Tuesday 5 February 2013

Warkworth


 
Location:  Northumberland County  N 44 12.118  W 077 53.217
In front of the Memorial Community Hall, on the north side of Church Street, just east of Dominion Street.

A single granite shaft, with the names of the dead of the two World Wars.  Represents the people of Percy Township, who erected this memorial.  The memorial sits in front of the Memorial Community Hall, which also house the Township of Percy Library and the Warkworth Percy Historical Society.  A beautiful area with benches, flowers and trees, surrounds the memorial.

Marker text:
TO THE MEMORY
OF OUR SONS
WHO GAVE THEIR ALL

1914 – 1918     1939 – 1945

I
ANDERSON J.S.
ARMOUR S.
BAILEY A.
BAKER C.
BARRY J.
CAMPBELL C.F.
COBBLEDICK G.
COLLETT F.
DOHERTY J.
DURRAN G.W.
GARBUTT E.
GRANT A.
HARDY A.
LAVER W.A.
MERRIAM A.
MERRIAM C.
MOWAT J.L.
PETERS A.
POWELL E.

I
RICHARDSON J.
RICHARDSON W.J.
SARSON N.C.
SEENEY W.
VANSICKLIN L.
WATERSON W.
WHITE R.
WILSON W.W.
WINTERS J.
YULE J.A.

II
DUDLEY J.W.
FITZPATRICK C.
GREENLY A.J.
MASSEY C.
POOLE J.
RICHARDSON G.
RICHARDSON K.
STEWART J.

ERECTED BY THE CITIZENS OF
PERCY TOWNSHIP

”The torch to us is flung
be ours to hold it high.”




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