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This was a welcome home parade for the men who had served in WWI. The men are marching up Summer Street in front of the Riverside Cooperative building with the library entrance decorated. The windows on the upper floor are the Cooperative Hall.

Picture taken at Memorial Park on November 11, 1975.

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Joseph Dineen
William Baron
James Whalen
William Sweeney
Ralph Jamieson

An agenda for a celebration honoring World War I returning soldiers and sailors from St. Bridget's Parish, Wednesday, April 23, 1919.

Copies of this book were given by American Woolen Company to their employees who were returning service men, to allow them to record aspects of their service.

This book belonged to Roy Charles Gray, born on October 22, 1899, in Parrsboro, Nova…

Three folders that contain WWI information relative to Maynard including: Notes by Ralph Sheridan for the History of Maynard Book, lists of Maynard residents who served in the war, newspaper clippings, Ralph Sheridan's musings about a radio…

On Sunday July 27, 1917 the entire Sixth Regiment, Massachusetts Volunteer Militia was marching through Maynard on the way to Fort Devens, Ayer. Two months later they were on the way to France as the 26th or Yankee Division. About 40 Maynard…

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First Group:
Sgt. Charles E. Dyson, Co 3 FMS; Edward Ledgard (2)

Second Group:
Top - Lt. Ralph C. Shattuck, Engineer's Corp; Pt. Albert N. Hodgess, 73 CAC
Bottom - Pt. Roy C. Nelson, 104th Infantry; Corp. Walter R.…

Two of the floats in the parade to welcome home the men and women of the Armed Forces after World War I. The top photo is the float of the Rebekah Lodge. The float behind the automobile in the bottom photo is from the Middlesex Laundry.

The photo…

Top photo, left
Front, l to r: Percy Taylor, Jack Higgins, Don Connors, John Gibbons
Back, l to r: James Cronin, Pat Kane, Ray Smith, Eden Tobin

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Hartwell Flood, Guyer Fowler, __?

Picture taken at a military hospital in France. They had joined up with a group from Harvard College and were attached to the Ambulance Corp during the war.

Guyer Fowler was a grandson of Henry Fowler,…

Load of Cloth from Assabet Mills at the Express Office on Main Street, 1916. From Left to Right Arthur Jordan, Richard Parmenter at rear of truck, Joe Fitzpatrick, Arley Lawrence at side, William Nelson, driver.

An unopened metal box that presumably contains first aid supplies.

Located behind 32 Thompson Street the fields are now the parking lot of the commercial building.

A certificate was awarded to Pearl McAuslin of Maynard for donating one dollar to the United War Work Campaign for WWI, 1918.

Recognition of Joshua Edwards by Gov. Samuel McCall of service during WWI .

A silk handkerchief, a souvenir of France, with 1919 stitched upon it. It was donated by Sgt. William Baron who served in France during WW I.

The company went to Washington to march in the inauguration parade of Pres. Woodrow Wilson. Congressman John Jacob Rogers of Lowell in center of picture. Maynard men with the company-Edward Ledgard, John J.Gallagher, William Coulter and Ernest…

World War I veterans led by Corporal Harold V. Sheridan participating in the Town's 50th Anniversary Parade.
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