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.

Robert P. Squires

United States Army 1942-1945

World War II

WWII Victory Medal

good conduct medal

Bob joined the United States Army in 1942 as a Russian and German translator at the Headquarters Company Service Command Unit 3109 at Fort Devens, Massachusetts, interrogating and interviewing prisoners of war during World War II. He was honorably discharged in 1945 with the rank of Sergeant. He received the Good Conduct Medal, the Victory Medal, and the American Theater Campaign Ribbon.

Bob earned a Bachelor of Science degree from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. He was president of Newgate Ginger Ale Company and Esquire Gas Products Company, both in Thompsonville, when he passed away in 1983. Bob was active in the community, including past president of the Enfield Rotary Club and honored as a Paul Harris Fellow, past president of Temple Beth El Brotherhood, an officer of Enfield Big Brothers with wife Irma, a Mason and Shriner, and a longtime member of the Enfield Society for the Detection of Thieves and Robbers.

Bob and Irma had two sons, three granddaughters, and one great-granddaughter.