Menu
  • Abous us
  • Search database
  • Resources
  • Donate
  • Faq

 

9th Field Hospital Plaques

<< Back to Verviers

Details:

Inside the school. The plaques are affixed on the left and right sides, on the lower part of the Athénée Till Lorrain monument wall.


Plaque

Two rectangular marble plaques with the same layout, inscribed with the list of names in incised and gold lettering. A depiction of the US flag is engraved and painted on the top center. George Willets, whose name is inscribed on the plaque, has his surname misspelled to Willers.

 

On 27 December 1944, the 9th Field Hospital had set up in a school building nearer the center of town, about one mile from the 77th Evacuation Hospital. That day, a German jet bomber came over and dropped a bomb that hit directly on the 9th Field Hospital. Fortunately, the majority of the patients had been evacuated, but 14 people were killed, most of them patients, and nearly 50 were injured. Both the dead and the wounded were rushed to the 77th Evacuation Hospital. A second bomb struck the town hitting one of the ambulances that were evacuating some patients from the 77th to the railroad. One of the patients was killed instantly, another severely wounded (he died soon afterward), but the driver and orderly remained untouched.

Source of info: www.med-dept.com

Monument Text:

Plaque on the left-hand side:

 

KONDRAK PATRICK

 

ELLINGTON ALBERT

FANUCCHI JOHN

FETHERLIN VIRGIL

FRASER ALEXANDER

FREEMAN HAROLD

 

 

Plaque on the right-hand side:

 

MANN FOLEY

 

HARPER GILBERT

O'MARA JOHN

THOMAS MALCOLM

WILLERS GEORGE

Commemorates:

People:

Albert L. Ellington

John Joseph, Jr. Fanucchi

Virgil M. Fetherlin

Alexander Daniel Fraser

Harold M. Freeman

Patrick P. Kondrak

Foley Gray Mann

John J. O'Mara

Malcolm J. Thomas

George M. Willets

Units:

9th Field Hospital

United States Army

Wars:

WWII

Battles:

Battle of the Bulge

Other images :