hickey • Leo B. Hickey • Dudley
Washington Heights-Inwood War Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Devry Becker Jones (CC0), August 29, 2025
2. Washington Heights-Inwood War Memorial
Hill • John Hoage

James J. J. Hoffman • Lewis Hoffman • Newberry Holbrook • Charles F. Horeanburgh • Edward R. Hough • William A. Howe • Albert Huntly • Alexander R. Johnson • William C. Johnson • Roland W. Judd • Joseph Kallas • Frank P. Kappeler • David J. Kasner • Andrew J. Kass • William Kazen • Lester Kearn • Edward Keating • Robert J. Keaton

Charles H. Keegan • Thomas F. Keenan • Emil W. Keinzle • Edward J. Kelley • Francis I. Kelley • Harry J. Kennedy • Joseph A. Kennedy • Gus. Keriacapoulous • Samuel Kestenbaum • Thomas Killeen • Arthur L. King • Louis A. Kline • Samuel Kopf • Albert L. Kreitman • Andrew Kunkele • Frank La Pointe • Albert Larry • John B. La Rose

Edward A. Laubly • Samuel L. Laverty, Jr. • John B. Leitch • Ashley Leonard • Jules A. Leroux • Francis D. Leslie • William Leslie • Henry Leventhal • Samuel J. Lewin • Phillip Levine • Joseph H. Levoy • Oscar P. Lippi • David W. Loeber • John R. Lynn • Patrick Lynn • Samuel A. Macatee • Harold V. MacIntyre • Joseph F. Maher

James A. Mallon • James H. Mallon • Henry G. Malloy • Arthur J. Malone • Harold E. Manners • Harry S. Mansfield • John A. Marino • Louis Markowitz • Philip E. Marrin • Edward H. Martin • Charles Massina • Richard Maybury • Peter
Washington Heights-Inwood War Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Devry Becker Jones (CC0), August 29, 2025
3. Washington Heights-Inwood War Memorial
Paul McArdle • Charles H. McAvoy • James McCauley • John McCollum • John K. McCormick • Scotty McCormick

William A. McCray • Peter McDermott • Eugene M. McGowan • Edward J. McGuiness • William J. McKenna • William W. McLaughlin • George R. McLeod • John A. McLeod • Richard J. McNally • William McNamee • Edward W. McWhirter • Frank Meagher • George R. Meehan • John W. Meeks • William Merk • Fred H. Meyer • David W. Miller • Leon A. Miller

Percy W. Millington • Quincy S. Mills • Roger A. Montgomery • Peter A. Mooney • Paul R. Morgan • Joseph P. Morris • John A. Morrisey • Robert A. Mulcahy • Emil A. Munch • Frank J. Murphy • Edward R. Murray • James E. Murray • Raymond L. Murry • William V. Murtha • Robert P. Neary • Harold G. Nelson • Frank K. Neward • George A. O'Brien

Jeremiah O'Brien • Arthur P. O'Connor • John J. O'Dell • James S. O'Neale • Edward O'Reilley • Edward O'Rilley • Joseph F. O'Rourke • Peter O'Rourke • Harold S. Osgood • Phillip Osmers • Joseph Ostby • John D. Osterberg • Michael R. O'Sullivan • Du Bois S. Owings • Jerry Palamonte • William C. Pauw • Edward Pelkisson • Ernest L. Powell

Walter C. Powell • Norman Powers • Daniel Pritchett • John T. Pryer • William D. Pullen • Vernon Quick • Charles A.
Washington Heights-Inwood War Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Devry Becker Jones (CC0), August 29, 2025
4. Washington Heights-Inwood War Memorial
Quinn • Christopher Quinn • John F. Quinlivan • William F. Rabbot • Robert J. Rabkin • Edward E. Ranft • Joseph Recht • John J. Reilly • Wilbur Reizenstein • Michael Ressner • John A. Reynolds • William L. Reynolds

Victor Ripa • Bernard Ripoll • Henry H. Ritchie • Francis J. Ritz • Carl E. Roedelsperger • James T. Roman • Phillip E. Rosenfeltd • Samuel B. Rottenberg • Thomas V. Rowe • Clarence Roy • Frederick L. Ruben • Abraham H. Rubenstein • Moses Robenstein • David Rubin • William Ruppert • Eric H. Russell • Bernard B. Ryan • James D. Ryder

Edward B. Sargent • Daniel J. Schafer • Harold L. Schiff • Oscar J. Schmied • Harold A. Schofield • Henry J. Schumacher • James Scott • David A. Seery • James Shea • William J. Sheahan • Daniel Sheehan, Jr. • Henry Shuppert • David G. Silverman • James S. Simms • Stanley Sinclair • Edward Sittner • Ernest Slattery • George A. Smith

Harold Smith • Harry G. Smith • George D. Snyder • John E. Snyder • William L. Soeder • Joseph Sparace • Lawrence Spence • William Spencer • Harry Staff • Mandel Steinberg • Leon A. Sterngerber • Walter Stillman • William Strecker • Edward T. Sullivan • Frederick W. Sundermier • Stanley G. Swain • Fred C. Swanson • Alfred A. Sweeting

Kenneth Tappen
Mitchel Square, looking south from West 167th Street image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Larry Gertner, May 28, 2019
5. Mitchel Square, looking south from West 167th Street
• Nester Therol • Andrew Thompson • Henry Thompson • Umberto Trapani • Harry C. Turner • Howard L. Turner • Fred Utroski • Clifford W. Van Allen • Manuel Vanderporter • De-Pennington Veran • Edward Wallace • Ferdinand Wallenstein • Edward Walsh • Edward F. Walsh • William T. Walsh • John E. Warren • Chandler Waterman

William A. Webb • Earl B. Weill • Matthew J. Weldon • Ernest J. Wendt • Edgar M. Whitlock • Harold Whitney • Adolf Wiebel • Walter G. Wilhelm • Stephen Winhold • David Wischer • Frederick Wolfanger • Harold Wolff • Irving M. Wolk • Samuel Youngson • Joseph Zaccharo
 
Erected 1923 by Washington Heights & Inwood Memorial Association.
 
Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: War, World I.
 
Location. 40° 50.425′ N, 73° 56.393′ W. Memorial is in Manhattan, New York, in New York County. It is in Washington Heights. It is at the intersection of Broadway and West 167th Street, on the right on Broadway. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: Mitchel Square, New York NY 10032, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in New York City. It is also in the American Northeast and in the Mid-Atlantic. 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 walking distance of this marker: Maj. John Purroy Mitchel (within shouting distance of this marker); Site of Hilltop Park (about 600 feet away, measured in a direct
Park feature: A Manhattan schist outcropping image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Larry Gertner, May 28, 2019
6. Park feature: A Manhattan schist outcropping
line); Audubon Playground (about 600 feet away); "Listen With Me," 2021 (approx. 0.3 miles away); Jumel Terrace Historic District (approx. 0.3 miles away); J. Rosamond Johnson (approx. 0.4 miles away); a different marker also named Jumel Terrace Historic District (approx. 0.4 miles away); Lawrence Neal (approx. 0.4 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Manhattan.
 
Also see . . .
1. Mitchel Square: Washington Heights-Inwood War Memorial History. Official NYC parks description (Submitted on April 2, 2021, by Larry Gertner of New York, New York.) 

2. Mitchel Square: History. Official NYC Parks entry (Submitted on April 2, 2021, by Larry Gertner of New York, New York.) 
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on September 1, 2025. It was originally submitted on April 2, 2021, by Larry Gertner of New York, New York. This page has been viewed 425 times since then and 52 times this year. Photos:   1. submitted on April 2, 2021, by Larry Gertner of New York, New York.   2, 3, 4. submitted on September 1, 2025, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia.   5, 6. submitted on April 2, 2021, by Larry Gertner of New York, New York.
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