Blue Island in Cook County, Illinois — The American Midwest (Great Lakes)
Blue Island Memorial Roll
Photographed by Sean P. Flynn, May 31, 2025
1. Blue Island Memorial Roll Marker
1917-1918
Raymond Eames Stanley Fay Ernest Fischer Albert Hecht Herman Klopp Antonio Louis George Ruff Walter C. Schoenenberger Frank Steffes Charles L. Weimar Leo Wolshon Homer Woods Walter Wykoff
1941-1945
Aurelio C. Alvarado Tom J. Artist William H. Bradford Samuel Bruno Clifford L. Bausor Edward C. Buczek Albert L. Corradino Donald B. Cox August W. Diedsech Vincent S. Dyroz Ralph Duey Benjamin J. Dominik Wallace H. Earnest Edward W. Edwards Robert Eiserstedt Leonard A. Engstrom Kenneth O. Erickson Joseph Errico Ernest F. Evanson Florian Feliszak Loyal Flassig Roy B. Fox James Frundle Edward Haake Ross H. Hall Edward V. Henschler Howard G. Herzog Ray C. Hochheimer Norman B. Huebner Byron L. Higgins William A. Hildahl Norbert Jauchzer Keith M. Jones James N. Jepeway Donald O. Kasch Robert Krueger III Harold P. Kuruzar Stewart F. Kauffman George Lair Earl Legg Walter E. Liddle Erwin Lunn Ralph P. Mear Trino Mendez Norman R. Miller Jack H. Mohr John F. Moore Russell C. Morse Raymond Nelson Charles E. Oetjen Anthony Orseno Richard W. Paulsen John C. Rieger Allen E. Rolette Harry E. Rito Norman Sands Andrew Sterkowitz Peter Soria Paul Stefek Jules Thiebert
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Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: War, World I • War, World II.
Location. 41° 39.657′ N, 87° 41.28′ W. Memorial is on Blue Island, Illinois, in Cook County. It can be reached from Highland Avenue 0.1 miles south of 127th Street, on the right when traveling south. The memorial is one of several war memorials found near the center of Memorial Park. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 12804 Highland Avenue, Blue Island IL 60406, United States of America. Touch for directions.
Regionally, this memorial is in Greater Chicago. It is also in the American Midwest and on the Great Lakes. Globally, it is in North America, the Western Hemisphere, the Western World, and the Anglosphere. Historically, it finds itself in what was once the Viceroyalty of New France, the territory of the Mississippian Culture, and the Northwest Territory.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker: Blue Island Korean War Veterans Memorial (here, next to this marker); Blue Island Vietnam Veterans Memorial (here, next to this marker); Grand Army of the Republic (here, next to this marker); In Honor and Remembrance of America's Women (here, next to this marker); Spanish-American War Memorial (a few steps from this marker); A-7D Corsair II (within shouting distance of this marker); U.S. 4.7 Inch Studebaker Field Gun Model 1906 (about 300 feet away, measured in a direct line); Blue Island Cemetery (about 400 feet away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Blue Island.
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Photographed by Sean P. Flynn, May 31, 2025
2. War memorials at Memorial Park
The Memorial Roll plaque is affixed to a rock immediately behind the flag pole in the photo.
Photographed by Sean P. Flynn, May 31, 2025
3. Memorial Park recreation building
The set of war memorials is just north of the recreation buliding
Courtesy of Chicago History Museum (ICHi-171947)
4. Raymond Rexford Eames (1890-1918)
Raymond Eames was born in Blue Island in 1890 and raised in this community south of Chicago. He enlisted in the U.S. Marine Corps in 1917 and was deployed in France in 1918 as a private in the 96th Company, 6th Regiment, 2nd Division. On June 14, 1918, Eames was serving as a rifleman during the Battle of Belleau Wood near Lucy-le-Bocage when his unit hit by a German gas attack. Eames died about two weeks later, on June 29, 1918, in a Red Cross Hospital in Paris. Eames is buried in the Suresnes American Cemetery on the outskirts of Paris. His photograph is part of an archive of photographs of Chicago-area servicemembers who died in World War I that is preserved by the Chicago History Museum.
Photographed by Sean P. Flynn, May 31, 2025
5. Blue Island Memorial Roll Marker
Credits. This page was last revised on September 19, 2025. It was originally submitted on June 8, 2025, by Sean P. Flynn of Oak Park, Illinois. This page has been viewed 173 times since then and 38 times this year. Photos: 1. submitted on June 8, 2025, by Sean P. Flynn of Oak Park, Illinois. 2, 3. submitted on June 3, 2025, by Sean P. Flynn of Oak Park, Illinois. 4, 5. submitted on June 9, 2025, by Sean P. Flynn of Oak Park, Illinois.
