Tuesday’s Treasures - The Bedford Boys

 

Greenwood Cemetery . Bedford

Continued from yesterday…after leaving the D-Day Memorial we went over to Greenwood Cemetery where several of the Bedford Boys are buried…

I believe there is a ceremony held each Memorial Day to honor these young men…we showed up a little before it started…

Ray Stevens was a twin. His twin brother Roy survived. They were the uncles of a friend of ours. I remembered him telling us the story about them.

Captain Fellers had signed himself out of the sick bay to fight with his men.

John “Jack” Reynolds grew up on a farm in a family of 8 children. He had begged his mother to let him join the National Guard with his friends.

Master Sergeant Wilkes was one of the first to land on Omaha Beach.

There is a great tribute center for the Bedford Boys that is housed in the old historic Green’s Drugstore…we visited there about the same time and I have a lot of pictures to share…to see more on the tribute center you can visit their website HERE

In my research for this post I found a really in depth story about how this all unfolded and you can read that HERE

Linking up with Tom’s Tuesday’s Treasures