Gravenhurst

Location:  N 44° 55.081 W 079° 22.403  In front of the Opera House, at the corner of Muskoka Road and Sharpe Street.


The three-stele monument of white granite is relatively new for Gravenhurst.  Located in front of the Opera House, dedicated to those who died in the two World Wars.

Marker Text:
Centre:
THE CITIZENS
OF THE TOWN OF
GRAVENHURST

THIS MONUMENT IS DEDICATED
TO THE MEMORY OF THESE MEN
THAT SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES
SO THAT OTHERS MAY LIVE
IN PEACE AND FREEDOM

LEST WE FORGET

Left:
WORLD WAR I
1914 - 1918
EDWARD CAMERON
WILLIAM J. COOK
GORDON FLOWERS
S. GURNETT
GEORGE HENDERSON
LOUIS LEMYRE
HILTON MILLER
ALFRED C. MYERS
JOHN MARSHALL
GORDON McKEAN
CHARLES McAULEY
ARCHIE McEACHERN
WILLIAM MIDDLETON
HAROLD MULDREW
CYRIL P. PALMER
WALTER PERKINS
GEORGE PIKE
WILLIAM RICHARDSON
HARRY STRETTON
GEORGE TAYLOR
JAMES THOMPSON
FRANK WAITE
JOHN WALMSLEY
HERBERT WHITE
CHARLES F. WILLIAMS

Right:
WORLD WAR II
1939 - 1945
JOHN BEERS
J. J. CHAMBERS
HUGH CLEMENS
D. C . DAVIDSON
W. J. DOUGLAS
LEONARD DRAPER
HARVEY W. HURST
GEORGE JONES
C. B. KING
LLOYD LONG
A. H. D. McEACHERN
KEITH McDIVITT
EDWARD MYERS
JAMES T. SHORT
LORNE SLEETH
HARRY STOCK
JAMES STONEHOUSE