NORWICH — The public is invited to Chelsea Parade at 1 p.m. Wednesday, November 11, for the dedication of a Charter Oak and marker honoring Richard E. Hourigan, a Norwich Marine killed while carrying wounded men to a first-aid station in World War I.
The ceremony will take place beside the World War I monument. A local news outlet reported that Hourigan’s great-nephew, Steve Alligood, will speak and that guests can attend a reception afterward at Park Congregational Church, 283 Broadway.
Hourigan was killed October 4, 1918, during the Battle of Blanc Mont Ridge. Norwich’s Veterans of Foreign Wars Post 594 bears his name. City Historian Dale Plummer told the City Council in a memo that the captured German howitzer once displayed at Chelsea Parade is slated for a separate rededication at a later date.