Monday, May 27, 2024

Memorial Day

Memorial Field honors the 112 Dartmouth men who died in World War I. Near the main entrance to the stadium, which was completed in 1923, is this plaque :


The plaque reads:

DARTMOUTH MEMORIAL 
FIELD 
BUILT 1921 - 1925 BY THE MEN 
OF DARTMOUTH IN MEMORY OF 
THEIR ONE HUNDRED AND TWELVE 
BROTHERS WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES 
IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 1918 
AROUND THE WORLD THEY KEPT 
FOR HER THEIR OLD CHIVALRIC FAITH