East Brookfield honored the men and women of the community who served the nation in war with a monument erected in 1949, bearing the inscription "The Memory of a Great Name and the Inheritance of a Great Example the Legacy of Heroes" and naming those from East Brookfield who served in World War I, 1917–1918: Barnard, Wilrose N.; Battey, Hiram F.; Benson, Frederick J.; Boucher, Alfred; Boucher, John H.; Coran, Arthur; Daley, Charles B.; Daley, Dennis J.; Fletcher, Charles E.; Gaudette, Alphonse Jr.; Gaudette Frank E.; Giguere, Charles; Guertin, Henry A.; Guertin, Louis J.; Holwitz, Peter; Horne, Charles D.; LeDoux, Archie; LeDoux, Eusebe; Lessard, Edmund J.; Lessard, Frank J.; Maccia, Theodore A.; Manning, Arthur J.; Manning, Leo J.; Manning, Wilfred J.; McCarthy, Laurence F.; Mele, Orozio D.; Normandin, Walter O.; Odell, Walter A.; Raquer, Frank; Secor, Alfred C.; Secor, George J.; Sleeper, Joseph C.; Tumey, Charles H.; Valley, Napoleon; Valley, Octave J.; Valley, Philip; Westling, Frank E.; Young, Howard H.; Young, Richard J.