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Foster Center in Providence County, Rhode Island — The American Northeast (New England)
 

WW II Veterans Memorial

Foster, RI

 
 
WW II Veterans Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Devry Becker Jones (CC0), September 19, 2026
1. WW II Veterans Memorial
Inscription.
Howard Vanasse • George Brayton POW • Reino Tikkanen • Lester Prior • John Simula • Clinton Hopkins • Clarence Smith • Henry Randall • Eleanor Carlson • Norman Tucker • Leonard Shippee • William Harrington • Charles Sweet Jr • Walter Grass • Francis Berholic • David Law • James Colleander • Kenneth Walker • Lester Salisbury • W. Carleton Cole • William McCormick • Alcott Phillips • Joseph Coates Jr. • Everett Shippee • William Cummings KIA • Irby Blackmar • Russell Borders • Leslie Salisbury KIA • Charles Cole • Jacob Kivisto • Howard Wood • George Kivisto • Leonard Shippee • Walter Shippee • Walter Law • George Dexter • Arthur L. Verchot Jr.

William H. Luther SS • Weldon Rounds • Robert Salisbury • Arhtur Holdsworth • Harold Holdsworth • Milton Holdsworth • Walter Bartlett • Fred Kettle • Russell Wells • Robert Rickard • Berrick Dewhirst Jr • Albert Thoman • George Luther • Thomas Chatterton • Dorothy Huse Rounds • Maurice Dunbar • Carl White PH • Eugene DeMerchant • William Bellows • Harold Tucker KIA • Albert
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Dunbar • Frank Law • Harold Sweet • Mason Bennis • Virginia Springler • William Thoman • William Lamphere • Walter May Sr • Newell Wright • John Jehu • Leslie Law • Robin Burling • Wilfred Thoman • Albert King • Joseph Duclau • Leroy Duclau

George Newman PH • Norman Wright • Paul Adler • Joseph Wright Sr • Richard Henry • Paul Dunbar • Onni Oksanen • John Lamphere • Clifford Farrell • Eli Bellows • Norman Potter • Otis DeMerchant • Wallace Webster • Raymond Prew • George Reed Jr • Donald Haskell • Charles Dexter • Helen Bodge • Roland Thoman • Willis Collins • Edwin Luther • Elmer Reed KIA • Herbert Cooke • Jarvis Dunbar • James Rounds • Clifford Law • Walter Brayton Jr • J. Keidel Hopkins • Kenneth Thoman • Robert Cummings • Kenneth Karolie • Monroe Knight • Raymond O'Dette • Ernest Paine • Stanley Rounds • Arnold Kennedy
 
Topics. This memorial is listed in this topic list: War, World II.
 
Location. 41° 47.072′ N, 71° 43.26′ W. Memorial is in Foster, Rhode Island, in Providence County.
Veterans Memorials image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Devry Becker Jones (CC0), September 19, 2026
2. Veterans Memorials
It is in Foster Center. It is at the intersection of South Killingly Road and Howard Hill Road, on the left when traveling south on South Killingly Road. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 2 S Killingly Rd, Foster RI 02825, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in the Quiet Corner and in Greater Providence. It is also in the American Northeast, in New England, and on the Eastern Seaboard. 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 one of the original Thirteen Colonies.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 4 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Veterans Memorial (here, next to this marker); Benjamin Eddy Building (a few steps from this marker); Town Jail (a few steps from this marker); Foster Town House (about 400 feet away, measured in a direct line); Town Pound (approx. 0.2 miles away); New Rockland Cemetery (approx. 2.4 miles away); Clayville: Comb Factory Village (approx. 2.6 miles away); Gaetano Del Guidice
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(approx. 3.3 miles away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Foster.
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on September 30, 2026. It was originally submitted on September 30, 2026, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia. This page has been viewed 3 times since then. Photos:   1, 2. submitted on September 30, 2026, by Devry Becker Jones of Washington, District of Columbia.
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Oct. 8, 2026