Jarvis

 

Location:  Haldimand County     N 42.88717   W -80.11138

Beside the library, just off Walpole Street.  The library address is listed as 2 Monson Street.

Jarvis Women's Institute erected the Jarvis & Walpole War Memorial cairn which honours those who fell and served in World War I and World War II.  Walpole is the historic township where the village of Jarvis is located.  The memorial is outside the Jarvis branch of the Haldimand County Library.  Located behind the library is the Jarvis Knox Presbyterian Cemetery which is the final resting place of several veterans, as indicated by the CWGC grave markers, some of which are listed on the memorial.  Jarvis was also home to a WWII Air Training Plan base known as RCAF Station Jarvis.

Marker text:

Front:

JARVIS

AND

WALPOLE

WAR MEMORIAL

FOR THOSE WHO FELL AND

SERVED IN THE WORLD WAR

1914 - 1918

 

ERECTED BY JARVIS W.I. 

 

 

 

Left side:

THE 

GLORIOUS DEAD

KEN. CHURCH

JNO. STINGLE

ANDW. DOUGHTY

CHRIS. WALKER

WM. MAXWELL

CHES. ROGERS

H.J. WILLS

JAS. DUNNETT

JOS. POWELL

 

 

 

 

Right side:

HONOURING

OUR HEROIC DEAD

WAORLD WAR II

1939 - 1945

ALLAN ANDERSON

LLOYD ANDERSON

LESLIE E. BLIGHT

EARL BRAY

JOHN W. COLUMBUS

HARRY LEATHERDALE

LLOYD MARR

JAMES E. MILLER

BERKLEY MITCHELL

EDWIN McKEEN

ROY H. NELSON

CHARLES RAWCLIFFE

ROY M. SCHAEFFER

J. ARTHUR STEWART

GORDON TAYLOR

FRANK VEENSTRA

 

 

 

 

Back:

WHEN THE COMMONWEALTH AIR TRAINING PROGRAMME CLOSED IN

EARLY 1945   39 AIRMEN FROM NO. 1 B AND C JARVIS HAD LOST THEIR

LIVES BY ACCIDENTS.  THE FIRST 10 NAMES BELOW ARE THOSE OF

WHOSE REMAINS WERE ELECTED TO REMAIN IN THE

AIR FORCE PLOT IN THE ADJOINING CEMETERY.

GEORGE BEST  RAF  JULY 3/44  L.A.C.

RAY MCNABB  RAAF  JULY 6/41  L.A.C.

KENETH SLATER  RAAF  JULY 23/42  P.O.

GEORGE R. TROUTBACK  RCAF  N.Z.  JUNE 11/43  FL. SARG. 

CHARLES TAGGART  RAAF  JULY 6/41  L.A.C.

NORMAN WADE  RAF  N0V. 9/42  SARG.

JOHN BRADFORD WATTS  RAAF  JULY 3/44  FL. SARG.

ROBERT WALLER  RAF  JULY 3/44  L.A.C.

JOHN WHITEHEAD RCAF  N.Z.  AUG. 18/42  P.O.

JOHN WILLIAMS RAF  JULY 23/42  L.A.C.

REGINAL POWELL  AUG. 5/45  L.A.C.

ROBERT LANG  JULY 29/63  H.L. INF.

EDWARD CHAPMAN  AUG. 29/72  RCEME

ERECTED BY THE JARVIS LIONS CLUB ON THE

50TH ANNIVERSARY OF D. DAY.