From 1917 to 1918, the residents of the Town of Richland who served in the World War included Earl D. Ames, Ashton W. Avery, Charles A. Balcon, Rolon C. Balcon, James B. Barnard, W. Taylor Barr, Lawrence M. Bateman, Edward H. Bennett, John S. Bentley, Albert H. Betts, Henry F. Billhardt, Clifford O. Bonney, Claude H. Bortel, Dayton Boutell, Clair C. Brigham, Archibald Brown, John M. Brown, W. Stanley Brown, Charles M. Bumpus, Francis H. Bumpus, Graham M. Burch, Leslie W. Burr, H. Clayton Butterworth, Paul Eugene Carl, Earl J. Caufield, Frank N. Chamberlain, Floyd A. Chase, F. Clayton Clark, Herbert S. Clark, Hermon E. Clemons, Ray D. Clyde, Burton B. Coffin, Gordon W. Coleman, Bernard Collins, Robert A. Collins, Earl J. Coon, Harold W. Coon, Charles J. Daly, John M. Daly, William C. Daly, Earl J. Damon, Jay E. Darling, J. Brock Davis, James A. Deshane, Ernest H. Dillenbeck, John B. Dolan, Alva G. Dunbar, Robert R. Edwards, Ross J. Esty, James M. Farmer, Walter H. Farnham, Frank H. Ferris, Harold E. Finster, Earl V. Flagg, Arnold H. Fox, Harold L. Franklin, Roy W. Galbraith, Clarence J. Gorman, William T. Gorman, Fernando M. Green, William P. Green, Stewart A. Greenwood, Walter C. Griffin, Frederick A. Hallenbeck, Viggo Hansen, James P. Hayes, Frank L. Hilliker, Frank D. Hogan, Francis W. Hohman, Clinton H. Horton, D. Harry Howard, William S. Howlett, Don K. Hutchens, Joseph G. Hutchins, Raymond Ivens, Albert J. Johnson, Perl Jones, Ralph P. Killam, Tracy N. Killam, Everett W. Lacelle, Harold Lacelle, Frank N. Lane, Francis J. Lawler, Thomas W. Lawler, Byron R. Lester, Leon D. Lilley, Stephen L. Lindsey, Harold S. Littler, Harold J. Loomis, Ralph L. Lowry, Jay S. Lybolt, Jack H. McLean, Robert L. McNitt, Fred C. Mahaffy, Yates Mahaffy, Clark E. Manwaring, Nathan C. Manwaring, Leon M. Manwaring, Raymond W. March, Warren F. March, Clarence Martin, John C. Maxwell, Jay J. More, Ray H. Muir, Raymond J. Murray, Claude J. Oderkirk, Edison Oderkirk, Avery C. Orton, Willis S. Peck, Harold H. Pennock, William McK. Petrie, Charles E. Phelps, Newton W. Philbrick, Harold G. Phillips, Franklin Pierce, James A. Pirnie, Miles D. Pirnie, Nelson R. Pirnie, Albert O. Potter, John E. Rider, Fred L. Ritter, Fay H. Salisbury, Floyd S. Salisbury, Burt Sanderson, Harry J. Sanderson, Leon C. Saunders, Harold K. Scott, John A. Scott, Daniel D. Shattuck, Gordon C. Shaver, Carl B. Shaw, Harold D. Shepard, George N. Soderlund, Glen R. Soule, Leigh Soule, James G. Stark, Gordon E. Stewart, Leland T. Stewart, Leon W. Stewart, Robert Stewart, Claude Taplin, Wyon H. Taplin, Glen Thorpe, Lawrence R. Trumbull, Miss Goldia E. Tryon, Harold W. Tryon, Glenn E. Upton, Earl J. Van Hoosen, Frank Voorhis, Jr., William Walker, Harold H. White, Van R. Waterbury, Clinton F. West, Floyd L. Wilcox, Manford G. Williams, Wilford T. Woodruff, Herman H. Woolley, and Harold B. Zufelt; H. Clayton Butterworth, Byron R. Lester, Earl J. Van Hoosen, and Herman H. Woolley died in service, and the honor was presented by their fellow townsman W. J. Peach.