Ravenna

Location:  Grey County  N 44 28.209  W 080 25.010
In a small park at the northeast corner of Grey Road 2 and Grey Road 119.

Originally posted in May 2013, due to photo storage issues, I am re-posting this location.

Ravenna is a very small farming community, formerly Collingwood Township, in the hills of Grey County, however its contribution to the war effort in the Great Wars was not so small.  A long list of names of the dead appear on the front of this memorial, and a larger list of names of those who served is engraved on the back.  It is the small rural communities like this all across Canada which provided the brave men needed to defend our freedom.  A statue of a soldier standing at attention graces the top of this memorial.

Marker text:
Front:
ALL HONOR GIVE TO THOSE WHO NOBLY STRIVING NOBLY FELL, THAT WE MAY LIVE.

1914 - KILLED - 1918
ARBUTHNOT NEIL
CARMICHAEL JOHN
CLEMENT EDWARD
CLENDENAN HARVEY
HOY JAMES
LEE ALBERT CHARLES
MACKEY ARTHUR
McQUEEN NEIL

McCOY ANGUS
McLEOD ROGER
PETHER RICHARD
RABY JAMES G.
ROLLING DAWSON
TAYLOR GEORGE
WRIGHT STENHOUSE
MACHIN E. LEONARD

1939-1945
BOYNTON DAVID
CAMPBELL KEITH
CAMPBELL ALVIN
GRAHAM HAROLD

HOGGARD LESTER
LAWRENCE ALLAN
McATEER HILLIARD
WRIGHT THOMAS

AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN
AND IN THE MORNING,
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM

BROWN ELWOOD

 

 

Left side:
ERECTED BY THE RESIDENTS
OF COLLINGWOOD TP.
TO COMMEMORATE THE GREAT WAR
WHICH WAGED FROM AUG. 4th 1914
TILL NOV. 11th 1918;
AND THE WORLD WAR

 

 

Rear:
"THOSE WHO RETURNED"

BOYLE PERCY
BALL G. WESLEY
BOYD JAMES
BOWINS FRED
BOUGHS GEORGE
BROWN D.M.
BROWNLEE NORMAN
BROUGHTON ALBERT
BUTCHER STANLEY
BUCHANAN ROY
CARMICHAEL DOUGALD
CAMPBELL JOHN
CLARKE FRED
CURRIE NEIL
DOBSON SANFORD
FERGUSON R.G.
FERGUSON R.E.

FERGUSON CECIL
FAWCETT JOHN D.
FERRIS ROY
FERRIS RUSSELL
FLEMING R.
FRENCH F.C.R.
FRENCH R.H.
FRENCH W.A.G.
FROST ALFRED
FULFORD D.
GARDNER G.J.T.
GREY PETER
GRAHAM H.
GOULD THOMAS
HERON ALEX
HERON JAMES
HEWGILL CLIFF W.

HOGG SILAS
HOLDEN ANGUS
IDLE FRANK
JOHNSTON A.H.
KENNEDY CHARLES
KENNEDY WILLIAM
LATTER WILLIAM
LEE JOSEPH
LEE BENJAMIN
LEGATE E.R.
LOUGHEED HAROLD J.
LOUGHEED LESLIE R.
MATTHEWS HARVEY O.
MAY EGBERT
MILLER GORDON
McFAYDEN DONALD
McFAYDEN HUGH
DOBSON KENNETH

McFAYDEN WILFRED
McILLFATRIC THOMAS
McEACHERN A.R.
McINTYRE DUNCAN
McMULLER W.D.
REAR WILLIAM
REID W. VIRGIL
RITCHIE J.E.
SHAW EMIL
SHERIDAN JOHN
SIMPSON G.W.
SIMPSON C.F.
SKELTON FRANK
SMALL J.H.
SPARLING HERB
SPAUL WIBERT H.
STEELE JOHN

TAYLOR THOMAS
TURNER JOHN
TYSON GARFIELD
ANGUS LOUGHEED
REEKIE DAVID L.
WAGG FRANK
WEST G.
WHITEHEAD JOSEPH