Floral Park, NY is an incorporated village in Nassau County on Long Island and a neighborhood in the neighboring boro of Queens. Memorial Park is located on a square at Plainfield Avenue, Tulip Avenue, and Floral Parkway.
The plaque below, dedicated by the Floral Park Servicemen's Organization, is "a tribute to the men and women of the community who served in the armed forces in peace and in war.
Remembered on the plaques below are two men of the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth who fought for the colonies in the Revolution; Gen. Tadeusz Kosciuszko and Gen. Kazimierz Pulaski. I don't know about the rest of the country, but these are familiar names on Long Island, even to those without knowledge of Revolutionary heroes. The Kosciuszko Bridge connects Greenpoint, Brooklyn to Maspeth, Queens (both boroughs of New York City) and the Pulaski Skyway is a bridge-causeway in New Jersey.
This separate monument above sits just outside the square pictured at the top of my post, but in the same triangle.
Roll of Honor
1917-1919
Dedicated to the Men of
Floral Park who answered their
Country's call in the Great World War
ARMY
Col. John F. Klein
Capt. Thos. F. Davies
1st. Lt. Frank R. Field
1st. Lt. A. S. Katzman
1st. Lt. E. D. Purcell
2nd. Lt. R. W. Frost
2nd. Lt. Geo. Kitts Jr.
2nd. Lt. W. R. Klein
2nd. Lt. J. Murtaugh Jr.
2nd. Lt. Wm. L. Purcell
Master Gunner L. J. Day
1st. Sgt. J. Bickelhaupt
Sgt. 1Cl. V. G. Childs
Sgt. 1Cl. W. B. Simpson
Sgt. Philip Allen
Sgt. D. Antonnachio
Sgt. Paul Diard
Sgt. A. B. Hendrickson
Sgt. James Logan
Sgt. Wm. R. Maxwell
Sgt. Walter K. Pike
Sgt. Alfred C. Swenson
Sgt. A. Whitehouse
Sgt. Fred L. Zoeller
Corp. Jas. M. Cassidy
Corp. Wm. E. Diard
Corp. K. D. Jamieson
Corp. Frank Krug
Corp. Fred A. Newell
Corp. N. Romanelli
Corp. G. J. Rosenblath
Corp. Geo. W. Wells
Charles Abramofsky
Edwin V. Banta
J. Arthur Baumgartner
Frank P. Baylis
Harold B. Benedict
Joseph F. Biancardi
Norman I. Bird
Eugene Z. Cassidy
John Covert
Joseph L. Domalewski
Gabriel A. Fensterer
J. Bernard Fensterer
George Filaski
Thomas Fleming
Herbert E. Frost
Herman M. Fuldner
Olaf. G. Gerdin
Joseph Glemboski
George Godesky
John Grygo
Paul Grygo
Theodore W. Hawkinson
Howard C. Hayden
Robert M. Hinds
Christian A. Holderer
Herluf Holm
Anthony Di C. Huber
J. Burgess Jamieson
Carl Jensen
John W. Jones
Carl Jorgensen
Walter Kane
Vincent T. Kenney
J. Shorkley Klein
Olaf B. Knudsen
John Laskowski
Chas. A. P. Lohmuller
Eugene J. Loughery
Ernest Lyons
Thomas W. Lyons
Alfred Marciano
Alpidio Merola
David Mulcahy
Irving L. O'Halleran
James O'Keefe
Robert R. Pearson
Otto I. Peterson
Harold S. Pike
Harold C. Purcell
Harry Roseen
J. George Ruf
Philip F. Stattel
August Swenson
William H. Tagg
Charles Thiemsen
Harry Thiemsen
William T. Thompson
Vernon D. Tuttle
E. D. Van Nostrand
Henry J. Wells
Joseph J. Wells
Harry H. Wiggins
George Wilson
John W. Wilson
Robert Wright
DIED IN SERVICE
Sergt. Byron M. Thurston
Mortimer C. Lyons
Harry Homeyer
NAVY
Lt. Anthony Sawacki
Gunner Robert S. Kirk
Cox. Ward L. Hoffman
Anthony Auer
Elliot I. Baylis
Leon N. Bissell
Roscoe Crawford
Michael Gozley
George M. Hart
Charles G. Hinds
William H. Hinds
John Hummell
Frank Julien
John Keithley
Alfred J. Loew
George T. Lyes
Frank R. Mullin
John Mumford
August A. Odermatt
Joseph A. Odermatt
William Scherrer
Harold Williams
William J. Wissbach
Back on the central monument is the roll of honor above with the names of those who were killed in WWI and WII.
Floral Park
1917-1919 1941-1945
In Memory Of
the Men Who Made
The Supreme Sacrifice in
World Wars I and II
In Defense of our country
World War I
Byron M. Thurston
Mortimer C. Lyons
Harry Homeyer
World War II
Richard A. Anderson
Joseph J. Auld
Walter Baxter, Jr.
Zygmunt S. Bramowski
Claude E. Burk
Stephen V. Cannone
John L. Childs II
J. Wesley Cook
Arvid N. Dahlstrom
Robert L. Damm
James J. Donnelly, Jr.
John G. Donohue
Frank Fischer, Jr.
Robert R. Flack
Richard W. Fletcher
Joseph Funk
Eugene O. Gladd
Mitchell Gottman
Albert H. Gourdon
Paul E. Gourdon
Paul S. Hayward
Joseph C. Hubbard
Peter M. Jacobchek
John Jankowski
Stanley E. Jankowski
Robert E. Kime
Edward W. Gehrke
Robert A. Klahn
John J. Kney, Jr.
Walter J. Korrow
Gerard G. Krug
Anthony Ksiazek
Arthur R. Mallette
Warren H. McNeill
Joseph E. Notary
Charles Holbrook Olsen
Charles F. Peck
Walter F. Pfeffer
Joseph A. Randazzo
Donald W. Regan
George Rucker
Edwin F. Schuler
Robert J. Sica
Robert G. Silberman
George Steinheuser, Jr.
Myron L. Stillman
Joseph Strube
William G. Te-Gussinklo
August A. Venezia
John M. Wallace
Leroy P. Williams
Harold Winges
Alwynne W. Wood
James W. Zeigon
And these to those who were killed in Korea and Vietnam.
IN MEMORY OF
THE MEN WHO MADE
THE SUPREME SACRIFICE
IN THE KOREAN CONFLICT
IN DEFENSE OF WORLD FREEDOM
Austin W. Beetle, Jr.
Robert N. Howe
William E. Jordan
Edward J. Rock, Jr.
IN MEMORY OF
THE MEN WHO MADE
THE SUPREME SACRIFICE
IN THE VIETNAM CAMPAIGN
Michael B. Alberici
Edward R. Beasley
Arthur R. Kearney
Peter Roche
John J. Stahl
Charles J. Vion
This plaque honors all the veterans of Afghanistan and Iraq.
