Van Camp

 
 
Location:  United Counties of Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry.
N  45 02.685   W 75 26.885
On Levere Road, just east of Development Road.
 

This memorial is dedicated to the fallen heroes of this small community who fell in the Great War.  The village of Van Camp was never a large settlement, but is even smaller today.  Simply a rural crossroads with a handful of scattered residences and the former Van Camp United Church and cemetery.  The church was last used as a residence, the cemetery sitting beside it with its weathered gravestones of previous generations.
Five names appear on the memorial, young men who left their homes and farms to fight for King and Country, for freedom and for liberty.  These brave men never returned to their families, forever lost in the mud of France, never having the chance to rest in peace in this quiet cemetery of a place that no longer exists.  This place they called home, far from the horrors they witnessed in the trenches of death.
 


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Front:
DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY
OF OUR FALLEN HEROES
WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR.

CLIFFORD SHAVER
154th BATT.  C.E.F.
OCT. 31, 1917  AGE 21 YRS.

FRANK D. VALENTINE
154th BATT.  C.E.F.
JUNE 26, 1917  AGE 26 YRS.

DONALD M. HOPE
27th BATT.  C.E.F.
DEC. 29, 1918   AGE 27 YRS.

FRED BAULCH
154th BATT.  C.E.F.
DEC. 4th, 1918  AGE 20 YRS.

ARTHUR S. HOLLANDS
87th BATT.  C.E.F.
NOV. 23rd, 1916  AGE 22 YRS.

THEY DIED THAT FREEDOM MIGHT LIVE.

1914 - 1918