New Bloomfield World War I Memorial

From 1917 to 1919, people from New Bloomfield and Centre Township left their community to promote world freedom and preserve the safety and honor of their country during World War I. A tablet was erected in their honor out of deep appreciation, naming D. Neil Harper, William M. Heckendorn, Harold B. Millington, Edward L. Moore, Wilbert L. Shumaker, Frank A. Adams, J. Porter Adams, Raymond Adams, J. Stewart Askins, Joseph A. Baker, George H. Bernheisel, M. Melville Billman, Leon B. Briner, frank E. Brunner, John R. Bucher, John E. Bupp, Cyrus G. Clouser, Duke P. Clouser, John W. Clouser, Joseph G. Darlington, Paul W. Darlington, Ray H. Davis, Charles G. DeLancey, Charles W. Foose, Paul N. Fox, Bruce E. Gantt, Lloyd W. Gantt, Edgar M. Garber, J. Herman Hoffman, John W. Johnston, Frank E. Kell, George R. Kell, Henry A. Kell, B. Frank Keller, Arden B. Kepner, Robert T. Logan, John A. Magee, Edward M. Masterson, Benjamin McPherson, David Miller, James Miller, Vernon Myers, Ernest H. Nickel, McClure B. Ramsay, Benjamin H. Rodemaker, W. Warren Seibert, Horace Sheaffer, James M. Shearer, G. Louis Shearer, J. Roy Smith, Samuel W. Stambaugh, Maurice I. Stein, Paul G. Swartz, Edward m. Sweger, Hobart M. Sweger, Henry R. Thebes, Oscar C. Wallace, John F. Zeigler, and Margaret M. Millington. Their service was remembered with the words, "The valiant prefer death to dishonor."

Bloomfield, Pennsylvania · United States