City officials and veterans groups joined the late William G. Walsh’s family Saturday to recognize a new biography plaque on the hero square dedicated to the late World War II veteran, and announce the square’s relocation to the memorial placed in the park that also bears his name. Veterans agent Robert Santiago told those gathered at the corner of Gallivan Boulevard and
This past Memorial Day, Bill Scannell of Dorchester and a group representing the old Walsh Post #369 on Dunbar Avenue, which no longer exists, joined with Mayor Wu and Jon Santiago, the city’s commissioner of Veterans Affairs, at Walsh Playground on Washington Street near Lower Mills to honor the park’s namesake, Gunnery Sgt. William Gary Walsh, a Roxbury native who at age 22