Kingston - Burma Star

 
Location:  Frontenac County     N 44 13.514   W -76 29.225
Found in Kingston City Park, near the end of Wellington Street and west of West Street.
 
This memorial was erected by the Burma Star Association, in 1995 to honour all those who bravely fought in the Burma Campaign during World War II.   The Burma Star Association is a British-based veteran's group for all ex-servicemen and women who served in that campaign.  They have several branches of the association throughout the world, this being the Eastern Ontario Branch represented here on this monument.  The veterans who are members of the association are listed on the back of the memorial.
 


Marker text:
Front:
(Burma Star Association crest)

"When you go home
tell them of us, and say
for your tomorrow
we gave our today".
(KOHIMA EPITAPH)

THROUGH THIS STONE
WE TOUCH THE SOULS
OF THOSE WHO
DIED FOR OUR FREEDOM


DEDICATED
TO THE MEMORY OF
THOSE WHO SERVED
IN THE FAR EAST AND
PACIFIC THEATRES OF WAR
1941 - 1945


ERECTED BY
EASTERN ONTARIO BRANCH
THE
BURMA STAR ASSOCIATION
15 AUGUST 1995
 



Back:
MEMBERS OF
THE BURMA STAR ASSOC.
EASTERN ONTARIO BRANCH

F.A. AGNES     A. ARMSTRONG     E. ATKINSON
O. BECKETT     J.R. BERTRAND     L.J. BIRCHALL
ELIZABETH BLAIS     E.A. BLAIS     G. BOWLES
F. BOYDELL     P. BRENNAN     L.C. BROOKS
R.F. BROWN     J. BRYER     D.A. CAMM
P.A. CAMP     E. CHADBAND     T.C. CHAPPELL
N.R. CHRISTIE     D.C. CLAIR     L.B. CRAIG
A.J. DALE     C.J. DARK     R.O. DARK
G.L. DAVIES     R. DAVIS     H.S. DOW
D. DUNCAN     BABS DRENNAN     J.A. DUGUID
K.R. ELLIOTT     J.J. ELLIS     H.E. FACKRELL
F.R. FORSYTH     W.W. FRAZIER     J.A. FRISBY

R.A. GARROD     W.I. GEE     D.H. GILLIS
D. GOODERHAM     R.H. GOODYEAR     J.H. GRAND
D. GURNETT     P.J. HAINES     L.E. HAMPTON
H.A. HARPER     A.S. HOE      H.E. HOLLAND
W.J. HOLLAND     J.S. HORNE     A. HUNTER
F.A. IRWIN     L.D. JAMIESON     J.L. KEENLEYSIDE
J.J. LANG     J.G. LANGTON     E.G. LEE
A. LEVER     S. LEVERSEDGE     D. LEWIS
N. LILLICO     R. LOWE     A.A. MACKENZIE
J. MACINTYRE     G.A. MASK     D.S. MASON

J. MAXWELL     F. MCGRATH     J.C. MCLEOD
C. MCQUAIDE     R. MCQUATTIE     J. MYERS
F.E. NEWBURY     G.R. POWER     JUDITH PIKE
H. QUIBELL     N. RIVINGTON     J.L. ROBERTS
K.N. ROBINSON     T.A. ROBINSON     H.J. RONALDS
H. SADLER     D. SEAGER     K.V. SMITH
L.L. SMITH     H.M. SNELL     C.K. SPENCE
J.C. STEWART     REV. CANON J. THOMPSON
J.G. TOWNSEND     W.B. TUCKER     K.J. UPTON
M.E. VALLEY     E.D. WAINWRIGHT     K. WALDIE
G. WHEELER     W.J. WILMOTT     E.S. WILTSHIRE
L. WORRAL     D.A. WORTON

These veterans who returned
deserve to be remembered.