The Rotary Club of Enfield is honoring Enfield’s veterans by sponsoring military tribute banners that will be displayed in Higgins Park, the Town Green, Freshwater Walkway, North Main Street and Hazardville between Memorial Day and Veterans Day in 2026 and 2027. The Enfield Public Library partnered with Enfield Rotary to preserve digital versions of these banners as well as biographical information about each veteran.
Reno Cyr
United States army 1944-1945
World War II
Private first class
asiatic-pacific campaign medal
Reno Cyr was raised on the northern Maine border with Canada, the farm he was raised on overlooked the St. John River into Canada. Reno was the oldest of eight children, working on the family owned potato farm. There were six sons and two daughters. All six brothers served in the US Military (five in the Army, and one in the Navy), four brothers served in World War II at the same time. Also, one of the brothers retired from the Army after serving in WW II, Korea, and Vietnam.
Reno proudly served in the Asia Pacific region as a Military Policeman in Okinawa in 1944-1945.
Upon release from the Army, he lived in Hartford, CT for 12 years, and moved to Enfield in June, 1957 and lived there until 1983. He worked as a machinist at Stanadyne, Inc. in Windsor for over 33 years.
He died in 1983 at 58 years old.
