Vienna

 
Location:  Elgin County     N 42 40.786   W 80 47.360
On the south side of Plank Road (County Road 19), near Elm Street.
 

This memorial found in Soldiers Memorial Park was erected in 1924 to honour those who served and died in the Great War.   A plaque lists the names of all those who are remembered from this small community.  The original plaque may have come from the local school before being mounted to the current cairn.  The stone cairn may have been erected at this spot in 1949, after World War II, although no names were added of those who served in the Second World War.



Marker text:
Top plaque:
ERECTED IN
HONOUR OF ALL
MEN AND WOMEN
WHO SERVED IN
WORLD WARS I & II

IN GRATEFUL TRIBUTE
TOWARD THE LIVING AND
THE DEAD WHOSE VALIANT
EFFORT AND BITTER
SACRIFICE WAS MADE THAT
FREEDOM AND JUSTICE
SHALL NOT PERISH FROM
THE EARTH.

BE HUMBLE FOR IN THIS
PRESENCE THEY ARE
REMEMBERED.

ERECTED IN 1949

Lower plaque:
1914     1918
TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND IN LOVING MEMORY OF THE
EX-PUPILS OF VIENNA SCHOOL AND MEN OF THIS DISTRICT
WHO DIED IN SERVICE IN THE GREAT WAR AND
GRATEFUL TRIBUTE TO THOSE WHO SERVED OVER SEAS
AND, DARING TO DIE, SURVIVED.

OUR HONOURED DEAD

FRANK BRINN
EMERSON CAMPBELL
ALBERT EAKINS
ROBERT GRANT
RUSSELL JOHNSON
ROBERT LAUTHERS
CLARKE LOCKER
WALTER MARLATT
CARL MILES
JOHN MURPHY
EDWARD FULHAM

LEST WE FORGET
1924

CHARLES ATKINSON
CHARLES BALDWIN
ALVAR BALCOM
HARVEY BARTLETT
WILLIAM BARTLETT
EDWARD BARTLETT
ALEX CARTER
HAROLD CARTER
ELMAS CHUTE
EMERSON COCHRANE
CHARLES ESSELTINE
ALBERT FERRIS
COLIN FORSYTH
EMERSON GRASS
JOHN GIFFORD
ROY HANNA
EARL HANNA
GEORGE HANEY
ALEX HOWEY
GUY JOHNSON
JAMES KING

WILLIAM LAYCOCK
EDMUND LYMBURNER
OTTO LYMBURNER
HARRY LUTON
GORDON MATTHEWS
NORMAN McGREGOR
GEORGE McLEAN
ARTHUR PACE
ARTHUR PARRY
ALFRED PERCIVAL
HURON SMYTH
WENDELL SOPER
LAWRENCE SOPER
GEORGE STEERS
SELKIRK STILLWELL
WILLIAM STRATTON
JAMES I. STRATTON
GORDON WILLIAMS
GEORGE WOOTON