Manville Veterans Common dedicated trees - Manville, Rhode Island - Dedicated Trees on Waymarking.com

A grove of fifteen Crimson Maples in Manville Veterans Common is dedicated to fifteen service members who died in World War I, World War II, and the Korean War. The small public park just south of the Blackstone River and the local Post Office in Manville, Rhode Island, is also home to the Alfred U. Menard Bandstand gazebo. The octagonal structure on the east end of the green sits among the trees and memorial monuments.

Two engraved dedication plaques of gray granite are embedded flush within the center of the gazebo floor. The north marker refers to the surrounding trees dedicated to Manville citizens who were wartime casualties; the southern plaque denotes the bandstand's honoree. They read:

THESE 15 CRIMSON MAPLES REPRESENT
A LIVING MEMORIAL FOR THE 15 VETERANS
FROM THE VILLAGE OF MANVILLE WHO MADE
THE SUPREME SACRIFICE DEFENDING OUR COUNTRY
WORLD WAR I 1917 - 1918 ALPHONSE YELLE - LUCIEN LARIVIERE - RUSSELL BORNE
WORLD WAR II 1941 - 1945
THEODORE SUPTELNY - DOLLARD BRISSETTE
MARCELL DUHAMEL - LEO LAMBERT
ROLAND POISSON - JEAN LEBOEUF
ARMAND COURNOYER - GERALD BOUSQUET
EUGENE LAFOND - EUGENE TESSIER
KOREA 1950 - 1953
GERARD MILLETTE - DONALD CASTONGUAY
DONATED BY THE FOLLOWING
ROSE ALMA GOBEILLE - MATHILDA BLUNT
RAYMOND R. PONTBRIAND - MARCEL & CLAIRE COMIRE
EMILIENNE MANDEVILLE - RICHARD & DOROTHY POISSON
ALDO & MADELEINE CAVALLARO - RAY & ROSE MARIE DEPAULT
BRIAN & ROBERTA HUNTER - LINCOLN LIONS CLUB
MENDARD ELECTRIC INC
IN MEMORY OF - ISAIE LANDREVILLE
FRANK & MARIE ANNE MASSON - EUGENE H. MENARD
VERNON A. RAINVILLE
DEDICATED JUNE 14, 1992

THIS BANDSTAND IS DEDICATED TO
THE HONORABLE
ALFRED U. MENARD
SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE
OF THE RI HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES
WHO SERVED THIS VILLAGE FAITHFULLY
FROM 1935 THROUGH 1965