Commemoration Veterans Day at Northfield Common 11 November 2024
Sponsored by Sorrell-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 six 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 and is 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. COL Steve Roberts, PhD will be the featured speaker. He is the Professor of Military Science and Commanding Officer for the U.S. Army ROTC Pioneer Battalion at Norwich University. He is a Cyberwarfare Officer, commissioned in 1998, after completing Officer Candidate School. He has served over 34 years in numerous positions of increasing responsibility while also deploying in support of overseas operations across the globe.

Please join us on 11 November 2024, 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 light refreshments will be served after the ceremony.

Michael Krause, Ph.D • Colonel, United States Army Retired, Adjutant, The American Legion Post 63

Event Info

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