Canton Preparedness Parade Roster (1942)

By Canton Citizen

Police detail – Chief William Whitty; honorary marshal – John J. Caddigan; chief marshal – Capt. Robert Dallahan, USMC (Ret.); chief of staff – Capt. John F. Finn; adjutant – John J. Hennessey; chief aide-de-camp – Major W.W. Prowse, H.M.S.; aides – Major Leon B. Turner, William Donnelly, Arthur G. Craig, John J. O’Connell, Joseph H. Lyons, 1^st Sgt. Frank Howard, M.S.G., Wilder E. Kelle; honorary aides: All Canton citizens who are members of the Armed Services; Board of Selectmen – Frank J. Carroll, Albert J. Dahlke, Richard Henley

Military details

Marines – Charlestown, MA; Navy – Boston and Newport, RI; Army – Camp Edwards and Ft. Devens; Coast Guard – Boston; Coast Guard Auxiliary – East Boston and Newport, RI; Mass. State Guard

First Division (form on Washington St.)

Marshal – John P. Chase; chief of staff – Lee W. Court; adjutant – Humphrey Nolen; Staff – Richard Anketell, Roger Baldwin, Herbert A. Baxendale, Norma Buckley, J. Sumner Bullock, Mrs. William J. Calhoun, Ronald Kennedy, Charles Dings, Jane Dana, William E. Donovan, Margaret Doody, James J. Dowling, Edward B. Draper, Mrs. Charles K. Endicott, William H. Galvin, Frank Glennon, Isabel Grenham, Mrs. William P. Homans, Walter Love, Dean S. Luce, MD, Victor Meyers, Wilbur Morse, Marion E. Pittman, Mary Queenan, Marion Maxim, Lillian Mann, Julia A. Crowley, Margaret Reardon, Mrs. G. Iveson Dana, Edward B. Reynolds, John Richardson, A. Stewart Rogers, Joseph Ronayne, Francis Shannon, Owen Stoner, Catherine E Walsh, Albert Ward, Winifred Ward, Helen Buckley, Elizabeth Seavey, Joseph W. Wattles III, Mrs. Norman Welles; mounted civilian defense – James B. Draper, commanding; Fire Dept. – Chief William F. Curtis, commanding; Auxiliary Fire Dept. – Chief Charles K. Endicott; Theodore Gallipeau, assistant; Company 1 – Capt. Walter Draper and Lt. William Kelliher; Company 2 – Capt. Harry Spring Jr. and Lt. Francis Callahan; Company 3 – Capt. Fosdick Harrison and Lt. Chester Wentworth; Company 4 – Capt. John Fish Jr. and Lt. Gilbert Cleveland; Auxiliary Police Dept. – Capt. Leo J. Galligan, commanding; American Legion Band – Leader Daniel J. Flood, assistant Otis S. Dubey; Edward J. Beatty Post 24 American Legion Color Guard – Commander Dr. Herbert L. Rice, Sergeant-at-Arms George Hunt; Civil Air Patrol – Ralph Starkweather, commanding; Air Raid Wardens – Chief Warden C. Justin McCarthy, Henry Blackler, Kenneth Reed, Edward Cruise, Edward H. R. Revere, Carlton B. Taber; Men’s Report Center Corps – James J. Hannon in charge, Margaret Revere, chief of Women’s Division; Women Air Raid Wardens – Mrs. Kenneth E. Reed, Mrs. William Shaughnessy; Women’s Report Center Corps – Mrs. Edgar L. Gillett, Anna P. Revere; Observation Post – Chief Observer James A. J. Curran, Asst. Chief Albert W. Bryan; junior observers – boys of grades 10 and 11 at Canton High School; American Red Cross – Mrs. D. Henry Childs in charge; canteen – Mrs. Humphrey Nolen; Sewing Ladies – St. John’s Church Unit, Trinity Episcopal Church Unit, First Parish Unitarian Unit, Universalist Parish Unit; Sewing Girls of Canton High School – Janet Robinson, sewing teacher; Junior Red Cross – Esther Anderson in charge; Junior Volunteers in all schools – Margaret Ahern in charge; Medical Corps – Dr. Newell S. Hagan (USN) in charge, Helen T. Carlsson, CVNA, Dr. Cletus Dunn, DDS, Dr Harold Tate, DDS, Mrs. Harold Tate; Boy Scouts of America Troop 26 – Scoutmaster Frank W. Briggs, J. Theron Briggs, Robert Kelle, H. Westcott Shaw; Boy Scouts Color Guard – John Collins, James Curran Jr., Charles Smith, Lawrence Walsh Jr.; Boy Scout Bicycle Patrol – Robert Beasley, leader

Second Division (form on Neponset St.)

Marshal – Thomas D. Mullin; chief of staff – Charles H. Gelpke; Red Cross Disaster Squadron – Mrs. Humphrey Nolen in charge; Civilian Defense Motor Corps – Capt. Hilda V. Kelley, Florence Kelley; War Bonds – Town Chairman James J. Shannon; school savings stamps for war bonds – Rita F. Mahoney in charge, Claire M. Roach; Highway Department – Martin J. Walsh; Water Department – C. J. Callahan; Brockton Gas & Light Company; Boston Edison Company; NE Telephone & Telegraph Co.; John F. Carroll; Salvage Collection – Edward H. R. Revere in charge; Max Feldman and all the children of Canton

Reviewing Stand (lawn of library)

Governor Leverett Saltonstall, Lt. Governor Horace T. Cahill, U.S. Senator David I. Walsh, U.S. Senator Henry Cabot Lodge Jr., Norfolk County Representatives to the Mass. General Court, Norfolk County Commissioners, Judge Gregory Grover

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