Bothwell

 

Location:  Chatham-Kent     N 42.63111   W -81.87106

Next to the Town Hall, 320 Main Street. 

Bothwell owes its origins to the vision and leadership of George Brown, one of the Fathers of Confederation, who purchased 4,000 acres of land in the vicinity, started several industries, and soon the small community grew and then prospered when in 1861when oil was discovered in the area.  The oil wells dried up in a mere fifteen years and the prosperous town began to falter, only now has it once again reached its 1860's population of 3,500 people.

The memorial is located beside the Town Hall.  It was originally erected to honour the brave souls who served and died in the Great War.  Their names are forever engraved in the granite stone.  A small plaque with the names of those lost in World War II was added at the base of the memorial, but was not present when I visited the memorial.

 

 

Marker text:

Front;

IN FLANDERS FIELDS THE

POPPIES BLOW

BETWEEN THE CROSSES

ROW ON ROW

 

1914     1918

 

THEIR NAME ENDURETH

FOR EVERMORE

 

OUR HONOURED DEAD

BERT LAWRENCE

WM. LITTLE

HUGH McCALL

CLIFF MILLER

KERNETH PARKER

FRED NEWMAN

ERNEST TUNKS

FRED HAWES

EARNEST WRANCHER

BERT McINTYRE

FRED MYRES

FRED JONES

ROBERT BATMAN

HARRY STONEHAM

WALTER TOBIAS

STEPHEN LOGAN

 

 

 

 

 

Rear:

THEY ALSO SERVED

FRED CLARKE

RUBEN BRADLEY

THOS LYNN

CHAS McROBERTS

JOHN McROBERTS

WESLEY ELLWOOD

EARL CROMPTON

GEO KRIBBS

JAS JOHNSTON

NORMAN JOHNSTON

WM. HEYWOOD

FRANK ROSEBRUGH

PETER HICKS

JOHN CALDERWOOD

ERNIE BUCKENHAM

HENRY HAWES

CHAS BURROWS