Castleton

 

Location:  Northumberland County     N 44 05.654   W 77 56.139
On the corner of Spring Street and Norway Street.
 

This memorial was unveiled in August 1920, by the Castleton Women's Institute and the Municipality of Cramahe Township.  Today, the Remembrance Day Ceremonies are attended by members of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 380 of Warkworth, and by 8 Wing of CFB Trenton.
During the years of the First World War, the Women's Institute was instrumental in raising funds for the memorial, as well as sending care packages to soldiers overseas.  Knitted socks seem to be a common item sent to the troops.
The names of those lost from The Great War appear on the front of the memorial, while those lost in the Second World War were later added on the back.  Something I have not seen before is the names from WWI are listed under "Killed in Action" and "Died of Wounds", which seems an odd distinction for a cenotaph.
Four round concrete balls are laid in the ground in front of the granite monument.  These balls list the WWI battles of Courcelette, Mons, Ypres and Vimy Ridge.
 


Marker text:
Front:
IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO
PAID THE
SUPREME SACRIFICE
IN GREAT WAR OF
1914     1918

JUSTICE PEACE
& LIBERTY
FOR ALL MANKIND

KILLED IN ACTION
PTE. ED. S. COCHRANE   SEPT 16, 1916
PTE. G.L. CHATTERSON   NOV. 7, 1917
PTE. GEO. DIXON   JUNE 2, 1916
PTE. H.H. FARROW   JAN. 10, 1918
PTE. EARL C. MOORE   MAY 8, 1917
PTE. ED. M. ONYON   APRIL 9, 1917
PTE. ROBT. POMEROY   SEPT. 18, 1916
PTE. ERNEST POWELL   AUG. 28, 1918
PTE. ARTHUR PETERS   APRIL 29, 1915
PTE. F.C. RICHARDS   JUNE 2, 1916

DIED OF WOUNDS
CORP. RAYMOND J. BROWN   MAY 18, 1917
PTE. L.T. GODWIN   APRIL 18, 1917
PTE.  WALTER MORGAN   SEPT. 15, 1917
PTE. WM. CLAUD PETERS   MARCH 15, 1917
GP. CLAYTON POMEROY   NOV. 1, 1916
PTE. ROY E. GRAHAM   MARCH 15, 1916

UNITED WE STAND
DIVIDED WE FALL

LEST WE FORGET
LEST WE FORGET

ERECTED BY
THE MUNICIPALITY
OF CRAMAHE AND CASTLETON W.I.
 
 
 





Back:
IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO
PAID THE SUPREME SACRIFICE
IN WORLD WAR II

PTE. JOHN E. BERTRAND   AGE 23 YEARS
PTE. GEORGE R. POMEROY   AGE 26 YEARS
P.O. LLOYD G. BISHOP   AGE 22 YEARS
F/SGT. CLARENCE A. MASSEY   AGE 30 YEARS
TR. REGINALD C. MUTTON   AGE 27 YEARS
P.O. FRANCIS G. SEELEY   AGE 20 YEARS