Roll of Honor - Chesapeake City, MD - Smithsonian Art Inventory Sculptures on Waymarking.com

Photos taken on 17 December 2022. The plaque is about 3 feet wide and is elevated by about 5 feet above the sidewalk. It is on a concrete base facing towards the street. it features reliefs of two figures. Both are holding swords.

The plaque says, "This tablet is dedicated by the people of Chesapeake City and the Second Election District of Cecil County, Maryland,
to those of their number who offered their lives in defense of humanity in the Great War of Nations 1914 - 1918
Roll of Honor
"Lest we forget"

Killed in Action
John Hager • Eugene Hevlow • William Slicher

Died of Disease
George Mercer • William Bowie

[Veterans]
Carl Axford • Charles C. Banks • John Banks • Roland C. Bedwell • Linden R. Bell • Walter Blair • Raymond C. Blanchfield • George Borem • Charles H. Boots • Paul Brady • Philip Brady • William W. Broadwater, Jr. • B. Howard Brown • Jesse R. Brown • Leroy Bloomer • Henry A. Cleaver • George Clifton • Thomas Clifton • Walter Coleman • Joseph S. Fears • Fred Fillingame • Howard P. Fowler • John W. Freet • J. Raymond Hallman • Herbert C. Hannigan • Edwin N. Harmer • Leon Harmer • Herbert Herman • John G. Hopper • Edward S. Lloyd • John C. Loraine • Toward N. Loraine, Jr. • Fred Loveless • Z. T. Loveless • Herbert A. Mellor Jr. • Ralph K. Middleton • Alan H. Miller • Ralph E. Morgan • Clarence Nowland • C. Parker Nowland • Cleveland Ott • Leland Ott • G. Dewey Plummer • Frank B. Price • William H. Purdy, Jr. • Edward Reynolds • David E. Savin • Thomas Savin • Charles J. Schaefer • Joseph E. Schaefer, Jr. • Richard Seward • Robert Seward • Charles F. Stapp • J. Albert Stapp • Augustus Tatman • George L. Whitlock • John H. Whitlock • Frank E. Williams, Jr. • John Jay Williams • Wallace Williams • J. Caroll Woolleyhan Colored John Bowie, Jr. • Bernice Christopher Carter • Harry Jackson • William Henry Jones • Ireland Longer • Sheridan Veale • Arthur Wallace • Rufus S. Wallace • Elsworth Warrick • Fletcher J. White

Dedicated November 11 1919"

TITLE: World War I Monument, Chesapeake City ARTIST(S): Unknown DATE: Nov. 11, 1919 MEDIUM: Sculpture: bronze; Base: granite CONTROL NUMBER: IAS MD000510 Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link] PHYSICAL LOCATION: Town of Chesapeake City, Town Hall, Bohemia Street, Chesapeake City, Maryland 21915 DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN THE INVENTORY LISTING AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH: None noted

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