100 Year Commemoration of Armistice Day, at Northfield Commons, Sunday 11 November 2018 at 1000.

Come and join this important 100 Year Commemoration.

One hundred years ago the American Expeditionary Force (AEF) launched an attack at Meuse-Argonne that broke the back of the German Army and led to the Armistice signed at Compiegne, France, 11 November 1918. Thereupon the guns fell silent. So ended the "War to end all Wars."

You should know that 216 Northfield citizens served in the First World War. Further, 741 Norwich citizen soldiers served.
Captain Philip V. Sherman, Norwich University graduate 1907 was the first Vermont casualty. He was aboard the troop ship Tuscania when it was sunk by the Germans. Captain Sherman was married to Marie Beryl Hildreth of Northfield.

The American Legion, Post # 63 is named after Wilmer N Sorell and Nelson G. Maynard, who were killed in the War. Both were Northfield citizens.

We have invited Governor Scott; Major General Schneider, President, Norwich University; General Sullivan, United States Army, Retired, former Army Chief of Staff; Major General Cray, Vermont Adjutant General; and other distinguished guests.

Please join our Veterans, Town Leaders and Norwich University for this poignant Commemoration.

Save the date. Tell others!

Michael D. Krause, Ph.D, Norwich 1964
Colonel, United States Army Retired
American Legion Historian