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Looking south on South Broadway from Getty Square along the Yonkers’ Welcome Home parade route.

Bishop Patrick Hayes delivering a sermon at a Military Mass in Battery Park for the Americans killed in France, May 31, 1919 (Memorial Day). A crowd of over 10,000 attended the service.

Field Mass during the First World War at Camp Grant, Rockford, IL

United War Work Campaign Poster

Knights of Columbus sign directing men in the trenches to their hut.

The Knights of Columbus huts also provided space for the chaplains to say mass

The main purpose of the huts was to provide a recreational space for the men while away at training camp. This photo is from Camp Devens, MA.

The Longacre Hut sat at Broadway and 42nd Street, in the heart of Manhattan. It was built to hold over 500 men with the hope of providing them with exciting entertainment while on leave in New York.

Photo of Sgt. Michael Donaldson, Company I, 165th Infantry, 42nd Division from the book Echoes From Over There.

A newspaper clipping of a section that highlighted Catholic War Heroes from the First World War. This particular clipping came from a Los Angeles paper called The Tidings and described the heroism of New Yorker, Michael Donaldson.