Sodus Point World War I Memorial

Sodus Point veterans who fought in World War I included Charles Fairbanks, Ernest Grosz, Otto R. Grosz, John W. LaGasse, John McMillan, Delancy Smith, and Abram T. Tack. John McMillan died in 1918 in a French hospital from pneumonia, almost certainly as part of the influenza epidemic. The memorial was originally dedicated on May 24, 1929, Memorial Day, by the Sodus Point John McMillan American Legion Post 910 with tablets for John McMillan and Delaney Smith, and it included a machine gun given to the post as a captured war trophy. On August 17, 1961, the barrel portion of the machine gun was stolen. In December 2016, David Ross and his Williamson BOCES class constructed a replica of the machine gun from blueprints, and in April 2017, on the 100th anniversary of the country’s entrance into World War I, the memorial was rededicated in honor of these men so that their sacrifice would not be forgotten.

Sodus Point, New York · United States