Waterdown

 
Location:  City of Hamilton     N 43 20.048   W 79 53.542
At 317 Dundas Street East, in front of the old Memorial Hall, now the Village Theatre.

Memorial Hall was dedicated in a Memorial service on January 14, 1923.  Along with the building, a Memorial Plaque was also unveiled listing the men of Waterdown who served in the First World War, including the names of the nineteen souls who died in the war.
In 1971, a second plaque was added to list the names of those who served and died in the Second World War.  The plaques are found on a stone wall in front of the Memorial Hall.  The wall was dedicated by Royal Canadian Legion Branch 551 and the Lions Club in 1979.  Waterdown was actually part if  Flamborough until an amalgamation in 1974 created the new and quickly expanding town.  In 2001, it was again amalgamated into the City of Hamilton.  Memorial Hall is now home to the Village Theatre.  The list of names is long, as we have seen many times from the rural communities of southern Ontario.

Marker text:
Centre:
WATERDOWN
DISTRICT LIONS
CLUB
CENTENNIAL PROJECT
1979
 



Right:
TO THE HONOUR AND MEMORY
OF OUR BOYS
WHO SERVED IN THE GREAT WAR

1914 - 1918

OUR HEROIC DEAD

ELMER BAKER
ROY BURNETT
WILLIAM BRECKON
WARREN CUTTER
EDWARD CRANE
WILLIAM CRUSOE
CHARLES CARSON
LELAND H. DOUGHERTY
NATHAN A. DOUGHERTY
WURTZ A. EDGE
GEORGE M. FRETWELL
THOMAS FLINTOFF
ACHILIS HERRON
GEORGE A. INKSETTER
RICHARD JAMES
ROY MOUNT
JAMES ROBERTSON
BENJAMIN J. RAYNOR
ARTHUR SAMS
GEORGE TAYLOR

(served)
WILBERT L. ATTRIDGE
GEORGE ARNOLD
ROBERT BUCHAN
MAX BUEZEG
IRVING P. BELL
HAROLD BAKER
GORDON BOWMAN
WILLIAM BOWDEN
LEWIS BEST
WILLIAM CHISOLM
HARRY R. CLARK
SAMUEL COOK
REDVERS CHAFFE
HARRY DAVIDS
BURWELL DENT
JOSEPH C. EAGER
ROY EDGE
OSCAR EDGE
HARRY FEATERSTON
WILLIAM GARDINER

CHARLES GALLIVAN
CHARLES GALLIN
J. HARRY HORNING
OLIVER M. HORNING
RUSSELL HAMILTON
FREDERICK HAYMAN
RICHARD HARBOTTLE
LLOYD M. HENRY
EARL IRELAND
ALBERT JONES
FREDERICK JAMES
JOHN KIRK
WILFRED LANGFORD
FRANK LEAKE
J. ARTHUR MORDEN
ROBERT MEADER
FRANCIS METZGER
ALLAN MUNROE
LORNE MOUNT
PETER MITCHELL
VERNON McFERN

NORMAN McFERN
THOMAS McDONALD
DOUGLAS U. McGREGOR
C. WALKER McGREGOR
GORDON McGREGOR
MARCUS MacKAY
THOMAS NORTON
CHARLES NEWMAN
CLIFFORD NICHOLSON
PERCIVAL PALMER
A. EDGAR RICHARDS
HAROLD C. RICHARDS
WALTER ROCKETT
AUSTIN RUSK
HAZEL RUSK
GORDON V. RYCKMAN
GEORGE SIMPKINS
E. STANLEY SAWELL
HUGH SMILEY
JAMES SIMMONS

RICHARD SEYMOUR
FRANK SPECK
A. STARK
GARTH TASSIE
AUSTIN TUDOR
WILLIAM THOMPSON
ERNEST TODD
CHARLES WOOLLEY
JOHN WOOLLEY
ROY E. WILKINSON
VERNON WILLIS
GEORGE WEBB
WILLIAM WRIGHT
ARYLIE YOUNG

JEAN I. DRUMMOND
AGNES A. FORBES
FLORA McG FRID
B. MURIEL McGREGOR
ETHEL G. RYCKMAN

ERECTED BY THE COMMUNITY LEAGUE  OF THE VILLAGE OF WATERDOWN
 



Left:
1914 - 1918          1939 - 1945

TO THE HONOUR AND MEMORY
OF OUR BOYS
WHO SERVED IN THE GREAT WARS
OUR HEROIC DEAD

H. MURGATROYD
W. BUZZA
J. RUSSELL
M. McILWRAITH
C. HARDING
W. PEGG
F. MacDONALD
M. BAKODY
H. FIRTH
J. DUFFEY
J. PERRINS
L. BOUGHNER
J. ANDERSON
W. CRUDEN
C.S. COOPER
D. McNICHOL
W. McCURDY
R. KEARNS

J.P. OWENS
W. CARR
M. WILLIAMSON
G. BROOKER
G. BAILEY Sr.
A. LEWIS
D. GLASS
B. SAWELL
M. TRATCH
J. DIBLEY
W. BALL
F. HOUSE
F. MacDONALD
B. BOYLE
R. WICKEN
J. HENRY
B. HOUSE
J. CLIFFORD

DRUMMOND
M.T. LILLYCROP
K.C. LINGEN
H. VERVEAKE

S. McKINLEY
R. MEEHAN
A. VANDEWALL
G. MCDERMITT
D. HUNTER
W. WILSON
J. BURNS
A. PLANK
R. MacKAY

F. FITZSIMMONS
E. CASE
P. BALL
W. GRANT
J. BALDWIN
J. JESSON
G. BOND
W. PARKER
D. WARD
A. BONNER
W. MONKHOUSE
S. RANKIN
W. LIVINGSTON
J. WYNNE
H. BENNET
J. HOLMES
W. COLLINS
J. WATSON

L. MacCAN
G. MITCHELL
W. PLACE
M. McLELLAN
A. YOUNG
R. DeMERCHANT
K. BELL
H. RICHMOND
J. OLSON
A. BELL
G. ARNOLD
A. BLISS
S. JOHNS
S. FITZNER
S. MANSLEY
I. MAHER
B. CLUTE
G. TYO

ERECTED BY ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION Br. 551