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Bowdoin College War Memorial

 
 
Bowdoin College War Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., September 25, 2011
1. Bowdoin College War Memorial
Inscription.
• Honored Here Are All Bowdoin Generations Who Served When Our Country Called and Those Who Fell •

World War II [Honored Dead]
Korea [Honored Dead]
Vietnam [Honored Dead]

I hear even now the infinite fierce chorus,
The cries of agony, the endless groan.
Which, through the ages that have gone before us,
In long reverberations reach our own.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Class of 1825

They will come together again under higher bidding and will know their place and name. This army will live, and live on so long as soul shall answer soul, so fields of mighty memory....
Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain, Class of 1852

 
Erected by Bowdoin College.
 
Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: War, KoreanWar, VietnamWar, World II.
 
Location. 43° 54.457′ N, 69° 57.82′ W. Memorial is in Brunswick, Maine, in Cumberland County. It can be reached from Park Row. Memorial is just southwest of the Bowdon College campus Main Quad, west of Hubbard Hall. Touch for map. Memorial is in this post office area: Brunswick ME 04011, United States of America. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Greater Portland. It is also in the American Northeast and in New England. Globally, it is in the North Atlantic Region, 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: Bowdoin College World War Memorial (within shouting distance of
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this marker); Robinson Memorial Gate (about 300 feet away, measured in a direct line); a different marker also named Robinson Memorial Gate (approx. 0.2 miles away); Home of Joshua Lawrence Chamberlain (approx. 0.2 miles away); Company K, 1st Maine Volunteer Infantry (approx. Ό mile away); The Harriet Beecher Stowe House (approx. 0.4 miles away); a different marker also named Harriet Beecher Stowe House (approx. 0.4 miles away); Brunswick Veterans Memorial (approx. half a mile away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Brunswick.
 
Bowdoin College War Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., September 25, 2011
2. Bowdoin College War Memorial
Bowdoin College World War II Honored Dead image. Click for full size.
Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., September 25, 2011
3. Bowdoin College World War II Honored Dead
Bowdoin College World War II Honored Dead image. Click for full size.
Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., September 25, 2011
4. Bowdoin College World War II Honored Dead
Bowdoin College World War II Honored Roll image. Click for full size.
Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., September 25, 2011
5. Bowdoin College World War II Honored Roll
Bowdoin College World War II Honored Dead image. Click for full size.
Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., September 25, 2011
6. Bowdoin College World War II Honored Dead
Bowdoin College World War II Honored Dead image. Click for full size.
Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., September 25, 2011
7. Bowdoin College World War II Honored Dead
Bowdoin College World War II Honored Dead image. Click for full size.
Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., September 25, 2011
8. Bowdoin College World War II Honored Dead
Bowdoin College World War II Honored Dead image. Click for full size.
Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., September 25, 2011
9. Bowdoin College World War II Honored Dead
Bowdoin College World War II Honored Dead image. Click for full size.
Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., September 25, 2011
10. Bowdoin College World War II Honored Dead
Bowdoin College Korean War Honored Dead image. Click for full size.
Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., September 25, 2011
11. Bowdoin College Korean War Honored Dead
Bowdoin College Vietnam War Honored Dead image. Click for full size.
Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., September 25, 2011
12. Bowdoin College Vietnam War Honored Dead
Bowdoin College War Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., September 25, 2011
13. Bowdoin College War Memorial
Bowdoin College War Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by William Fischer, Jr., September 25, 2011
14. Bowdoin College War Memorial
Looking northeast into Main Quad
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on November 8, 2024. It was originally submitted on May 19, 2012, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio. This page has been viewed 1,360 times since then and 22 times this year. Photos:   1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14. submitted on May 20, 2012, by William Fischer, Jr. of Reynoldsburg, Ohio.
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