World War II Veterans

Below is an informal list of the many World War II Veterans (those who served in any capacity) from the Saranac Lake area. Note the separate list of veterans from the town of Brighton, below.

This page is under construction. It should be fairly complete for veterans who were killed or wounded, but others are being added as they are discovered. Please add any names of veterans that are missing— using the Comments box at the end is the easiest way.

Note: Names underlined with a dashed line like this have not had articles written about them. If you have information to contribute, you can click on the link and select "Create as a person," then fill in the information.

• Donald F. Abare (wounded)
  

• Ira R. Ames
  

• Percy A. Arnold (wounded)
  

• Clarence H. Baker
  

• Evet Baker
  

• Leonard Baker (killed)
  

• Henry Ives Baldwin
  

• Arthur L. Bartlett
  

• George Bedore
  

• J. Ray Bell, Jr.
  

• Richard P. Bellaire
  

• Allen G. Bennett (killed)
  

• Harold F. Bentz, Jr.
  

• Willard Benware
  

• Clarence A. Berry (wounded)
  

• Carl J. Bevilacqua
  

• Lionel Bibeau
  

• Jim Bickford
  

• Dr. Harold F. Birk
  

• Dr. Ted Blackmar
  

• Carl A. Blumenthal (killed)
  

• Bob Bogie
  

• Edwin J. Booth (killed)
  

• Bernard T. Bordeau (wounded)
  

• Oliver J. Boula (wounded)
  

• Lawrence J. Bray (wounded)
  

• Helen Brescia
  

• Alvin W. Brown (wounded)
  

• Bernard Brown
  

• Raymond W. Burleigh
  

• George V. Callaghan (wounded)
  

• Grant Cane
  

• Thomas B. Cantwell
  

• William Cantwell (wounded)
  

• Joseph M. Carey (wounded)
  

• George Henry Carley, Jr.
  

• Robert Carr (wounded)
  

• Francis Casier
  

• Raymond W. Cassavaugh (wounded)
  

• Art Charland
  

• Ralph J. Cheeseman
  

• Leon L. Chesbrough (wounded)
  

• Manley 'John' M. Corson Jr.
  

• Mike D'Ambrisi
  

• Harry H. Danforth
  

• Janet Parker Decker
  

• Maitland DeSormo
  

• John G. Deming (killed)
  

• William G. Distin, Jr.
  

• Willard Dora (killed)
  

• George S. Doty
  

• Raymond E. Doty (wounded)
  

• Kenneth Drumm (killed)
  

• Joe Drutz
  

• Mitchel Dukett (wounded)
  

• James E. Duprea, Jr. (killed)
  

• Donald V. Dupree (wounded)
  

• Paul Dupree
  

• Robert E. Dupree
  

• Raymond Dupree
  

• William Dupree
  

• Lawrence Duprey
  

• John J. Duquette
  

• Irving Edelberg (wounded)
  

• Howard Ellithorpe
  

• Albert I. Evans, Jr.
  

• John Flynn (killed)
  

• Chester Fobare
  

• Edwin Fobare
  

• Andrew Fortune, Sr.
  

• Mose H. Foster (wounded)
  

• Francis N. Fox (killed)
  

• Harold Fuller (killed)
  

• Donn Garwood
  

• Arthur P. Gates (wounded)
  

• Francis E. Gauthier
  

• Homer Gauthier (wounded)
  

• Wally Gay
  

• Eugene Gladd
  

• Robert Gladd (wounded)
  

• Robert Goetz (killed)
  

• Fred Gorrow (wounded)
  

• Fred Guyette (killed)
  

• Elbert Smith Hale (killed)
  

• Frank Hall
  

• Ray Hall (wounded)
  

• Ronald J. Harrigan
  

• William L. Harvey, Jr.
  

• Boyd Hayes
  

• S. Curtis Hayes
  

• Roger Heath (wounded)
  

• Albert G. Homburger
  

• Philmore J. Hyde
  

• Hugh L. Kelly (killed)
  

• Ralph Clarence Kelly
  

• Charles Keough
  

• Earl P. Kinville
  

• James Lamy
  

• Clarence Lamere (wounded)
  

• James E. LaPan (wounded)
  

• Oliver LaRose (killed)
  

• Leo Lashway
  

• Albert James Latour (killed)
  

• Tuffield A. Latour
  

• John Eugene Lester (killed)
  

• Raymond Frederick Lester
  

• Frank Lezak (wounded)
  

• Clayton Lewis (killed)
  

• Leon Stanley Liscomb (missing)
  

• Dr. Esmond R. Long
  

• Winchester H. MacDowell
  

• James A. Matthews (wounded)
  

• Raymond B. McCarthy (wounded)
  

• Robert McClure (wounded)
  

• Robert Wells McCrum (killed)
  

• Edward McGrath (killed)
  

• Larry McKillip
  

• Thomas P. Meehan (wounded)
  

• John T. Merritt
  

• Hubert E. Miller (wounded)
  

• Gordon Miner (wounded)
  

• Alfred A. Moody
  

• Howard P. Moody (wounded)
  

• John S. Moody
  

• Mace Moody
  

• Maurice Moody (wounded)
  

• Forrest Morgan
  

• Ralph Morrow
  

• Carlton Morrow (killed)
  

• Kenneth L. Morrow (killed)
  

• Vernon J. Morrow (wounded)
  

• Edward Mulflur
  

• Richard B. Mullen
  

• Bernard W. Mullen
  

• Helen D. Mullen
  

• Francis Mullin
  

• John Mullin
  

• Joseph Munn
  

• Dr. John Murphy
  

• Jeff Newbold
  

• William B. North, Jr. (killed)
  

• Edwin R. Noyes (killed)
  

• Nathaniel Oddy (wounded)
  

• Edward N. Packard, Jr.
  

• Charles William Pandolph, Sr.
  

• Thomas L. Pandolph
  

• Francis Pasho
  

• George E. Paye
  

• John Peightal
  

• Carl H. Peters (wounded)
  

• Clarence Petty
  

• Gordon Pickreign (wounded)
  

• Hayward Plumadore (wounded)
  

• Jack Porter (killed)
  

• Oliver Queior, Jr.
  

• V. F. Rivers (wounded)
  

• William B. Reardon (killed)
  

• Lawrence Roberts (killed)
  

• Robert Rondeau (wounded)
  

• William Root, Jr.
  

• Joseph Rostan, Jr. (wounded)
  

• Raymond V. Rushia (wounded)
  

• Cecil Rushlow (wounded)
  

• Lilian Ryan, USO
  

• Guy E. Salls (wounded)
  

• Leon H. Sarant (killed)
  

• William G. Scheefer, Jr.
  

• Ingleton Schenck, Jr. (wounded)
  

• Raymond C. Scollin (wounded)
  

• Roger Seney (wounded)
  

• Dr. Leonard J. Seidenstein
  

• Herb Shatraw
  

• James E. Shaw
  

• Cyrus E. Shelhamer (wounded)
  

• Alvin Skeels
  

• Myron J. Skeels
  

• Gilbert Slater (killed)
  

• William Robert Slater (killed)
  

• Dana C. Smith (wounded)
  

• Aldo L. Sorcinelli (killed)
  

• Francis Spencer (wounded)
  

• Wilfred K. Stacey (wounded)
  

• Francis L. Stearns
  

• Bob Stringer
  

• Walter Stringham (killed)
  

• Daniel Sullivan (killed)
  

• Archie J. Sweeney (killed)
  

• Richard A. Sweet (killed)
  

• Richard Swinyer (wounded)
  

• William Tanzini, Sr.
  

• Alexis Thompson
  

• Raymond Traynor (killed)
  

• Francis B. Trudeau
  

• Pascal Linwood Urgo, Jr. (missing)
  

• Archie H. VanNortwick (wounded)
  

• Gordon Van Nortwick
  

• Alfred Nelson Vaughn, Jr. (killed)
  

• John Walsh
  

• Francis Anthony Walter
  

• Daniel Ward (wounded)
  

• Thomas P. Ward
  

• George Watkins
  

• Lew Wheat
  

• Leo R. Whitman (killed)
  

• Harold Wilkins
  

• Paul Willette (wounded)
  

• Robert Willette (wounded)
  

• Irving Williams (wounded)
  

• Millard Willis (killed)
  

• James J. Winch
  

• Dr. Warriner Woodruff
  

• Lawrence Woods (killed)
  

• James Wallace Yattagan (killed)

Source:

• Adirondack Daily Enterprise, May 29, 1945 (reprinted, August 1994)
  

Town of Brighton - Service Roll of Honor — World War II

* - Died in service

From The Brighton Story

See also

• World War I Veterans
  

• Norwegian Sailors
  

• World War II Killed, Wounded and Missing in Action
  

Adirondack Daily Enterprise, March 12, 1948

Suggests Making S.L. Model Village As Vet Memorial

The making of Saranac Lake into a model village, on the order of Williamsburg, Va. ,as a living memorial to veterans of World War II was advanced by Dr. Arthur Vorwald at a recent meeting of the board of directors of the Saranac Lake Chamber of Commerce.

Dr. Vorwald, pointing out that the New York state legislature is considering a memorial in some form to the veterans of this recent war, encouraged the Chamber to bring its suggestion before the body before another had been acted upon.

Pointing out that the Whiteface Memorial Highway, World War I memorial of the State, is not a living thing, the Navy veteran urged that a model village in the Adirondacks in honor of World War II veterans would be "a living memorial in the interests of peace."

That a project of this sort, supported by the State, would beautify the village is undeniable, he asserted. In addition, he gave three major appeals for a memorial of this type:

1. It would be a living memorial to the World War II veterans.

2. The memorial would be located in the center of the playground area of New York state, an area which the State is keenly interested in developing.

3. Being a health community, the veterans could come to improve their health as well as play.

Dr. Vorwald also pointed out that the suggestion, if accepted by the legislature, would place the second war's memorial near that of the first, so that they might compliment each other.

Williamsburg, located in Virginia was restored to its original beauty during the late 30's by the private resources of the Rockefellers. It has since become a model village and an outstanding community in the drawing of tourist trade.

Dr. Vorwald, now director of research of Trudeau Foundation, was Instrumental in the organization of the Saranac Lake Study and Craft Guild and during the recent war served with the U. S. Navy as a captain, chief of the medical sciences branch, Office of Naval Research.

Comments:

2012-05-27 21:39:18   Ronald J Harrigan —108.44.2.207

2012-05-27 21:41:53   Joseph Munn —74.71.131.85

2012-05-27 22:58:10   John Mullin (Married to Dorothy J. Witherbee Mullin, father of Kathryn Mullin Best, Elizabeth Mullin Lamy, Barbara Mullin Dodds and Michael Mullin) —69.146.58.138

2012-05-28 07:48:39   Please check with the Town of Franklin, Vermontville, NY. They have a list of WWII servicemen on their town hall wall. —74.71.142.234

• Great, thanks, we'll do that. — MWanner
  

2012-05-28 19:16:21   James John Winch WW11 served in the Pacific Theater, was at Pearl Harbor when it was bombed. —71.164.77.94

2012-05-30 13:18:26   Also add Francis Mullin, brother of John Mullin

—67.223.168.226

2012-05-31 09:41:55   Kenneth L Morrow was killed in my hometown and soon will be added to a memorial in the Netherlands. Do you have information about him please contact me at nehkien@xs4all.nl thanks in advance —193.173.102.178

2012-06-01 20:56:14   Francis E Gauthier (Brother of Homer, who is listed) —184.153.22.215

• Done. Thanks — MWanner
  

2012-08-06 22:53:52   John Patrick Tolbert served ithroughout the Pacific Theater in the First Cavalry Division. —24.92.56.124

2012-08-18 07:39:33   Raymond Frederick Lester - US Army, WW2 and US Navy, Korea Born: 1924 Died: 2000

• Thanks! MWanner