Post 51 Carthage, South Dakota

Post 51

Carthage, South Dakota

Post 51 Carthage, South Dakota

About This Post

Post Namesake

Graves-Wallum

Delbert Graves -- Killed WW1 in France

Elmer Wallum -- Went down with ship in Pacific Ocean

What Makes this Post Unique

Post charter cancelled August 30, 2010

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HISTORY

1970

Carthage Legionnaires Improve Post Building

Feb 20, 1973

The Graves-Wallum American Legion Post make imporvements.


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Carthage Legionnaires Improve Post Building

2000

Delbert Dee Graves, World War I

Delbert Dee Graves, World War I

Nov 11, 2009

Any mother sending her son off to war has to do so with such mixed feelings - pride, tempered with fear; faith, battered by the reality of death.  So often I have tried to imagine what..

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2010

Carthage Post History

Dec 31, 2010

 

The American Legion Post was organized in Carthage in 1919 and was named the Delbert Graves Post Number 51. This group conducted the Armistice Day program that year and was honored by a banquet given for them in the Masonic Hall conducted by the local Red Cross chapter; C.D. Florine was the first Commander.

 

Through the years the organization continued to be active in local affairs, presenting celebration attraction from time to time, sponsoring baseball teams..

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