World War I Veterans

The names of area veterans of World War I, known at the time as the Great War, are inscribed on a plaque, donated by Mrs. C.M. Palmer located at the triangle between River Street and Church Street in Saranac Lake, New York. The plaque reads

Erected in honor

of these men and women of

Saranac Lake and Vicinity

who served their country in the

1917 - World War - 1918

See also:

• Town of Brighton World War I Veterans

• Veterans' Triangle

• World War One Exhibit

• Last Man's Club

• Veterans with Tuberculosis

• World War II Veterans

Those names followed by a * were killed in the war.

Note: Names underlined with a dashed line like this have not had articles written about them. If you have information to contribute, please use the comments box at the bottom of the page.

Copied, October 15, 1990, by Edna C. Finn, Historian, Town of Harrietstown, Saranac Lake, New York.

Service Roll of Honor — World War I — Town of Brighton{ <tbody>|-\n|Name||Entered||Age||Branch||Organ||Discharged|\n|-\n|Frank Blanchard||5/27/1918||25||Machine Gun||2nd Anti Air. M.G. Bat.||3/7/1919|\n|-\n|Harrison Benware||5/27/1918||29||Machine Gun||2nd Anti Air. M.G. Bat.||2/10/1919|\n|-\n|John H. Blanchard||7/21/1918||21||Infantry||Co. C, 348 Inf., 87th Div_||3/20/1919|\n|-\n|John V. Bryant||12/12/1917||31||Air Service||349 Aero Sq.||12/23/1918|\n|-\n|Percy D. Bryant||12/12/1917||23||Air Service||221 and 141 Aero Sqs.||7/9/1919|\n|-\n|Frederick W. Barnes|| ||25||Navy|| || |\n|-\n|George Halsey Brulliea||3/12/1918||23||Air Serviee||Texas||6/20/1919|\n|-\n|Arthur J. Downs||5/27/1918||26||Signal Corps||826 Field Sig. Bat.||7/3/1919|\n|-\n|Richard J. Longtin||5/27/1918||30||Infantry||Co. B, 2nd Pioneer Inf.||7/9/1919|\n|-\n|Clarence H. Lyman||1/3/1918||24||Quartermaster||Quartermaster at Large||7/3/1919|\n|-\n|Herbert F. Lyons|| ||26||Infantry||Supply Co., 2nd Pioneer Inf., 207th M.P. Co.||1/7/1919|\n|-\n|Charles I. Leavitt||5/27/1918||29||Med. Corps||37 Ambul. Corp., 6 San Tr.|| |\n|-\n|Gladys MacArthur||1/1918||30||Y.M.C.A.|| ||8/1919|\n|-\n|Randolph S. Martin||2/8/1919||22||Air Service||14th Balloon Co.||4/23/1919|\n|-\n|King S. McDermid||1/3/1918||23||Mortor Trans. Corp.||Co. A, 8 Reg. Div., Mort. Sup. Tra.||2/8/1919|\n|-\n|Archibald K. MacDonald||5/27/1918||32||Infantry|| ||6/10/1919|\n|-\n|Oscar J. Otis||7/13/1918||20||Motor Trans. Corp.||707 Motor Trans. Co.||6/B/1919|\n|-\n|Howard Otis||8/15/1918||21||Engineers||Co. H, 2nd Eng. Regt.||12/18/1918|\n|-\n|Roy A. Otis||5/10/1918||27||Machine Gun||Co. B, 146 Mach. Gun. Bat., 5th Div.||Died 12/2/1918 of wounds r'c'd in action|\n|-\n|Archie B. Ormsby||10/23/1918||23||Infantry|| ||12/27/1918|\n|-\n|Bernard L. Paye||8/30/1918||30||Army Serv. Corp.||2nd Co.||2/18/1919|\n|-\n|Thomas F. Riley||5/29/1917||24||Artillery||6th Reg., Coast Artillery Corps., Battery II||1/22/1919|\n|-\n|Edward H. Russell||8/26/1918||30||Machine Gun||57th Mach. Gun Bat., 19th Div.||2/1/1919|\n|-\n|Jerry E. Sawyer||8/7/1918||23||Artillery||Co. B, 12th Ammunition Tran.||2/7/1919|\n|-\n|Frank H. Sawyer||8/14/1917||23||Engineers||Co. A, 10th Eng. Forestry, AEF||2/13/1919|\n|-\n|Harry L. Strack||7/21/1918||21||Infantry||Co. I, 59th Pioneer Inf.||7/8/1919|\n|-\n|Christopher A. Smsey||10/5/1917||30||Air Service||149th Aero Pursuit Sq.||3/19/191b|\n|-\n|George S. Tebo||11/4/1909||28||Infantry||Headquarters Co., 50th Inf.||1/27/1919|\n|-\n|Lillian Oliver Ziegler||10/24/1918||30||Res. Nurse Corp.||U.S. Army Hosp. No. 41||4/13/1919|\n|-\n|Spencer J. Rork||9/9/1918||21||Artillery||Battery A, 13th Reg. F.A.R.D.||1/2/1919|\n|-\n|Harry A. Paye||10/5/1917||27||Infantry||1st Co., 151 Depot Brigade||11/3/1917|\n|-\n|Harold J. Newell||7/1/1918||22||Signal Corp.||Co. C, 5th Train. Bat.||1/23/1919|\n|-\n|Benjamin A. Muncil|| || || ||N.Y. Wagoner Army|| |\n|-\n|Madison Muncil|| || || ||Pvt., Co. A, 12 Ammo Tr. N. Y.|| |\n|-\n|Joseph J. Tucker|| || || ||Pvt., Co. A, 2nd Anti Aircraft|| |\n</tbody> |}

From 'The Brighton Story'

A plaque in the Church of the Ascension at Saranac Inn lists these three men as having given their lives in the Great War, 1917-1919:

John Giraud Agar Jr.*

Harold Kidder Bulkley*

John Van Wicheron Reynders Jr.*