Butler Township in Coldwater in Mercer County, Ohio — The American Midwest (Great Lakes)

Coldwater Veterans Memorial

Photographed by Craig Doda, February 10, 2024

1. Coldwater Veterans Memorial Marker, Side One

Inscription.
Dedicated to all who gave to the cause of freedom

These men gave the supreme sacrifice

World War I
Pvt. Robert B. Birkmeyer • Pvt. Joseph A. Buschur • S2C Clotaire S. Desch • Pvt. Herbert F. Gottes • Pvt. Edward W. Hay • Pvt. Leo Knapschaefer • Pvt. Eldon M. McAfee • Pvt. Jerome J. Obringer • Pvt. Harry H. Reinders • Pvt. Charles V. Snyder

World War II
FM2C William A. Bettinger • S2C Paul A. Buschur • Pfc Walter I. Diller • S1C Omar Klosterman • Pfc Russel K. Reed • Cpl Robert Reno • Pfc Herbert A. Sanning • 1st Lt Luke O. Schockman • Tec 5 William J. Schockman • Pfc Francis Stelzer

Korea
M Sgt C. Conrad McDevitt

Vietnam
Pfc Danny E. Cheadle • Sgt Lawrence D. Jackson

Erected by American Legion Post No. 470, V.F.W. Post No. 5135.

Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: Military.

Location. 40° 29.015′ N, 84° 38.209′ W. Memorial is in Coldwater, Ohio, in Mercer County. It is in Butler Township. It is on West Vine Street, on the left when traveling east. The memorial is located on the south side of Coldwater Memorial Park. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 600 W Vine Street, Coldwater OH 45828, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Ohio’s Till Plains.

It is also in the American Midwest

and in the Corn Belt.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy,

the territory of the Mississippian Culture,

and the Northwest Territory.

Other nearby markers. At least 8

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other markers are within 4 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: The Vietnam Moving Wall (approx. ¼ mile away); "The Cavaliers" (approx. 0.4 miles away); American Legion Post No. 470 Veterans Memorial (approx. half a mile away); Coldwater (approx. 0.9 miles away); a different marker also named Coldwater (approx. one mile away); Saint Elizabeth Cemetery Veterans Memorial (approx. 1.1 miles away); Veterans Memorial (approx. 2.3 miles away); Swamp College Veterans Memorial (approx. 3.9 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Coldwater.

Coldwater Veterans Memorial Marker, Side Two image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Craig Doda, February 10, 2024

2. Coldwater Veterans Memorial Marker, Side Two

Coldwater Veterans Memorial image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Craig Doda, February 10, 2024

3. Coldwater Veterans Memorial

Credits. This page was last revised on February 22, 2024. It was originally submitted on February 11, 2024, by Craig Doda of Napoleon, Ohio. This page has been viewed 379 times since then and 17 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3. submitted on February 11, 2024, by Craig Doda of Napoleon, Ohio. • Andrew Ruppenstein was the editor who published this page.