Saturday 3 March 2018

Teeswater


 
Location:  Bruce County     N 43 59.926   W 81 17.210
On the east side of Clinton Street South, just south of Union Street.
 

A traditional small town cenotaph with a marble statue of a soldier standing on top of a granite shaft, a metal plaque bearing the names of the dead.  The large plaque on the front of the memorial lists those from Teeswater and Culross, who made the supreme sacrifice in the First World War.  A smaller plaque on the side lists those from the Second World War.  As we have seen on many occasions, the long list of names from the rural farming communities is terribly long considering the size of the area.  The sacrifice made by these heroes was felt by everyone in the community.  Their names will live in the memories of the local families who were changed forever by the price of victory.




Marker text:
Front:
1914     1918

"WHO SO GIVETH HIS LIVE FOR MY SAKE
SHALL FIND IT"

WORLD WAR   1914 - 1918
CULROSS AND TEESWATER

NURSING SISTER MAUDE C. McGLYNN
ALEXANDER BANNERMAN
ALEXANDER ALPHONSE BRICK
GEORGE DAVID COLVIN
WALTER CLITHEROE
CLARENCE DONALD
NORMAN W. FARQUHARSON
HAROLD FRASER
THORNTON FEAR
WILLIAM J. HIGGINS
ELWOOD HEWITT
SIMON P. KIEFFER
THOMAS RICHARD KING
JOHN BENJAMIN LAWRENCE
WILLIAM SIMPSON LINDSAY
ROSCOE MAHONEY
ERNEST E. MOORE
JAMES McKINNON
ALLAN MELHUISH
ANDREW BONAR REID
ALFRED READ
THOMAS SMITH
ALBERT J. WORRALL

"HIS NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE"
 





Left side:
2ND WORLD WAR
1939 - 1945

OLIVE LILLIAN LITT
JAMES McKAGUE
A.M. MEYER
VICTOR MEYER
TED MORAN
 








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