Administered by City of Red Bank Red Bank New Jersey
Located Red Bank Police Headquarters Monmouth Street & Drummond Place Red Bank New Jersey
Date:
Dedicated May 31, 1926
Notes:
Save Outdoor Sculpture, New Jersey survey, 1995.
Image on file.
(On base below proper right figure:) 1898-1902 (On base below center figure:) 1861-1865 (On base below proper left figure:) 1917-1918 (At bottom of base:) HANDING DOWN OLD GLORY (On plaque on proper right front of base:) IN HONOR AND MEMORY OF/THE BOYS FROM THIS COMMUNITY/WHO ANSWERED THEIR COUNTRY'S/CALL IN THE/SPANISH-AMERICAN WAR OF/1898-1902/DIED IN SERVICE/HARRY C. HOPPING/IN HONOR AND MEMORY OF THE/MEXICAN BORDER PATROL BOYS/1916-1917 (On plaque on base below center figure:) IN HONOR AND MEMORY OF ALL/CIVIL WAR VETERANS AND/ARROWSMITH'S POST, NO. 61./GRAND ARMY OF THE REPUBLIC/ORGANIZED AT RED BANK,/NEW JERSEY, 1881 AN ASSOCIATION/OF CIVIL WAR VETERANS./THEIR NAMES MAY BE FORGOTTEN/BUT THEIR SACRIFICES AND DEEDS/ON LAND AND SEA ARE/RECORDED IN THE ANNALS OF/THEIR GRATEFUL COUNTRY./THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED THROUGH THE EFFORTS/OF THE RED BANK VOLUNTEER FIRE DEPARTMENT,/MAY 30TH, 1926./NAVESINK HOOK & LADDER COMPANY INDEPENDENT ENGINE COMPANY/UNION HOSE COMPANY RELIEF ENGINE COMPANY/LIBERTY HOSE COMPANY WESTSIDE HOSE COMPANY
(On plaque on proper left front of base:) IN HONOR AND MEMORY OF/THE BOYS FROM THIS COMMUNITY/WHO ANSWERED THEIR COUNTRY'S/CALL IN THE WORLD WAR/1917-1918/TO INSURE PEACE THROUGHOUT THE WORLD/KILLED IN ACTION/(followed by a list of seven names)/DIED IN SERVICE/(followed by three names)/LEST WE FORGET (On plaque:) IN HONOR OF THE MEN AND/WOMEN FROM RED BANK NJ/WHO SERVED THEIR COUNTRY/IN WORLD WAR II AND IN/MEMORY OF THOSE WHO/MADE THE SUPREME/SACRIFICE/(followed by two lists of names)/ROLL OF HONOR (On plaque at bottom proper right side of base:) IN HONOR AND MEMORY OF THE/VETERANS IN THIS COMMUNITY WHO/ANSWERED THEIR COUNTRY'S CALL/IN THE KOREAN WAR. (On plaque at bottom center of base:) IN HONOR AND MEMORY OF THE/VETERANS IN THIS COMMUNITY WHO/ANSWERED THEIR COUNTRY'S CALL/IN THE VIETNAM WAR/PRESENTED BY/RED BANK POST 168, AMERICAN LEGION (On plaque at bottom proper left side of base:) IN HONOR AND MEMORY OF THE/VETERANS IN THIS COMMUNITY WHO/ANSWERED THEIR COUNTRY'S CALL/IN THE PERSIAN GULF WAR./DESERT STORM 1990-1991/PRESENTED BY/RED BANK POST 168, AMERICAN LEGION/NOVEMBER 11, 1991
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Summary:
Three full-length figures of soldiers stand atop a tiered granite base. In the center, on the highest level of the base, is a full-length portrait of Henry M. Nevins. He wears a Civil War uniform including long coat and hat. In his hands he holds an American flag which is draped over a flagpole. On his proper right, on a lower pedestal, is a figure of an unknown Spanish-American War soldier. He is dressed in uniform and holds a rifle in his proper right hand. The butt of the gun rests on the ground. His proper left hand is held up towards the center figure, palm cupped. The third figure stands on a pedestal on the proper left at the same height as the Spanish-American War figure. The third figure is a portrait of Major Peter P. Rafferty. He wears a World War I uniform and holds the barrel of a rifle in his proper left hand. The butt of the gun rests on the ground by his feet. His proper right arm is raised towards the center figure; the palm of his proper right hand is cupped. Three bronze plaques on the front face of the base have bas-relief eagles at the top of each plaque. The faces of the granite base are rough-hewn.
