Here's Hugh Dwelley's letter to me, with his list of Little Cranberry Island Veterans:

ISLESFORD HISTORICAL SOCIETY
Little Cranberry Island
Islesford, ME 04646

July 14, 2006

Dear Bruce,
Here is the list of veterans graves that are decorated on Islesford each Memorial Day.  Ben Campbell was my great-grandfather.  At the Battle of Spotsylvania Court House (near where I live now), Ben got a bullet in the heel because he wasn't running fast enough!  When I was a kid, that bullet was under my great-grandmother's clock but we can't find it now.

George Wronkow was a regular guest at our little Woodlawn Hotel from about 1948.  He and wife were French.  I'm surprised to see him on a list of veterans but I'm told that he was in the French underground!  He told Shirley and me what restaurants to go to the first time we visited Paris.

A copy of a photo of George Hadlock and his crew on the HOBO is also enclosed.  Note that two members of his crew were from GCI, the rest from Islesford.

As I told you on the phone, when I was a kid the 1940s & 50s, Uncle George used to show up every Memorial Day with a bunch of flags under his arm to lead the parade to the cemeteries.  We kids had wreaths that we had made in school from cedar brush that we had gathered in the woods.

When we finished with the cemeteries, we marched to the beach and cast a wreath in the water for those lost at sea.  Then Uncle George went to Great Cranberry to put flags on the graves of the members of his crew who were buried there.

Call if there are any questions.  I'll look forward to seeing these on the internet.

Best,
Hugh