GLOUCESTER CITY, N.J.
WAR MEMORIAL

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Gloucester City NJ has given 65 of its young men to our nation since 1917, a huge loss in proportion to the actual population of the town. Gloucester has honored its fallen heroes with a series of monuments on the east side of Broadway in the center of town.

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KOREA

VIETNAM

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GLOUCESTER CITY WWI MONUMENT PHOTOS

GLOUCESTER CITY WWII MONUMENT PHOTOS

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GLOUCESTER CITY
KOREAN & VIETNAM WAR MEMORIAL PHOTOS

October 26, 1947

Gloucester City, NJ

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Gloucester City, NJ

1949

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 K. 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 and  also were lost that day. 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.

THE ROHNA DISASTER
CAMDEN COUNTY INTERNET WAR MEMORIAL

The Rohna Survivors Memorial Association

MSNBC Coverage - Tom Brokaw
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CAMDEN COUNTY NJ
  MONUMENTS & WAR MEMORIALS

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Beverly National Cemetary

DAVID BARNABY, Private, of 521 Hunter Street, Gloucester City, was fatally injured  when he was kicked by a horse over the right eye, near Hausen, Germany, on February 2, 1919. He was a member of Battery F, 76^th Field Artillery, in the Army of Occupation, and was sent on a detail for horses to Hausen. On the return Barnaby asked permission to fall out to adjust his saddle. The detail had gone but one hundred yards when Corporal Hayes saw him fall. When the detail reached Barnaby they found him badly injured and he was taken to the hospital at Mayen, Germany, where he died on February 5^th, He was the son of Mrs. Rebecca Barnaby, of 521 Hunter Street, Gloucester City.BACK

FREDERICK H. BAYNES, Sergeant, of 935 Monmouth Street, Gloucester City, was killed in action in the Meuse-Argonne offensive on October 9, 1918. He enlisted in the old Third Regiment, National Guard of New jersey, and was sent with the regiment to Camp Edge, Sea Girt, on July 25, 1917, and later transferred to Camp McClellan, Anniston AL. He became a member of Company G, when the regiment was changed to the 114^th Infantry. He was the son of Frederick H. and Rebecca Baynes of Gloucester City.BACK

WILLIAM M. HICKMAN, Private, of 613 Market Street, Gloucester City, was killed in action on September 29, 1918. He was one of twelve volunteers who endeavored to capture a German machine-gun nest in the Argonne Forest. He was shot in the hip and as he fell was shot in the forehead and instantly killed. He was the only one of the twelve to be slain. Private Hickman was a member of Company B, 145^th Infantry, and was drafted April 29, 1918 and sent to Camp Lee VA, for training. He arrived in France on June 22, 1918. This young soldier was the son of William C. and Elizabeth Louise Hickman, of Gloucester City.BACK

AMON LANE

JOHN J. SHELDON, Private, of Gloucester City, died at Syracuse Recruit Camp, Syracuse NY on October 13, 1918, from pneumonia. The young man had been drafted July 29, 1918 and sent to Syracuse, where he had been assigned to Battery A, 126^th Field Artillery. He was the son of Louis and Mary Sheldon, and resided at 100 North Broadway, Gloucester City.BACK

TOWNSEND C. YOUNG, Private, of Gloucester City, Was killed in action October 12, 1918, north of Verdun when the 29^th Division entered the Meuse-Argonne battle. He was a member of Company G, 114^th Infantry, and went away from Camden with the Third New Jersey National Guard, on July 25, 1917, and was trained at Camp Edge at Sea Girt NJ and Camp McClellan at Anniston AL. He was the son of Mr. And Mrs. Charles Young, of Gloucester City.BACK