Commemoration Veterans' Day at Northfield Common 11 November 2022
Sponsored by Sorell-Maynard American Legion, Post #63
World War One Armistice was signed at Compiegne, France 1111 hours on 11 November 1918.
We invite you to a remembrance commemoration of that event one hundred and four years later.
Two Hundred sixteen Northfield Citizens served during the First World War. One of the first Vermont soldier's killed was Captain Phillip Sherman, a Norwich University graduate class of 1907. He was aboard the troop ship Tuscania when it was sunk by the Germans. Captain Sherman was married to Marie Beryl Hildreth of Northfield.
Private Wilmer Sorrell enlisted in Company F, 1st Vermont Infantry, Northfield, Vermont. He died of wounds in Gorieux, France and returned to the United States buried at Arlington Cemetery.
We invite you to honor all Veterans who have served and are serving today.
Today we invite you to honor the Families of our Veterans.
Colonel Gregory Newsom, United States Army will be our featured Speaker.
Please join us on 11 November 2022, at 1100, at Northfield Commons, in front of the Civil War Obelisk to join in a short ceremony of remembrance to honor our Veterans.
Free Lunch/Refreshments will be served after the ceremony.
Michael Krause, COL, United States Army, Retired
American Legion, Post #63 Adjutant
802-485-8261
mdetlefk@aol.com