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

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

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.*