During 1917–1918, Freetown recorded an honor roll of local people connected with wartime service, including Chester D. Heath, Preston R. Mawhinney, James F. Allen, John F. Allen, Norman Allen, James C. Archer, Karl J. Ashley, Charles H. Babbitt, Herbert W. Babbitt, William H. Borden, Robert Bradley Jr., Clinton Braley, Eli Braley, Leander G. Chase, Ephraim Collins, John W. Conroy, Harry A. Cornell, George T. Cudworth, John P. Curtin, Daniel E. Daley, Francis P. Daley, Bertha M. Davis, Hollis H. Davis, Richard W. Davis, John Dewsnap, Benjamin R. Evans, Earl V. Evans, William B. Evans, John P. Garrity, Arthur H. Griffith, Ernest C. Grinnell, George E. Gurney, Nelson W. Gurney, Charles F. Handy, Elmer B. Holloway, Michael Jose, Charles H.R. Kasmire, Robert D. Kasmire, John T. Mccrohan, James Mchale, Pierrepont Nichols, Theophilus Nunes, Alfred Parr, Arthur Paul, Gardner W. Perry, Louis B. Perry, Raymond L. Perry, John P. Powers, William Reagan, John Reposa, Adelbert A. Reynolds, Henry Richard, Harold L. Rose, Gilbert L. Rounsevell, John Rushton, Antone M. Silvia, William T. Staples, William H. Sullivan, Thomas E. Walker, Elbert H. Welch, Charles I. Westgate, and Perley L. Wotton; Chester D. Heath and Preston R. Mawhinney died in service.