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General Category => Hackensack History => Topic started by: Editor on December 09, 2005, 03:23:56 PM

Title: 1919 Soldiers' Welcome Home
Post by: Editor on December 09, 2005, 03:23:56 PM
A resident contributed this to the archive.  Note the parade route and the "Wm M. Johnson" in the "Reviewing Party",- no doubt Sen. Johnson for whom the Library is named.  If anyone has more information on this, please follow up with a post.

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For the Search Engines:

Hackensack, July 4th, 1919
Welcome Home Soldiers and Sailors

REVIEWING PARTY
Colonel Oliver S. Eskridge, U. S. A., representing Major General David S. Shanks, Port of Embarkation, Hoboken, N. J.

Major Walter H. Mcllroy, representing Red Cross, Base Hospital,' Camp Merritt, N.J.

Captain M. G. Olsen, representing Red Cross, Base Hospital, Camp Merritt, N.J.

Private Jean Leon Richy, 21st Company, 33rd Infantry, French Army.

Mayor Milton Demarest
Commissioner at Large R. K. Meneely
Commissioner Thomas L. Peck
Commissioner Herbert B. Engle
Commissioner R. K. Storm
Commissioner T. W. Spencer
Commissioner Martin Toolen
Mrs. VValter H. Mcllroy and guests
Mrs C. S. Conklin
Cortlandt Linkroum
Rev. A. Von Schlieder, D. D.
Evan G. Runner
James Norton
J. W. Binder
Wm. M. Johnson

Frank W. Smith, Frederick B. Van Vorst, Charles W. Terhune, V. E. Foster, M. R. Brinkman, Joseph Kinzley, Jr.,  Hugh Otis, George Van Buskirk, Paul H. Cromelin, E. K. Bird, Dean J. J. Cunneely, James M. Smith, C. E. Blackford, Jr.,  Wm. L. Whyte, D.G. Jeffers

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Title: Re: 1919 Soldiers' Welcome Home
Post by: GeorgeHedges on April 09, 2018, 05:40:26 PM
I may have pictures of this parade.  My great uncle 1st Sgt George Hedges had left a photo album during the Mexican Border in 1916, WW1 in France and unknown pictures of soldiers parading.
Title: Re: 1919 Soldiers' Welcome Home
Post by: Editor on April 09, 2018, 06:00:23 PM
Would love to see those!
Title: Re: 1919 Soldiers' Welcome Home
Post by: GeorgeHedges on April 14, 2018, 05:05:24 PM


I will post them soon.  Are you familiar with the Hackensack High School Veterans Website?  I share a lot of my research with them and many of my pictures are on their site under WW1
Title: Re: 1919 Soldiers' Welcome Home
Post by: Editor on April 14, 2018, 05:20:32 PM
Yes I am. It's a great site.

https://www.hackensackschools.org/Page/9002
Title: Re: 1919 Soldiers' Welcome Home
Post by: GeorgeHedges on April 18, 2018, 09:35:46 PM
These photos are from my great uncle George Hedges of a parade but did not identify the location.  For years I've been trying to figure out where they  were taken and although I suspected Hackensack, I couldn't find anything until I read this post.
Title: Re: 1919 Soldiers' Welcome Home
Post by: GeorgeHedges on April 20, 2018, 03:21:19 PM
Original comparative placard from June 29,1919 honoring Hackensack soldiers who gave their lives during the Great War.  From the photo album of 1st Sgt. George Hedges / 114th Infantry from WW1.
Title: Re: 1919 Soldiers' Welcome Home
Post by: Editor on April 20, 2018, 03:32:59 PM
Wow. Love this.

Title: Re: 1919 Soldiers' Welcome Home
Post by: Skipx219 on April 21, 2018, 07:52:09 AM
I can't read all the names...but I wonder if some of the names match those on the memorial tree planting in Fochini Park ??
Title: Re: 1919 Soldiers' Welcome Home
Post by: Editor on April 21, 2018, 09:23:18 AM
Click on the image above to make it a little bigger.

Just glancing, I noticed many names match. Maybe all of them.

WWI Memorial at Foschini:

http://www.hackensacknow.org/index.php/topic,527.msg1295.html#msg1295