The stained-glass triptych in our lobby, installed in 1920, was created by Henry Wynd Young (1874–1923). St. Michael (on the left) and the Archangel Gabriel (bearing a scroll inscribed Deo Judice, meaning God judges) flank the memorial panel. Dated 1914-1918, it displays the shield’s of America’s allies:  Britain, France, Italy, Belgium, Serbia and Japan. On either side, inscribed in stone are the names of parishioners lost in the Great War: Oric Bates, Ezra Charles Fitch Jr., Edward Hooper Gardiner, Prescott Wilder Gould, Harold Brittan Klingman, Samuel Pierce Mandell, Davidge Warfield Patterson, Edward Hale Perry, Nathan Stone Simpkins Jr., Kenneth Weeks, Lawrence Barrett Williams, and Richmond Young.

 

 

We have in our archives this woolen service flag, which we believe represents soldiers from the Emmanuel community. Its four gold stars represent those who had died, while the 133 blue stars stand for those in active service at the time it was made, probably in 1918.

Please contact our Parish Historian Mary Chitty at archivist@emmanuelboston.org if you know anything more about our fallen heroes.

 

 

Thanks to Harvard’s Houghton Library for the following images and to John Mears, who researched their records.

 

 

 

 

Davidge Warfield Patterson, born 19 March 1895, Harvard Class of 1916, was killed on 21 Dec. 1918.

 

 

 

 

 

 

Oric Bates (1883-1918) attended the Noble & Greenough School and Harvard.  A Madcap Cruise (Boston:  Houghton Mifflin, 1905) and his other books about Egypt are available at the Hathi Trust.

Lt. Edward Hooper Gardiner, born 14 May 1896, educated at the Berkshire School and Harvard, joined the Aero Squadron, and died 12 September 1918 in the St. Mihiel offensive near Metz, France.

Lt. Samuel Pierce Mandell II was born March 20,1897 at Beverly MA to George Snell Mandell and Emily Proctor Mandell.  His father was owner and editor of the Boston Evening Transcript.  Samuel graduated from St. Mark’s School in 1915 and attended Harvard for two years before he enlisted in March 1917.  He received his commission as first lieutenant on Nov. 5, 1917, and flew with the Twentieth Aero Squadron until his death on 5 November 1918 in the last sortie of the Meuse-Argonne Campaign in France.  Our fourth rector Elwood Worcester and the Rev. William G. Thayer of St. Marks School officiated at a memorial service for him at Emmanuel on January 22, 1919.  He is buried in a churchyard in Martincourt sur Meuse, France, but has a marker in the family plot at Mt. Auburn Cemetery.

1st Lt. Edward Hale Perry was born in Boston on 23 January 1887, attended Noble & Greenough School and Harvard, and died 30 March 1918 in the Argonne Forest near Abancourt, France.

Nathaniel Stone Simkins, Jr. was born Dec. 14, 1885, in New York City, attended St. Mark’s School, and graduated from Harvard in 1909. He died of pneumonia on Oct. 22, 1918, at Verdun, France.

Kenneth Weeks (1889-1915), son of parishioners Andrew Gray & Alice Weeks, attended MIT. He moved to France in 1910 and enlisted in the French Foreign Legion in 1914. His mother published a book about him entitled Greater Love Hath No Man, which we have in our archives. A brass tablet (#N) on the western wall of our nave is dedicated to him.

Lawrence Barrett Williams was killed in action on July 19, 1918, at the Battle of  Chateau-Thierry on the Marne River in France.  He fought under Gen. J.J. Pershing as a corporal with Battery A ,101st Infantry, 26th Division of Field Artillery. Pictured here at 24 in 2017, he was a suitor of Leslie Cobb Warren before she married James R. Warren.