Orillia - Veterans' Memorial Park

Location:  Simcoe County     N 44 36.622   W -79 24.705

On Lakeview Avenue, across from the Legion.

This memorial sits at the entrance to Veterans' Memorial Park, located across Lakeview Avenue from the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 34.  A beautiful place to visit in the summer months, the popular waterfront can be a busy place.  The memorial lists the names of all those from Orillia who died in the World Wars.  On the front is a metal plaque dated 1920, mounted on the white granite stone.  The plaque must have been located elsewhere before this recent memorial was erected in 2015. On the back, engraved in the stone, are the names of those lost in World War II.  A tall, nautical type of flagpole marks the memorial from a distance.

Marker Text:

Front:

VETERANS'

MEMORIAL PARK

IN HONOUR

AND LOVING MEMORY OF

THE BRAVE MEN FROM ORILLIA

WHO DIED

FOR LIBERTY AND HUMANITY

IN THE

GREAT WAR

1914 - 1918

1915.

JOHN D. GLOVER

NORMAN GLOVER

C.E. HERRELL

W.M. McDONALD

FRED ROBERTS

C.E. WILLIAMS

1916.

STANLEY F. AYLES

FRED BAILEY

JOHN BEATON

WM. ARTHUR BRIGGS

HENRY CALVERLEY

ARTHUR D. BROWN

NORMAN DICKER

WALTER B. DUNHAM

FRANK GRAHAM

JACK HARTE

NORMAN HARVIE

SIDNEY HOLGERSON

MELVILLE G. INGRAM

STANLEY MAYNARD

CRAWFORD MILLER

ARTHUR MILNE

NELSON H. MUFFLEY

THOMAS V. McDONALD

LEONARD PARKHURST

R.J. PERRING

JOHN ALLAN RAHAM

DONALD ROSE

WM. HENRY SHELTON

HARRY SMITH

THOMAS SMYTHE

ROY WALKER

W.C. WHITTLESEA

1917.

ARTHUR H. ARDAGH

ABRAHAM BAREHAM

FRED BENTLEY

GEORGE BORMAN

H.C. BURNETT

D.A. CANTELON

THOS. LEROY CHAMBERS

FRANCIS G. COONEY

REUBEN CRAWFORD

JAMES A. FRISSELL

LORNE GILL

SAM GINSBERG

LEONARD HINCHCLIFFE

GEORGE HUDSON

SAMUEL OTTO IRISH

HARRY JONES

THOMAS KENNARD

CHARLES H. KNIGHT

J.G. LAURIE

HARRY LYFFYT

WM. JAMES LYTTLE

FRED MARSHALL

JOHN McARTHUR

RUSSELL McBRIEN

JOHN McGHEE

C.H. McNABB

MERVYN W. NASH

NORMAN E. RAHAM

ORRIN CECIL WILSON

JOHN G. WILSON

OSCAR WISER

1918.

ERIC M. ANDERSON

A.E. BARRY

JOSEPH BORROW

FRANK D. BREEN

THOMAS BRIDGEWATER

EARNEST BURNET

W.D. CHRISTIE

JACK CLEGG

BENJAMIN T. COLE

ORREN JOHN CONGDON

F.H. CROYDON

ARNOLD CURRAN

HAROLD DEANS

HENRY F. FOUNTAIN

BERT FOX

WILLIAM J. GOODWIN

ROGER GRANT

FRED HUCKER

JAMES HURRY

D. JOHNSTON

GEORGE H. JONES

WILLIAM R. LAMBLE

GILBERT McARTHUR

RUSSELL McCUAIG

D. McDONELL

DAN McLEAN

HAROLD McLEAN

FRED PALMER

ARNOLD PENMAN

VERNON ROSS PHILLIPS

W.W. RIDLEY

FRED H. RUMFORD

PERCY H. SCOTT

PAUL SHEPPARD

HARRY L. SMITH

WILLIAM J. WILLIAMS

ALBERT WOOD

HAROLD WOODS

"GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS, THAT HE MAY LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS."

ERECTED BY DUNCAN C. ANDERSON, MAYOR 1920

Back:

WORLD WAR II

IN MEMORY OF ORILLIA AREA FALLEN VETERANS

ROSS M. AGNEW

LLOYD D. ANNIS

AINSLIE P. ARDAGH

JAMIE R. BOYD

ROY S. BOYD

MANLEY L. BRECHIN

JACK M. BRENNAN

ANTHONY F.B. BRODRIBB

WALTER L. BROWN

ROY W. CAIRNS

GEORGE CANDLER

ALBERT M. CARTER

VICTOR H. CHATTEN

LORNE S. CHRISTMAN

ARTHUR J. CLARK

WILLIAM H. CLARK

ARTHUR K. CLARKE

EDWARD A. CLARKE

EDGAR H. COOPER

WILLIAM E. COPP

STANLEY E. CROSS

BRUCE M. DEANS

MANSELL R. DEVERELL

EVAN C. DEVINE

ELTON L. DIXON

AMBROSE P. DOHERTY

WILLIAM E. DUNN

WILLIAM H. DU TRIZAC

WILFRED EASTMAN

JOHN B. EATON

GORDON J. FERGUSON

RAYMOND J. GAGNON

CAMPBELL C. GILCHRIST

ROBERT P. GOLDSTEIN

IVAN F. GREENE

WARREN HALSTEAD

JACK A. HAMMOND

JOHN D. HEAN

IRWIN HENRY

ROBERT G. HENRY

KENNETH E. HEPINSTALL

JOSEPH G. HINDS

HARVEY C. HOLMES

DONALD P. HOPKINS

HARMAN H. HUFFMAN

THOMAS A. JEFFRIES

NORMAN S. JERMEY

ALLEN E. JOHNSON

ROSS J.H. JOHNSTONE

KENNETH R. JOSLIN

WALTER M. KANIECKI

ORVAL P. LAWSON

WILFRED C. LAWSON

MILLARD M. LIEBECK

MERVYN L.G. LOVERING

PATRICK I. McLAUGHLIN

FREDERICK E. McTAGGART

KENNETH M. MILLER

RONALD O. MILLER

BRUCE R. MILLIGAN

JAMES E. MUGAN

DONALD A. MUIR

DOUGLAS A. NAISMITH

ROSS W. NAISMITH

CHARLES R. NEIDRAUER

GEORGE J.S. OVEREND

WALTER PENLEY

CHARLES PETTIT

PETER PICH

JAMES A. RAMSAY

JAMES M. RICE

ELMER O. RICHARDS

DAVID W. ROSENBERGER

RAYMOND J. SANDER

WILBERT G. SEARS

ROBERT J.A. SHAW

MILTON E. SOULES

BILLY SPEIRAN

JOHN T. STEELE

WILLIAM S. TAYLOR

GEORGE THOMAS

JOHN R. THORBURN

DONALD TURNER

WILLIAM G. WALKER

ROBERT H. WILSON

ERNEST M. WOOD

GORDON F. WOOD

KENNETH W. YOUNG

ORILLIA AREA FALLEN VETERANS COMPILED BY JIM WATT 2015