Lt Thomas Armstrong Memorial followed by a brief silence and then the congregation sang "God Save the King". By 1991 the church was no longer in use and it was proposed that the Marian State School purchase the site for its use. Local church services were relocated to St Stephens Uniting Church at the nearby township of Mirani and the memorial was transferred from St James church to St Stephens, Mirani. Thomas Armstrong was also memorialised at the Menin Gate Memorial at Ypres, Belgium, where memorialisation is reserved for Commonwealth soldiers of World War I whose graves cannot be identified. The memorial is a
Soldiers Memorial Library and other local residents, with the stipulation that it be in memory of the town's war participants. It is not known why or how Robert Wambolt was chosen as the principal architect; this library is his only known work in Maine. Soldiers Memorial Library The Soldiers Memorial Library is the public library of Hiram, Maine. It is located at 85 Main Street in the center of the small town, in a small concrete-block building erected in 1915–16. It is architecturally significant as one only two library buildings in the state built using ornamental concrete blocks, and was for this reason