their country's call, served in the Army, in the Navy, and in various Civil capacities in France and in this Country. In addition very many others of the parish who remained at home rendered effective aid, working with Springfield's different organizations making and sending abroad articles for the soldiers that the government did not supply or in various ways adding to the comfort of the men in the camps in this country or in their journeys to the embarkation ports.
After the war the Church gave to each of those on its honor roll an engraved certificate of service signed by the rector and the senior warden, and in 1923 Colonel Blunt presented a handsome bronze tablet in honor of all members of the parish who had answered their Country's call in the World War. This tablet is thirty-one inches high by thirty-eight inches wide, is of statuary bronze and is placed on the inside west wall of the Church, to the north of the main entrance where it is in plain view of all as they leave the building. It bears the following inscription:
For God And Country
This tablet is erected
in honor of
the members of this parish
who answered their Country's Call
in the World War
1917 - 1919
and
In Memory Of
the following men who died
that liberty might live
This tablet is erected
in honor of
the members of this parish
who answered their Country's Call
in the World War
1917 - 1919
and
In Memory Of
the following men who died
that liberty might live
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Hubert Cooper Stuart Arthur Craig Donald Earl Dunbar |
Walter Handley Cyril A. Hitchcock John Henry Norton |
In his letter presenting the tablet Colonel Blunt gave the following brief statement of the services of these six men.
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