Monday 15 July 2013

Brookville

 

Location:  Halton Region   N 43 31.476  W 080 02.201
On the southwest corner of Guelph Line and 15th Sideroad.

Erected by the Township of Nassagaweya in 1921, this beautiful memorial features a WWI infantry soldier standing at ease atop a granite shaft, with the names of those who died from this area, and the battles in which they perished.  The names of those lost in WWII and Korea were added later.
 

Marker text:
Front:
1914 - 1918
1939-1945

TO THE GLORIOUS MEMORY OF
OUR MEN WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE
IN THE GREAT WAR
1914 - 1918

PTE. STANLEY R. ADAMSON  91ST
PTE. ARTHUR HADLEY  5TH
PTE. EDWARD HARRISON  10TH
CAPT. CHARLES M. CARBERT, M.C.  20TH A.F.C.
PTE. ORVILLE FLETCHER  38TH
PTE. EDWARD HAMMAN  5TH
PTE. WILLIEM TREMBLETT  38TH
PTE. JAMES MILNE  34TH
PTE.  CLARENCE CARTON  74TH
CORP. JOHN H. BLAIR  P.P.C.L.I.
PTE. WILLIAM GRAHAME  76TH
PTE. WILLIAM POLLOCK  3RD
DVR. MARK McINTYRE  R.F.A.
PTE. L.J. KINGSBURY  164TH
PTE. HARVEY ELLIOT  164TH
PTE. WESLEY ROBERTS  164TH
PTE. H.C. ELSLEY  10TH A.M.C.
PTE. FRED HILSON  164TH
PTE. JOSEPH FRYER  1ST
PTE. ALLAN READING  159TH
PTE. HOWARD C. ROBINSON  159TH
PTE. WILLIAM ROBERTS  164TH
PTE. MELVIN DONAS

"THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE"

1939 - 1945

P.O. ELSLEY, CLARENCE  R.C.A.F.
FLT. SGT. McLAREN G. PETER  R.C.A.F.
SGT. PLT.  TAYLOR, CLAYTON  R.C.A.F
PTE. WILSON, CECIL R.   C.A.S.F.
SGT. WILSON, MARSHALL  C.A.S.F.

KOREA  1950-1953
 

Left:
1914 - 1918
1939-1945

YPRES

SANCTUARY WOOD

SOMME
 

Rear:
1914 - 1918
1939-1945

VIMY RIDGE

PASSCHENDAELE

AMIENS

ERECTED BY TOWNSHIP OF NASSAGAWEYA
1921
 
 

 Right:
1914 - 1918
1939-1945

BOURLON WOOD

CAMBRAI

MONS










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