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Sigerfoos, Edward (Brig. Gen.) - 1943

WAR VETERANS’ MEMORIAL MAY 16
Annual memorial services of the Society of the 28th Division will be held at Boalsburg, Centre county, Sunday, May 16, the State Department of Commerce announces.

Ceremonies dedicated to the 2,874 members of the Division who lost their lives in the last war, will begin at 2 p. m.

The Shrine of the 28th Division is situated in a wooden grove at Boalsburg, four miles east of State College.  The altar of the Shrine was erected to the late Colonel Theodore David Boal, who personally founded this memorial and who at great expense, shipped from the battlefields of France trophies captured by members of the Division.  One of these includes a simple cross, found broken in the debris of an obliterated French village, and now mounted on a stone base in memory of the men of Company A., 107th machine Gun Battalion.

Another is a cross of different design and also mounted as part of the Division shrine.  It was a wayside cross in the Argonne and near where it stood, Brigadier General Edward Sigerfoos was mortally wounded.

Governor Edward Martin was an officer of the 28th Division during World War I and was in charge of re-organizing the Division in the beginning of the present war.

Relatives and friends of members of the Division and the general public are welcome to attend the services at Boalsburg, the Department of Commerce has been advised.
~ Bellwood Bulletin, 08-Apr-1943, Page 1, Column 2

You can visit the memorial page for Brigadier General Edward Sigerfoos.

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