New England Observes Firemen's Day
The second Sunday in June was celebrated as usual throughout New England as “Firemen’s Memorial Day” with appropriate services in the various cemeteries where firemen’s graves were decorated.
In Boston there was a parade headed by the Boston Fire Department Band to the Firemen’s Lot in Forest Hills Cemetery where members of the veteran firemen’s associations and officers and members of the Boston Fire and Protective Departments took part in the services.
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