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District of Columbia War Memorial

 
 
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1. District of Columbia War Memorial Marker
Inscription.
A memorial to the armed forces from the District of Columbia who served their country in the World War

This memorial was erected through the voluntary subscriptions of the people of Washington • It was dedicated on Armistice Day Nineteen Hundred and Thirty-One by by Herbert Hoover President of the United States • Within this corner-stone are recorded the names of the twenty-six thousand Washingtonians who when the United States entered the World War answered the call to arms and served in the Army Navy Marine Corps and Coast Guard.

The names of the men and women from the District of Columbia who gave their lives in the World War are here inscribed as a perpetual record of their patriotic services to their country • Those who fell and those who survived have given to this and to future generations an example of high idealism courageous sacrifice and gallant achievement.

Earl Adams • Edward L. Adams • Alexander K. Anderson • Frederick Anderson • Louis C. Anderson • William Arnold • Melvin M. Augenstein • Eugene H. Austin • Curtis R. Auten • Ellis B. Babcock • Carrington E. Bailey • Philip
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M. Bailley • Wilk S. Baker • William H. Baker • John Thomas Banks • Bernard B. Barnes • Warren R. Barnes • Charles M. Barnett • Frederick Barrack • Morris R. Barssock • George Cleveland Bates • William L. Baurman • Benjamin Baylor • Louis H. Bayly • Walker Blaine Beale • James D. Bebout • William E. Bell • Abe Bellmore • Harry O.T. Benson • Samuel B. Beyer • Arthur Everett Birkle • John A. Bligh • Walter R. Blue • John Maurice Bohrer • Charles H. Bolden • James L. Booth • Lewis H. Boss • Carl Augustus Bostrom • Franklin K. Boswell • Alexander A. Boteler • Wilber H. Boteler • William Boxley • Elmer Francis Boyd • Wilbur Leroy Boyer • Clarence M. Brandenburg • Guy E. Brandt • Mack Bray • John F.X. Brennan • Charles Joseph Brewer • William I. Brooke • Harold F. Brooks • Charles La Ray Brown • Douglas M. Brown • Edward Joseph Brown • James R. Brown • Oliver Brown • Thomas Brown • Wilmarth Brown • Sidney H. Bryan • Victor Buchalter

Chester W. Buchanan • William R. Buchanan • Joseph Budd • Albert O. Burgdorf • John Irving Burns • Millard
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2. District of Columbia War Memorial
M. Burrows • Mattie Virginia Bushee • Raymond P. Cady • Francis Quigley Carr • Roy C. Carroll • Edward Carter • Hiram F. Cash • John A. Chamberlin • Charles E. Chambers • Henry E. Chandler • Kenneth B. Charlton • Volney O. Chase • Philip G. Chaves • Alfred Cherner • George B. Chew Jr. • William Luck Chinn • Charles E. Clark • Charles Elsworth Clark • Harold M. Clark • Alan Ogilvie Clephane • Ralph McKinley Coates • Harry K. Cochran • Howard R. Colbert • John Cole • James H. Coleman • Warren Coleman • Henry Teller Collison • Clarence M. Collord • Max L. Colman • Thomas T. Colmesnil • Edward T. Comegys • Willis E. Comfort • William J. Compher • Boyd F. Conley • John J. Connors • George Thomas Contee • Andrew H. Cookman • Vincent Genger Cooley • James A. Cooper • Ernest A. Corbin • Vincent B. Costello • Edward R. Cramer • Daniel W. Crawford • Harold Lee Crawford • John Crilly Jr. • Joseph V. Cullen • Louis A. Currier • John S. Curry • John J. Daly • William F. Daughton • Alvin Elliott Davis • Harry Genther Davis • Horace M. Davis • Hugh
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3. District of Columbia War Memorial
Mackay Davis • Stafford L. Davis • Harry T. Davison Jr. • Alexander R. Dean • James Leslie Dean • Charles Smith Deans • Edward H. De Gaw

Stafford G. De Lesdernier • Nicholas J. Demopoulos • Edward G. De Paschalis • William K. Dieste • J. Forsyth Digges • William Godfrey Dillon • Myron D. Dodge • Thomas E. Donovan • Thomas J. Doran • Tony Dordos • Herman W. Dorr • Aloysius Dorsey • James W. Dorsey Jr. • Julian Noyes Dowell • Albert Thomas Drake • Cornelius A. Driscoll • Sylvester Duckett • Edward Joseph Dudley • Frank E. Dunkin • Henry Albert Dunn • Arthur H. Dutton • Julius E. Eades • Ellette Tuncle Early • John H. Easton • George Robert Edelen • Charles M. Edwards • John George Egerton • Louis E. Eisensmith • Theodore S. Elliott • Arthur T. Elmore • Ernest W. Emery • George D. English • John I. Eopolucci • William A. Eopolucci • John F. Evans • John W. Evans • John F. Evansha • Frank T. Fagan • Frederick J. Fagan • Abraham J. Fainman • Thomas H. Farnsworth • Foster Cabert Felton • William D. Fenwick • Frederick Fickling • Franklin
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E. Fletcher • Joseph H. Ford • Franklyn G. Fox • Hilary Reid Frazier • Charles A. Fuches • Joseph L. Garner • John Gately • William Joseph Geary • James W. Geddes • William H. Giles • Ernest I. Gillem • Alfred Glascock • Harold L. Gochenour • James R. Goggins Jr. • Victoria Good • Frank Gordon • James N.H. Gordon • Raymond L. Gordon • Albert Goss • George H. Gray

Donald R. Green • John A. Green • John D. Green • Robert G. Greenwell • Robert R. Griffith • Benjamin J. Griswold • William H. Gross • Gordon James Groves • Allen T. Grymes • Clarence L. Gunnell • Pete Haddad • James F. Hagan • Maurice Leo Harding • William W. Hardy • Arthur A. Harig • J. Randolph Harman • Warren G. Harries • Aloysius D. Harris • Charles D. Harris • Richard Samuel Harris • Morgan B. Harvey • John A. Havener • Harry W. Hawes • Bertha Ryan Hayes • Charles Henry • Enrique Hernandez • William Leland Hibbs • Edward S. Higdon • George Chaffee Hill • Maron Lester Hodgson • Leroy B. Holcombe • Claude Holley • Frank Willard Hollows • Henry S. Holmes • Mathew
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Holmes • James R. Hopkins • Wallace F. Howard • William B. Hudson • Charles F. Huntemann • Henry Hunter • Paul L. Hurdle • James William Hurley • Francis Hutchins • Harry Frederick Huth • Maurice James Hutton • Daniel M. Jackson • Edward Jackson • George Jackson • Joseph J. Jackson • Wilson W. Jackson • Chas. A. Rhett Jacobs • Roger W. Jannus • Hubert Alfred Johnson • James Johnson • James W. Johnson • Milton Johnson • James Rawlins Jones • Marcus A. Jordon • Stanton F. Kalk • David Kay

John Joseph Keady • James Keeley • John O. Kelser • John A. Kendall • Frank S. Kennedy • Harry B. Kennedy • Maurice Keplinger • John A. Kersey • James W. Keyes • William George Kidd • Allen L. Kidwell • George Emmett Killeen • Harry L. Kimmell • James L.G. King • Ralph Melvin King • French Kirby • Clarence A. Knudtson • Herbert Graham Kubel • Leo Laffey • John M. Lambert • Relious Latney • William J. Lawless • Robert L. Lawson • Fred Lee • Malachi Lee • Kenneth Lewis • Lloyd Baxter Liebler • Harry D. Lombardi • John James Loulan • Norman A.
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6. District of Columbia War Memorial
Loveless • Joseph Lovings • William T. Lusby • Earl L. Lyles • Thomas Michael Lynch • Douglas C. Mabbott • Charles W. MacDonald • Lee B. Magner • George Magruder • Maurice F. Mahoney • Maurice J. Mahoney • Donald H. Manning • William S. Manning • Peyton C. March Jr. • Stuart Leroy Marlow • Theodore C. Marrs • Harace Matthews • Victor E.J. Mayer • Aubrey Allen Mayo • Aloysius McCauley • John B. McCauley • George Baldwin McCoy • Joseph G. McDonald • J.A. Ray McFadden • Stephen P. McGroarty • Edward E. McKenzie • William M. McKimmie • Wilson Meads • Milton S. Medley • David L. Meeks • Robert E. Meinekheim

Carl Frederick Miller • Lemuel B. Miller Jr. • Samuel Miller Jr. • Carl Olin Minor • Antonio Missini • Theodore N. Mitchell • William George Moore • Edward S. Morgan Jr. • John Francis Moriarty • John C. Morrison • Howard H. Morrow • Carl Joseph Munch • Beatrice T. Murphy • John Joseph Murphy • Evans Elliott Murray • Hagop Musekian • Matt Francis Myers • James Barbour Nalle • Richard A. Nally • Kenneth H. Nash • Frank R. Needham • Francis
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Emmett Neil • Clair T. Newell • Irving T.C. Newman • Frank Edward Newton • Louis A. Niedomanski • Henry Francis Nolan • James Francis Noone • Seymour Nottingham • David T. O'Connell • Francis A. O'Connor • John F. O'Connor • Dave Oettinger • Helen V. Orchard • Leo J. Osborne • Thomas O'Toole • Lenwood Hughes Ott • Phillips W. Page • Richard Walter Parfet • John Pate • Griffin Payne • Joseph Peluzzo • Joseph B. Phelps • John Manly Pickrell • Blance E. Pierce • Charles Edwin Poates • George W. Polhemus • John Prender Jr. • Ralph Pumphrey • Israel Putnam • Albert Zane Pyles • W. Otis Quesenberry • William Dec. Revenel Jr. • William F. Redman • William Aubrey Reed • William T. Reiley • Ralph W. Remick • Frederick T. Remler • William L. Rhine • Franklin A. Richards • Charles David Ricker • James W. Riddick • William H. Ritenour • George R. Robinson • Harold M. Robinson

Jesse Morse Robinson • Edward L. Roche • Alexander Rodgers Jr. • Warner M. Rodgers • William H. Rollins • Robert C. Rusk • Thomas Russell • Ferdinand Sauers • Ernest C. Schleith • Frederick W. Schutt • Paul B. Schwegler • Henry H. Scott • John Crawford Scott • John H. Seaburn • Chase Emily Sebold • George Vaughn Seibold • Valentine Sellers • Richard Mc A. Shamley • William A. Sheehan • Robert L. Shepherd • Philip H. Sheridan • George Shoulders • Abraham W. Sidkowsky • Leo I. Simmons • William P. Slattery • Carroll B. Smith • Ernest Smith • Ernest S. Smith • Francis Marion Smith • Israel Smith • James E. Smith • James L. Smith • Tony Smith • William F. Smith • Harry F. Smurr • Edward P. Sneed • Maurice B. Snyder • Norman H. Sonnemann • Samuel W. Sowerbutts • Henry C. Spengler • Edwin Leo Springmann • Ralph Stambaugh • Edwin M. Stanton • Percy Albert Stein • Albert B. Stelzer • James Stepheny • John Wellington Stepp • Louis G. Stevens • George E. Stewart • Joseph C. Stewart • Raymond L. Stewart • Francis W. Stone Jr. • Peter Strickland • George Word Strieby • Benjamin F. Strothers • Albert D. Sturtevant • Harry M. Sullivan • John Sullvon • Allen M. Sumner • Howard G. Swann • Robert E. Symmonds • Charles P. Talks • George Tarantino • John H. Taylor

William Mc K. Taylor • Francis A. Tennant • Emil Theiss • William E. Thomas • Raymond W. Thompson • George K. Thornton • Lula May Thrift • Russell D. Tibbitts • Albert W. Tierney • Clarence Tillman • J. Wilder Tomlinson • Philip H. Toomey • William G. Toone • Henry Peirce Torrey • Lawrence Townsend Jr. • Charles Ashby Towson • Francis M. Tracy • John G. Utterback • Frank C. Valentine • Arthur G. Vanderlip • Stanley Vanderwalker • Dean R. Van Kirk • John W. Vinson • B. Stuart Walcott • Leonard Waldman • Hall Christie Walker • James Edward Walker • Louis Walker • John B. Warfield • Benjamin Warner • Edward M. Watkins • Charles S. Weaver • Carl H. Weber • Charles F. Wedderburn • Benjamin W. Wells Jr. • John W. Wheeler • Albert White • Robert L. Whitehand • Raymond Whitney • Victor M. Whitside • Edwin Earl Wilkerson • Laurence O. Wilkins • Gui I. Willard • Frank Aloysius Willeke • Archie W. Williams • Arthur F. Williams • Guy Williams • James H. Williams • Lea D. Williams • Lloyd Williams • Survain A. Williams • Price Williamson • Robert L. Willingham • Harry V. Wilson • John W. Wilson • Harold D. Winans • Carl Alfred Woline • John Boyd Wolverton • John H. Woodson • Harmon George Young
 
Erected 1931 by People of Washington; Frederick H. Brooke, Architect; Horace W. Peaslee and Nathan C. Wyeth, Associates Architects.
 
Topics and series. This memorial is listed in this topic list: War, World I. In addition, it is included in the Former U.S. Presidents: #31 Herbert Hoover series list.
 
Location. 38° 53.256′ N, 77° 2.611′ W. Memorial is in Southwest Washington in Washington, District of Columbia. It is in The National Mall. It is on Independence Avenue Southwest east of West Basin Drive Southwest, on the right when traveling west. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 1850 Ash Rd, Washington DC 20006, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in the Washington Metropolitan Area. It is also in the American Northeast, in the Upper South, in the Mid-Atlantic, in the Tidewater, and in the Chesapeake Bay Region. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: A different marker also named District of Columbia War Memorial (within shouting distance of this marker); Visit the New US Park Police Horse Stables & Education Center (about 300 feet away, measured in a direct line); Home for Horses (about 500 feet away); The First Japanese Cherry Trees (about 600 feet away); The Gift of Trees (about 700 feet away); A Symbol of International Friendship (about 700 feet away); "Make No Little Plans" (approx. 0.2 miles away); Not Forgotten (approx. 0.2 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Southwest Washington.
 
Other markers no longer nearby. District of Columbia World War Memorial (was a few steps from this marker but has been replaced with another marker now near it); The Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial (was about 600 feet away but has been replaced with another marker now near it); Martin Luther King, Jr. Memorial (was about 600 feet away but has been permanently removed); Japanese Pagoda (was about 700 feet away but has been permanently removed); The 1912 Cherry Tree Plantings (was about 700 feet away but has been replaced with another marker now near it); Japanese Stone Lantern (was about 700 feet away but has been replaced with another marker now near it); Lighting the Way (was about 700 feet away but has been replaced with another marker now near it).
 
Also see . . .  District of Columbia War Memorial Photos 11-26-2022. Additional photos from the memorial (Submitted on November 27, 2022, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia.) 
 
Additional commentary.
1. About the language on the memorial
While the people who live in the District of Columbia on the memorial are called Washingtonians, the current official term for people who live in the territory is DC Residents.
    — Submitted November 27, 2022, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia.
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on January 30, 2023. It was originally submitted on November 27, 2022, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia. This page has been viewed 1,648 times since then and 65 times this year. Photos:   1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. submitted on November 27, 2022, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia.
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