The Honor Roll Project - Lawrence and Cedarhurst, NY

As part of Heather Wilkinson Rojo's Honor Roll Project, I have transcribed these Rolls of Honor in Cedarhurst, NY to make the names visible to search engines so that family researchers can find them. 

Cedarhurst Memorial Plaza is a beautiful spot created after 9/11. It contains the Flagpole Memorial that was erected in 1922.

The Flagpole Memorial contains five plaques. The first is an Honor Roll of those who died in WWI.

Harry P. Bruhn

John R. Lantry

John E. Mitchell

Gordon L. Rand

Philip N. Rhinelander

James L. Scanlan

John J. Sullivan

Ralph B. Watts

Lawrence J. Wood

The second is dedicated to the men of Lawrence and Cedarhust who were killed in WWII.

Frederick F. Alexandre, Jr.

Albert K. Back

Henry O. Benedict

Edward S. Bently, Jr.

Saul M. Berkeley

Vito M. Bertucci

Daniel Brown

James Philip Cahan, III

Byron H. Carpenter, Jr.

Frank J. Doft

Eugene A. Epstein

Charles Fitch

Albert C. Herring, Jr.

Walter Hetrick, Jr.

John Horton Ijams, Jr.

Abraham H. Klubock

Keijo J. Laakso

Flamer S. Lent

Raymond P. Leroy

Ferdinand Mazzeo

Joseph E. Mero

Frank H. Mieroff

George T. Purves, Jr.

Richard L. Rizzo

George  A. Rorer, Jr.

Abraham H. Schlesinger

James C. Slattery

Kingdon Sterngold

John Hobart Thompson

George H. Tilghman

DeForest Van Slyck, Jr.

Edward Watts, Jr.

George Williams

Gabriel E. Wishbow

This plaque was erected by the Lawrence-Cedarhurst American Legion post and is in memory of those lost in Korea and Vietnam.

Korea:

Anthony Molinaro

Edgar J. Treacy

Bernard J. Gilroy

Vietnam:

George J. Canamare

George W. Carpenter

The next plaque at the flagpole honors four chaplains who went down on the same ship and gave their life jackets to others so they might live. None of the four has any connection to this area that I could find, but there seem to be at least a few memorials around the country to these brave men.

The last plaque here is a tribute to the veteran.

This post marks the end of my work on this project for now. I have found a few more rolls of honor that I have not been able to photograph as of now, but I will at some point in the future. I've really enjoyed getting to see the various ways that our Long Island veterans are remembered by their communities and I hope that this work helps their descendants find them on these monuments.