Westwood

Location:  Peterborough County   N 44 19.364   W 79 03.680
On Centre Line Road, east of County Road 38, beside the library.

 

Westwood is a small community within the township of Asphodel-Norwood.  The memorial is found beside the former Town Hall, now the library.  It consists of a single stone shaft, engraved with the names of the men from the former Asphodel Township, who served and died in the Great Wars.  The memorial was first erected by the township in 1920, making it one of the oldest memorials in Ontario.

 

Marker text:
Front main shaft:
TO BURY DEEP THE SWORD
THEY DIED

BRACKENRIDGE, MAX
BROOKS, W. DAVID
CAMPBELL, THOMAS
CLAPPER, Wm. A.
CHAMBERLAIN, ROBERT
DONALD, EDGAR
DUNLOP, ARTHUR
DOUGLAS, TRUMAN
DEVINE, JOHN
DOHERTY, JOHN
EAGLES, HERBERT
HEFFERNAN, FRANK
HENDREN, KARN
LEEPER, ARTHRU
NOYES, MICHAEL
PARKER, THOMAS
PARCELS, ARTHUR
RICHARDSON, ROY
RATHWELL, JOHN
TUCKER, PATRICK
TURNER, ROBERT
WARNER, JAMES

1939-1945
KIDD, D. EARL
RICHARDSON, ROY
STARKE, ARNOLD
STEVENSON, ELMER
STINSON, OLIVER

 

Front foot stone:
ERECTED BY THE TOWNSHIP OF ASPHODEL
TO COMMEMORATE THE DEEDS OF OUR
SONS AND DAUGHTERS IN THE
1914  GREAT WAR  1918

 

 

Right side:
THOSE
WHO CARRIED ON

BASKIN, MAUDE
BASKIN, ANNIE E.
REID, GERTRUDE
KELLY, LORETTA
ANDREWS, PERCY
BASKIN, JAS. R.
BIRDSALL, EVERETT
BAGNAL, FRED
BAXTER, BEN
BRACKENRIDGE, CHARLIE
BRACKENRIDGE, FRANK
BETTIS, ED R.
COOK, GEORGE
CHAPMAN, WALTER
CUMMISKEY, VICTOR
DIGBY, GEORGE
DRUMMOND, HARRY,
DRUMMOND, THOMAS
DAVIDSON, WILLIAM
DICKSON, RANDAL
DEVINE, ALFRED
FLETCHER, FRED
GOOLEY, DANIEL
GOOLEY, JOSEPH
GOOLEY, WILLIAM
HILTON, CHARLES
HARRIS, CHARLES
HARRIS, GEORGE
HUYCKE, FRANK
KETTRIDGE, ARTHUR
KNOX, RUSSELL

YPRES

 

 

Left side:
THOSE
WHO CARRIED ON

KIRK, THOMAS
KELLY, JAS. H.
LOWE, THOMAS
LONG, THOMAS
LAWSON, ANDREW
LANCASTER, BERT
LYNCH, PHIL
McNAUGHTON, MAX
MARTIN, GEORGE
McMILLAN, HERMAN
MANLY, GORDON
NORRIS, LOUIS
NICHOLSON, ALEX
NEILSON, HILLIARD
PATTERSON, OTTO
PARKER, JOHN
PARCELS, WILLIAM
ROBUS, WALTER T.
RICHARDSON, MAX
RING, JOHN
RYAN, ANTHONY
RAHAL, ROBERT
STEVENSON, WESLEY
SCRIVER, PERCY
STARK, DAVID
SCOTT, ARNOLD
WALSH, JOHN
WILSON, SAMUEL
WEEKES, ERNEST
WILSON, WILLIAM
STACEY-BUSH, GEORGE

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