Plevna

 

 
Location:  Frontenac County     N 44 57.862   W 76 59.292
On Buckshot Lake Road, at the Clarendon Miller Community Hall.
 

This memorial was unveiled In August 2015, represents the Township of North Frontenac.  It was designed by Councilor Gerry Martin and constructed with help of local volunteers and the Northbrook Legion Branch 328.  The majority of the costs where covered with the help of Frontenac County and the Federal Gas Tax monies.  The beautiful artwork engraved on this cenotaph includes elements of the Boer War, the World Wars and Korea, as well as Peacekeepers.  During the First World War a local regiment trained in Plevna before heading overseas.
No names are listed on this memorial, simply a thought and poem of Remembrance, repeated in French and English.



Marker text:
"Dedicated to the people
who put themselves
in harms way
to defend the ideals
and freedoms of Canada"

"At the going down of the sun
and in the morning
we will remember them."