CFB Borden - 100th Anniversary Memorial Wall

 
Location:  Simcoe County   N 44 18.731  W 79 53.216
On Cambrai Road, at the north entrance to the base.
 

This year, 2016, CFB Borden celebrates its 100th anniversary with great fanfare and flourish.  The airshow in June was spectacular as usual, as are the many events that are planned for the base and around the community.
One of the main projects for this celebration was the construction of a new memorial wall at the north entrance to the base.  This will be the site for future Remembrance Day ceremonies and other important events.  The wall and accompanying sculpture were unveiled in a large ceremony on June 9th, 2016.  The concept of this  beautiful structure was designed by famed Canadian artist and sculptor, Marlene Hilton Moore.

CFB Borden is the largest training base in Canada, this memorial honours all those who have passed through these gates in the previous 100 years, and to those brave souls who will visit here for the next century, to train and learn and respect.

 
 
Marker text:
Wall:
Front:
THROUGH THESE GATES THE SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF A GRATEFUL NATION PASS... SERVING CANADA WITH HONOUR, DUTY AND COURAGE, SO THAT ALL MAY LIVE WITH FREEDOM, DEMOCRACY AND JUSTICE.
 



 
"To those who fall I say:  You will not die
but step into immortality.  Your mothers will not
lament your fate but will be proud to have
borne such sons.  Your names will be revered
forever and ever by your grateful country, and
God will take you unto Himself."

General Sir Arthur Currie, Commander to Canadian Corps.

 (repeated in French)
 
 



Rear:
LEST WE FORGET
 


 
Statue:
They shall not grow old,
as we that are left grow old:

Age shall not weary them,
nor the years condemn.

At the going down of the sun,
and in the morning,
We will remember them.

(repeated in French)