Honor Roll: Town of Manchester, Connecticut, Munro Park

The Town of Manchester in Hartford County, Connecticut, was part of the City of Hartford and then East Hartford until 1823. The Cheney family started what would become the world's largest silk mill in 1838 and the E. E. Hillard Woolen Mills, founded in 1780 by Aaron Buckland, is the oldest woolen mill site in the United States.

Cheney Brothers Mills, South Manchester, 1920; courtesy of
Wikipedia

Munro Park includes several memorials but only the World War II memorial is an honor roll.

Memorials at Munro Park, Manchester, Connecticut;
personal collection

Manchester World War II Honor Roll, Munro Park;
personal collection

World War II

PVC Walter J. Adams
LT William Anderson
PFC William T Anderson
PVT Ernest E. Bartley
S 1/C Olin F. Beebe
PFC Arthur L. Benoit
PVT Henry J. Bensche
GM 3/C Ernest A. Berggren
SGT Francis W. Blow
PVT Paul D. Botticello
PVT Walter F. Brandt
PFC John J. Brennan
AV RA M 2/C George E. Briggs
PFC Everett E. Brown
PFC Errol Burton
A/S Albert J. Busky
PFC William Chamberlain
SGT Donald Chapman
SSGT James F. Civiello
PFC Robert Claughsey
SGT Frederick Collings, Jr.
A/S Thomas C. Collins
AM M 1/C Donald L. Cross
PVT Nelson E. Darrow
LT Arthur B. Davis
ENSIGN Vincent E. Diana
PFC John Dirgo, Jr.
CPL Joseph A. Doherty
F/O George P. Eggleston
PFC Dillio Falcetta
SGT Hugh Farrington
1st LT Joseph R. Fizgerald
PVT Oscar Geanette
2nd LT Herbert R. Gilman
CPL Thomas Gleason
PVT Peter F Gochee
SGT Eric H. Gothberg
PVT Edward J. Gozdz
SSGT William E. Groot
CPL Alexander Gurski
2nd LT Michael Haberern
PVT John M. Haggart, Jr.
PVT Robert J. Hall
LT William C. Hall
SGT Robert W. H. Hamilton
LT Edward F. Hraburda
PVT Alton Hare
AM 2/C Alvin P. Harrow
PVT William Henry
F 1/C Charles W. Heritage
SSGT Robert Herrick
SSGT Kenyon G. Hills
PVT David R. Jack
PFC Edward C. Jaglinski
LT Arthur H. Keeney, Jr.
PFC Lester O. Keeney
SGT Donald King
PVT Francis J. Kirka
SGT Michael Kokoch
PVT Stanley Kulpinski
PVT Raymond G. LaGace
LT Arthur Lawrence
LT Richard LeBarron
PFC Edmund F. Leber, Jr.
PFC John R. Lee
SSGT Joseph Lennon, Jr.
PFC Walter B. Liss
LT Robert W. Lucey
A/S Donald Madden
MM 2/C Bruno C. Mankus
PVT Frank J. Mansfield
A/S Arthur E. Miller
PFC Fred H. Miller, Jr.
LT William M. Miller
PVT John J. Mitchell
PVT Gregory Monaco
LT John C. Moriarty
PFC Norman A. Mosher
SGT Clifford M. McKinney
SSGT Wesley F. McMullen
SGT Rudolph W. Nelson, Jr.
PVT Alfred Newall
PFC John I. Nowak
PVT Edward J. Olcavage
PVT Thomas J. Patricca
SGT John Perotti
PFC Albin J. Peschik
SGT Edward S. Plocharczyk
GM 1/C Mario Quey
PFC William Roberts
PFCConell C. Rushworth
PVT Joseph Sebula
SSGT Pat Serratore
PFC Victor Skoneski
PFC Timothy S. Smythe
SGT Ernest A. Squatrito
PFC Peter W. Stamler
GM 1/C Joseph A. Staum
1st LT Jesse J. Stevens
PFC W. Stark Taylor
LT Gordon E. Thrall
PVT Rocco C. Toce
SGT Douglas J. Turkington
CAPT Gordon T. Wells
AV CADET Orville H. Whitney
1st LT John G. Wilson
1st LT John E. Winzler
SC 3C Lewis H. Wolger
PFC Angelo Zito

Manchester Korean Conflict Honor Roll, Munro Park;
personal collection

Korean Conflict

Korean Conflict 1950-1953

Ernest W. Steinberg
Howard C. Flavell, Jr.
William Bolduc
Howard M. Higley

Not Forgotten

This post was written as a contribution to the Honor Roll Project, which was created by Heather Wilkinson Rojo, author of Nutfield Genealogy.