Lest we Forget Doughboy - Meyersdale, PA
N 39° 48.794 W 079° 01.538
17S E 668995 N 4408892
This Doughboy marks a World War I monument.
Waymark Code: WM14E16
Location: Pennsylvania, United States
Date Posted: 06/21/2021
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The Doughboy is atop a memorial stone. He has his weapon and is walking among war litter and barbed wire. It was erected here by the American Legion Auxiliary Post No. 112 on November 11, 1928.
The base is a stone with a plaque honoring the local veterans of World War I. The plaque reads:
Lest We Forget
In thanksgiving to God for victory
This monument is erected in honor of the men from Meyersdale and vicinity who served in the World War and is dedicated as a sacred memorial to those who died that liberty and the ideals of our Country might be perpetuated.
Gold Star Roll
Charles E. Kelley
Earl H. Opel
William Campbell
Theodore Menhorn
Earl E. Jones
Clarence Sipple
John Tressler
John F. Bahn
Furst Shope
Henry E. Oester
Calvin Werner
Norman Werner
Jacob Beal
Charles Reddinger
Paul Bills
Hulet F. Clawson
Virgil Lowery
Karl Stottler
Hildon Hauger
John Swindell
Wilson McIntyre
Ira G. Newman
Oscar Hutzell
Peter K. Anderson
George Keefer
Joseph Hipp
"At the going down of the sun and in the morning we shall remember them."
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