Bradford - Royal Canadian Legion Orville Hand Br. 521

 

Location:  N 4406.799   W 079 33.590   Located in front of the Royal Canadian Legion, at 115 Back Street.

The memorial at the Royal Canadian Legion Orville Hand Branch 521 was first erected in the 1940s.  They have a single cenotaph to honour the men of Bradford and West Gwillimbury who made the supreme sacrifice in the two World Wars and Korea.  Also, on the wall beside the entrance are two brass plaques, each contains a list of names of those  lost in the First and Second World War.

Marker text:
Memorial:
1914 - 1918
LEST
WE
FORGET
1939 - 1945

IN MEMORY OF THE MEN
OF BRADFORD
AND WEST GWILLIMBURY
WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE

KOREA
1950 - 1953

Plaque:
1914 - 1918
HONOR AND LOVING MEMORY
OF THE MEN OF BRADFORD
AND THE TOWNSHIP OF
WEST GWILLIMBURY WHO DIED
AND IN HONOR OF THOSE
WHO DARING TO DIE SURVIVED

OUR HEROIC DEAD
JOHN ADAMS
HENRY AISHFORD
MATTHEW ARCHER
ELWOOD BELFRY
GEORGE BELFRY
JAMES CASSELS
GORDON CERSWELL
EARNEST COUSINS
WILLIAM DALE
FRED EDWARDS
FRANK ELDRIDGE
WILLIAM ELDRIDGE
DALTON GOSNELL
JOHN KIDD
ARTHUR LONG
WALLACE McCANN
JAMES McDONALD
GEORGE McMINISTRY
JOHN MILLIGAN
FRED MOONEY
EARLE NEILLY
WESLEY NEILLY
ARTHUR PORTER
HENRY SMITH
WILLIAM SPENCE
EDGAR STEVENS
ARMIGER STEVENSON
RALPH STEVENSON
JACK SUTHERLAND
CHARLES TURNER
BERT WOOD
WILLIAM WOOD
ALONZO WILSON
FRED WILKIE

"THEY LOVED HONOR MORE THAN THEY FEARED DEATH"

Plaque:
1939 - 1945
JOHN A. COLLIS
HEDLEY DIMOCK
KEITH D. FARIS
JACK GEDDES
WILLIAM LEITH
ARTHUR TAYLOR
LAURIE MELBOURNE
JOB MORRIS
ARTHUR McDONNELL
CAMPBELL PRINCE
SCOTT NEILLY
HAROLD WILSON
DAN DAVIS