Friday, 9 November 2012
Orono - Orono Cemetery
Location: Durham Region N 43 59.199 W 078 37.046
At the entrance to the Orono Cemetery, at the north end of Mill Lane, which runs off Mill Street.
The gates to the Orono Cemetery mark the location of the first memorial in town. It was built in November of 1922, in memory of those who lost their lives in World War I. The memorial consist of four stone pillars that form the cemetery gates. Two brass plaques, one on each side of the gate, list the names of the dead.
Market text:
Left:
IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THOSE
THAT GAVE THEIR LIVES
FOR KING AND COUNTRY
CLAYTON S. ANDRUS
ARTHUR BARNARD
REGINALD BARTON
LIONEL BOWEN
JAMES BOWEN
FLETCHER J. CAIN
STANLEY COLLINS
SAMUEL C. CLANVILLE
FREDERICK W. GIBSON
LELAND W. HOOPER
J. HARVEY JACKSON
DAVID LAW
W.N. LOWNIE
WILBERT J. MALLORY
ROLAND M. WHITE
THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE
Right:
AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN
AND IN THE MORNING
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM
DONALD R. MC.DONALD
GEORGE NODEN
GEORGE OPENSHAW
ROBERT PATTON
ERNEST D. ROWE
FRANK SHIPWAY
A.M. STUART
OSCAR SOWDEN
A. MALCOLM STEWART
H. RAY SIMPSON
GEORGE CHARMAN
LYNESS A.M. HENRY
JAMES A. LITTLE
WILFRED G. HOY
THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE
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