Wiarton

 

Location:  Bruce County   N 44 44.574  W 081 08.448
On the east side of Berford Street (Highway 6) in downtown Wiarton, beside the Legion.

Dedicated to the men of Wiarton, who died in the two Great Wars and Korea.  The memorial rests beside Royal Canadian Legion Branch 208, and consists of a statue topping three shafts with the names of the dead.  The stone for the statue was sent from England, the statue features a WWI soldier at rest, paying his respects to his fallen brothers.  Originally erected after the First World War, additions to the memorial were added at later dates.

 

Marker text:
Centre column:
ERECTED TO PERPETUATE
THE MEMORY OF OUR HONOURED
DEAD AND THOSE WHO CARRIED
ON IN THE GREAT WAR
1914 - 1918
FROM THE TOWN OF WIARTON

1939-1945
G. BURBEE
H. CATLEY
L. CULBERT
H. ELDRIDGE
J. FOGDEN
C. FRASER
A.C. GONDER
G. KENNEDY
J. LOUCKS
E. McGARVEY

Wm. McMASTER
G. McMILLAN
B. MILLAR
R. MOORE
O.S. PAGE
J.A. PATTERSON
B. SUSSMAN
S. TILLEY
W. WINCH
D. WRIGHT

 

Left column:
OUR
HONOURED DEAD
C.W. ALLAN
Wm. BENNETT
B. BLACKMAN
L.E. BOLTON
W. CALDWELL
W.J. CARSON
J.T. CRAWFORD
F.E. DAWS
A. DAY
W.A. DOBSON
J. ELLIOTT
J.A. FERGUSON
L.I. GLOVER
S. HAWKE
R.C. HUNTER

 

Right column:
OUR
HONOURED DEAD
G-W. JERMYN
L. MACARTNEY
W.S. McDONALD
R.E. McDONALD
C.B. MILLER
C. MITCHELL
E.E. POPE
W. RUHL
A.A. SINCLAIR
C. WRIGHT
--------------
SINCE RETURNING
R. McEACHERN
W. SINCLAIR
J. JACKSON
O. WINCH

 

Left side:
YPRES
FESTUBERT
GIVENCHY
THE SOMME
COURCELETTE
VIMY RIDGE

 

Right side:
PASSCHENDAELE
AMIENS
ARRAS
BOURLON WOOD
CAMBRAI
MONS

 

Left planter:
U.N.
PEACEKEEPERS

 

Right planter:
KOREAN WAR
1950-1953

 

On grass in front:
LEST WE
FORGET

THIS CENOTAPH
MAINTAINED BY
BRANCH 208
ROYAL CANADIAN
LEGION