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