Marine Corps League

Marine Corps League
Harford County, Maryland Detachment #1198
Visit our web site at www.officialhcmcl.org

Meetings are held at VFW Post 8672
on the 3rd Tuesday of every month at 1900 hours

The Harford County Detachment of the Marine Corps League has a short, but rewarding history. For several years, Department of Maryland Sergeant-at-Arms, Guy Hall, had been trying to muster interest in forming a Marine Corps League detachment in the Harford County area and sought the support of John Baker and Charles Lyons, local area Marines, to further that idea. In February 2005, three Marine veterans, namely John Baker, Jerry Brown , and Dick Lowe got together and decided to form a detachment of Harford County Marines. The detachment was chartered in March 2005 under the leadership of temporary Commandant Gerald “Jerry” Brown, a past Department of Maryland Commandant from 1966 to 1967. The charter application was mailed in early March of 2005 with the signatures of 21 former Marines listed.

Our first meeting which was called Tuns Tavern Nigh, as both the Corps and the detachment started in a tavern/bar, was held at the Jarrettsville Veterans of Foreign Wars Post #8672. John Baker was elected the first commandant, Raymond Ayres as the senior vice commandant, Gerard Biedronski as the junior vice commandant, Gerald “Jerry” Brown as the judge advocate, and Charles Lyons as the chaplain, Evelyn “Eve” Remines as adjutant/paymaster, and Edward “Mike” Eilerman, Jr. as the sergeant-at-arms.

Since the day this detachment was founded, it has had many worthy projects under its sponsorship, our Fallen Marine program where the detachment recognizes and honors fallen Marines throughout northern and northeast Baltimore County and Harford County , and the acknowledgement and recognition of the county’s Gold Star families. By the 2005 years end, the detachment was 41 members strong. In May 2005 the detachment participated in its first community event, the Bel Air Memorial Day Ceremony and ended the year with a very successful Toy-for-Tots program.

From the beginning our detachment has held our meetings at the Jarrettsville Veterans of Foreign Wars Post with the idea in mind of some day owning our own detachment home. The Harford County Detachment has had a short and rich beginning, and we plan on continuing that tradition for a long time to come. If you are an active duty or reserve Marine, a former Marine, or Navy corpsman who serves with or has served with Marines, we invite you to attend our monthly detachment meeting and become a member. Our meetings are held on the third Tuesday of each month at 1900 hours, Jarrettsville Veterans of Foreign Wars Post #8672, 1714 Morse Road, Forest Hill, Maryland, 21050.

For more information about the Harford County
Detachment #1198 Marine Corps League
please call Commandant Ray Ayres at 410-877-7593
or via e-mail at hcmcl@comcast.net

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Harford County Detachment #1198 Marine Corps League

National Marine Corps League