Freedom is not free. Sometimes, it comes at a very high cost. 

HADDON TOWNSHIP, NJ
HOLLINGSHEAD CORP.
WWII WAR MEMORIAL
     
     All but forgotten today, the R.M. Hollingshead Corporation was one of Camden's largest employers, manufacturing automotive chemicals among other things. Despite a devastating fire in July of 1940, which raged for days, leaving 10 workers and 1 fireman dead, the company was very much a going concern at the end of World War II. 
     Over 500 Hollingshead workers had answered the nation's call in World War II. Twelve Hollingshead workers lost their lives while in the service. After the war, workers and management teamed up to raise money for an eight-foot monument which stood at the company's plant at 16th & Mickle Streets in East Camden.
     Many years later, the factory closed. The monument, which was not city property, was forgotten about, no one took responsibility for its upkeep. Although never vandalized, weed and trees grew around it, all but obscuring it. 
    

A HAPPY ENDING-
       In the spring of 1991, a Camden firefighter, John Maroldo, while putting out a nearby car fire, stumbled across the statue. Maroldo got in contact with the David Sherman Post 713 of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Westmont (Haddon Township) NJ.  The members of the post voted to pay for moving the monument to Newton Creek Park, on Lakeshore Drive off of Cuthbert Boulevard, in Westmont. The memorial was rededicated on June 14th, 1992- Flag Day.

       To read the May 24, 1992 Article from the Philadelphia Inquirer, click here
They Lived Their Lives To Serve Their Fellowmen
They Died To Serve Their Country
In Grateful Memory
Name Rank Branch Unit Born Died
Worthington W. Betts PFC MARINES     6/17/1944
Kenneth S. Campbell R1C NAVY  USS ESCOLAR   11/14/1945
Bernard Galbraith PFC MARINES   12/1/1923 2/19/1945
Samuel Harrell, Jr.  SGT ARMY  11th Airborne Division    12/7/1944
Gordon Henderson PFC ARMY 317th Infantry Regiment
80th Infantry Division 		  10/7/1944
Richard H. Lightowler SGT ARMY 347th Infantry Regiment
87th Infantry Division		   2/3/1945
John F. McAnulty  PFC ARMY 15th Infantry Regiment
3rd Infantry Division		   4/18/1945
Robert C. Redding SSGT AIR FORCE 568 Bomber Squadron 
390 Bomber Group 		3/16/1921 10/8/1943
Charles R. Stewart, Jr.  PVT ARMY  21st Infantry Regiment
24th Infantry Division		   5/3/1944
John L. Sullivan  PVT  ARMY    1917  3/28/1944
William Tait TEC4 ARMY 6th Ordinance 
Bomb Disposal Squad  		8/27/1919 7/9/1944
Edward P. Wheeler PFC ARMY 331st Infantry Regiment
83rd Infantry Division 		  7/8/1944

WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE IN WORLD WAR II

This Memorial Erected By Fellow Employees Of The R.M. Hollingshead Corporation Of Camden, New Jersey

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HMTS Rohna

Six men from Camden NJ, Frank Ballerino, Michael Carr,  Michael Yachus, Stephen V. Koscianski, Lewis Riondino, and Joseph H. Johnson died together when the troop transport HMTS Rohna was struck by a German guided glider bomb and sank of the coast of North Africa. In addition,  six other Camden County men, Jacob Kessler  Jenkins and Carl Johanson of Pennsauken, 19 year-old Harry V. Taylor Jr. of Haddonfield, William McKeon of Blackwood, Merl Reagle of Lindenwold, and Elmer F. Day of Merchantville  also were lost that day, along woth eight other South Jersey residents. In total, 1,015 men were lost, but the story was never told to the families or the general public for over 57 years due to wartime censorship.

CAMDEN COUNTY NJ
  MONUMENTS & WAR MEMORIALS

       Click links to visit web-pages on these memorials, and to visit "virtual memorials" to Camden County's fallen heroes.

GUEST BOOK & E-MAIL
     As of this date, February 6, 2002 I have not erected a guest-book. Please e-mail all comments to phil552@reagan.com. If you would like your comment published in the upcoming guest-book, please let me know.-
                                                                                                                  Phil Cohen, Camden NJ

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Beverly National Cemetary
NAME CEMETARY PLOT
William C Tait F 1186B
Robert C. Redding P 95
Bernard H. Galbraith F 1808