Vernon

 
Location:  City of Ottawa     N 45.159952    W -75.462319
7814 Lawrence Street, beside the Osgoode Township Historical Society and Museum.
 

The village of Vernon was once part of Osgoode Township, until amalgamation in 2001 with the City of Ottawa.  Home to the Osgoode Township Historical Society and Museum, which houses a tremendous collection of local artifacts in two separate buildings, reflecting on the rural and agricultrural history of the area. 
Located beside the museum is this memorial, a grey granite stone listing the names of the men from the community who died in the two World Wars.  The Korean War is also recognized although no local men where lost in that conflict.

**Special thanks to Louise Bellec for providing photos and details of this memorial.

Marker text:
IN MEMORY OF THE MEN
FROM THIS COMMUNITY WHO
DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY

1914-1918
CORP. FINDLAY STEWART
PTE. ERNEST BONSALL
PTE. CALVIN BOWEN
PTE. JOHN CRERAR
PTE. RUSSELL DOW
PTE. MAYNARD HILL
PTE. MEDRIC LANOUE

1939-1945
TROOPER KENDON BOYD
LIEUT. NAIRN BOYD
SGT. ROY KENNEDY
P/O OSWALD LINTON

1950-1953

LEST WE FORGET

Port Dalhousie

 
 
Location:  Niagara Region     N 43 11.988   W 79 16.263
In the median on Ann Street, at the Main Street intersection.
 

This beautiful memorial was erected in November 1924, in an elegant ceremony to honour the local men lost in the Great War.  The statue was designed and sculpted by the famous sculptor Emmanuel Hahn.  The soldier atop the Port Cenotaph looks down in sadness at the ground below him, as if he might find there, his fallen comrades......if not for the tragedy of war. 
The granite base was designed and constructed by the McIntosh Granite Company of Toronto.
Twenty names of local heroes lost in World War I were engraved on the monument, later seven more names were added to include those lost in World War II.  The Korean War was also added later, as well as the Afghanistan War, which is recognized by a black stone on the ground behind the memorial, and at the head of a memorial walkway.  The entire memorial sits in the median in the middle of Ann Street and is very well kept and landscaped.
An interesting website with more details can be found here: http://citizensoldiersofportdalhousie.weebly.com/




Marker text:
Front:
THIS MEMORIAL WAS ERECTED BY
THE PEOPLE OF PORT DALHOUSIE
TO THE GLORY OF GOD
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
FOR KING AND EMPIRE
IN THE GREAT WAR
1914---1918
AND IN WORLD WAR II
1939---1945
WHOSE NAMES ARE HERE RECORDED
AND IN HONOUR OF
ALL THOSE WHO SERVED
1939---1945
KENNETH RICKERS
RALPH S. ECKHARD  B.E.M.
LOUIS DOUGLAS LAWSON
NORMAN TROBRIDGE
NORMAN MURRAY WILSON
ROBERT HAROLD JACKSON
MARSHALL DOUGLAS FLEMING

GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS
THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE
FOR HIS FRIENDS

1950   KOREA   1953
 



Right side:
1914---1918
HAROLD C. ROONEY
J. NORMAN PAXTON
JOHN R. COLQUHOUN
ROLAND F. ASTON
ERNEST M. ABBEY  M.M.
WILLIAM BROWN
ANDREW GARSTER
LEO R. ROONEY
JAMES N. BERNHARDT
J. CLARENCE SUTTON
W.C.S. HOLLAND
 


 

Rear:
YPRES
FESTUBERT
VIMY RIDGE
SANCTUARY WOOD
PASSCHENDAELE
SOMME
ARRAS
MONS

ERECTED A.D. 1924

AFGHANISTAN
2002---2011
 
 




Left side:
1914---1918
GEORGE RHIND
WILLIAM INGLIS
THOMAS GRIEVE
PHILIP S. GREGORY
PETER SHERIFF
JOHN LYNCH  M.M.
HILLIARD P. BAKER
ALBERT CLARK
ROBERT BRUNTON

DIED SINCE 1918
ARTHUR SMITH
HARRY J. STANTON
JOSEPH W. HART