World War I Veterans
The Trafford World War I memorial has been officially designated as a WWI Centennial Memorial by the United States World War One Centennial Commission and the Pritzker Military Museum & Library as part of the 100 Cities/100 Memorials grant program.
The program was created to help draw attention to WWI memorials across the United States and enable all of America to take part in the WWI Centennial Commemoration.
Story about remembering Nicola Elmo. The last name added to the WW1 Memorial in Trafford.
HONOR ROLL
1917 - 1918
IN MEMORY OF THE BOYS FROM THIS COMMUNITY WHO ANSWERED THEIR COUNTRY'S CALL
DOMINICO AVESSA RALPH BAHEL GUISEPPE BARNABO LLARIO BIESUZ MILICK BLADGARK PRINCE ALBERT BLAND BERNARD BURTNER FREDRICO CAPUTO FRANCIS COFFIN LEE H. COLE JAMES COOK ELMER CORRELL JOSEPH CYNKAR RAYMOND DETRICK WM. H. DUNGEE |
FRANK FIGLUIZZIO FRANK GLENDENNING CHAS. D. HAMILTON FRED HEGLAND GLENN HENDERSON ELTON H. HICKMAN HARRY C. HICKMAN SOLOMON HIRSH WALTER HOLSINGER GEO. R. HUFF GEORGE JEWELL JOHN JULIAN JOSEPH KASPERKOVICZ LAZO KISHISH RAYMOND LICINA ABRANIO LINRA ANTONIO LUCA GUISEPPE LUCA WALTER T. MACEVOY WM. MACLACHLAN PARVEL MAGNSOK DOMENICO MASTRIANNA PATER A. MCCORMICK PAUL MCCUNE ROBERT MCCUTCHEON
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ALEX MCVICKER PASQUALE MENDICINO NICOLA MILNOJECK ROY MUMMA FRANK J. MURRAY MATTHEW NEWMAN JOHN ONDISH PAUL ONDISH TEDOR OPARIC JAMES PAINTER STEFANICK PASQUIDAS HARRY PRINGLE EARL REICHARD GUISEPPE ROMANO MARIS SEBASTIANO JOHN SOLES ROBERT STOUFFER LOUIS STRASSER LEWIS STRUSTI DAN TRAFICAN SAVERIO VACCARO NICOLA VACCIHANO LINDEN VAN ORMER ROSOIS VECHIO ROSARIO VENKIS MIKE VERGLES RAFFAEL VISCIONE JACK WINWOOD IVAN MLINARIC
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"THAT LIBERTY JUSTICE AND EQUITY MIGHT NOT PERISH."
DEDICATED NOV 11, 1919
The book Good War, Great Men has been endorsed by the United States World War One Centennial Commission as a project that honors the service and sacrifice of American servicemen and women in World War I. Good War, Great men, written by Andrew J. Capets, chronicles the history of a machine gun battalion during the Great War. The book has several references to Trafford local history and regional Pennsylvania soldiers who fought in this war.