their country's call, served in the Army, in the Navy, and in various Civil capacities in France and in this Country. In addition very many others of the parish who remained at home rendered effective aid, working with Springfield's different organizations making and sending abroad articles for the soldiers that the government did not supply or in various ways adding to the comfort of the men in the camps in this country or in their journeys to the embarkation ports. After the war the Church gave to each of those on its honor roll an engraved certificate of service signed by the rector and the senior warden, and in 1923 Colonel Blunt presented a handsome bronze tablet in honor of all members of the parish who had answered their Country's call in the World War. This tablet is thirty-one inches high by thirty-eight inches wide, is of statuary bronze and is placed on the inside west wall of the Church, to the north of the main entrance where it is in plain view of all as they leave the building. It bears the following inscription:
For God And Country This tablet is erected in honor of the members of this parish who answered their Country's Call in the World War 1917 - 1919 and In Memory Of the following men who died that liberty might live
In his letter presenting the tablet Colonel Blunt gave the following brief statement of the services of these six men.
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