Smiths Falls - WWI Memorial

 

Location:  Lanark County     N 44.90351   W  -76.02161

At the Smiths Falls Public Library, 81 Beckwith Street North.

 

Erected in 1920 by the Ladies' Auxiliary of the Canadian War Veterans Association, this memorial is dedicated to the veterans and nursing sisters of the First World War.    The red granite stone lists the names of the local dead from the Great War.  The monument can be found beside the public library, which was built in 1903 by a grant from the Carnegie Foundation.  At the time, the library was a proud new addition to this growing community and the centre of activity and knowledge for generations to come.

Marker text:

Front:

IN 

MEMORY 

OF

OUR BRAVE DEAD

1914 - 1918

 

S.W. GILROY

G.B. CARLTON

G. FIELDS

A. FIELDS

L.B. PERKINS

W.H. COOKE

F. FUMERTON

S. HOLLAND

J. McGILL

G. ROBINSON

T. POWELL

J. McSHANE

 

ERECTED BY THE

LADIES AUXILIARY

TO THE G.W.V.A. 

 

 

 

Right side:

?. WEEDMARK

S. MANSFIELD

W.B. CRAIG

C.R. PALMER

W. SPEIGHT

J.A. SHEPPARD

H. CHALMERS

A. CONNELL

D. LUCAS

L. LUCAS

E. PHILLIPS

A.L. RILEY

NURSING SISTER

MENACH

 

 

 

 

Back:

H. POLK

E. MEGART

F.H. PRIOR

H. WEBB

B. O'BRIEN

S. WOOD

R. HURLBERT

H. DILLABOUGH

D.H. DOUGHTON

E.C. MacGREGOR

C. MURDOCK

D. COPPOLA

R. ROWLAND

S. COUCH

 

 

 

 

Left side:

R. HENDERSON

J. GONDIE

H. DAVIDSON

E. DOBSON

C. EDMUNDS

B. GRANT

O. HYSLOP

H. QUACKENBUSH

S. MARTIN

J.D. SHEARER

H. SPLANE

J.J. GIBBONS

C. STILLWELL

L.A. WARK

 

"THEIR GLORY

SHALL NEVER DIE"

 

 

 

Smiths Falls

 

Location:  Lanark County     N 44.89744   W -76.02046

Veterans Memorial Park, 41 Canal Street.

 

This memorial was erected by the municipality of Smiths Falls in memory of the local war dead of the First and Second World Wars and the Korean War. On the front of the monument there is a dove, a rifle reversed and a helmet. The monument features the names of WWI battles engraved around the base and the names of local heroes who died during the wars.  The flagpoles bear the Canadian flag, the provincial and territorial flags, and the banner of the Royal Canadian Legion, as well as the Union Jack and the Stars and Stripes.

A small monument nearby pays homage to the recently planted Vimy Oak in the Memorial Park, with memories of the past and hope for a peaceful future.  Also, a plaque dedicated to the HMCS Smiths Falls, a WWII Flower Class Corvette that served during the Battle of the Atlantic.

 

 

 

Marker text:

Front:

LEST WE

FORGET

 

"THEY GAVE THEIR TODAY

FOR OUR TOMORROW"

 

AMIENS   ARRAS   BOURLON WOOD   CAMBRAI

1918

 

 

 

Right side:

WORLD WAR II

1939 - 1945

GRANT AMY                       A.G. ANDRE

JOHIAL BAKER                   WM. BARRIE

O.R. BALLANTYNE            J.D. BEATH

ALEX. BEGGS                      CLAUDE BEST

B.A. COUKELL                    LORNE COVELL

D.J. DAWSON                       GERALD DAWSON

ARTHUR DIXON                 CARL DONNELLY

FRANCIS DOYLE                R.G. DREW

WM. FAUGHNAN                CHARLES FLEGG

JOSEPH GALLIPEAU          ERNEST GIFF

P.R. GILMAN                         W.J.R. GREEN

ROBT. HAGAN                     WM. HOPKINS

E.A. HUTCHESON                ROY LEACH

W.F. KIDD                              GLEN LONEY

C.H. McCREDIE                    C.H. McKIMM

LYLE MERKLEY                   W.S. MILLER

R. MILLIKEN                          JOHN MONAGHAN

ARNOLD MOORE                 GEORGE PEDRO

STANLEY PATTERSON

STANLEY PLUNKETT          JACK SAUNDERS

EDWARD SLACK                  HILLIARD SMITH

J.H. SOPER                             KENNETH SPOONER  G.C.

SHIRLEY STEWART             J.L. SULLIVAN                CLAUDE SYLVAH

J.L. THOMPSON                    JAMES TOWERS             C. TYRELL

DALTON TYSICK                 WALTER USCHIY            J.R. WARREN

DONALD WILLOUGHBY             J.A. WILTSIE

WE WILL REMEMBER THEM

YPRES      FESTUBERT      GIVENCHY

1915

 

Back:

TO THE HONOURED

MEMORY OF THOSE

WHO FOUGHT & FELL

IN THE GREAT WAR

1914 - 1918

ERECTED

BY THE CITIZENS OF

SMITH'S FALLS

OUR GALLANT DEAD

SIDNEY WELLINGTON GILROY

ALFRED J. FIELDS             GEO. FIELDS

JOHN BURTON PERKINS

WILLIAM HENRY COOKE

SYDNEY HOLLAND            J. McGILL

WILLIAM BENSON CRAIG

THOMAS ROMAULD POWELL

JAMES McSHANE             T. WEEDMARK

STEPHEN ARTHUR MANSFIELD

GEORGE SOUTHWELL ROBINSON

FRANK JOHNSTON            STEAD FUMERTON

WILLIAM CHARLES          BURNS GARTON

CLARENCE R. PALMER         J. ARTHUR SHEPPARD

WILLIAM SPEIGHT                HARRY ALEX CHALMERS

LORNE LUCAS       EARL PHILLIPS         PETER LEES

ARTHUR CONNELL               DAVID HENRY LUCAS

NURSING SISTER MENAGH           FRANK H. PRIOR

HERBERT C. POLK                BERNARD PETER O'BRIEN

HARRY WEBB           ELTON LAWRENCE MEGERT

FRANK MORRISEY              ADDISON LAWR RILEY

REXFORD HURLBERT            DAVID H. DOUGHTON

ELLIS CLEVELAND MacGREGOR     JOHN CONDIE

SHERWOOD MARSHALL WOOD        DOMENIC COPPOLA

CHARLES LORNE MURDOCK           HARWOOD DAVIDSON

STANLEY MORRISON COUCH          BAXTER OGILVIE GRANT

HUBERT ARTHUR QUACKENBUSH      ORVILLE NEWTON HYSLOP

JAMES DOUGLAS SHEARER          STANLEY MARTIN        R. ROWLAND

HOWARD SPLANE       J.J. GIBBONS          GEORGE BIGGHAM

CHARLES RAYMOND STILWELL      S. GOUGH       W.J. KIDD

ERNEST DOBSON       CHARLES EDMUNDS         E.J. DOUGHTON

LAWRENCE ALLEN WARK      E.J. WINNIHAN      LEELAND LEONARD

G.E. BULLIED      THOMAS CLARENCE FERGUSON      CLEMENT OSWALD YATES

L. SINGH             W. SINGH            H. HORN

SOMME      SANCTUARY WOOD       COURCELETTE

1916

 

Left side:

UNITED NATIONS

PEACEKEEPERS

IN THE SERVICE OF PEACE

KOREA     1950 - 1953

WILLIAM TOPPING          W.R. SLACK

THEIRS WAS THE HONOUR AND THE GLORY

VIMY RIDGE     HILL 70     LENS     PASSCHENDAELE

1917

 

 

Preston - Parklawn Cemetery

 

 

Location:  Waterloo Region     N 43.40941   W -80.37333

750 Fountain Street North, Cambridge.

 

This memorial consists of two parts, two separate memorials in cemeteries across the road from each other, so I have chosen to include them into one post.  The former town of Preston is now part of the much larger conglomeration of Cambridge.

The first and oldest memorial is found in the Preston Cemetery, on the east side of Fountain Street.  The memorial is a granite cross with an embedded sword and the names of three local men who died during World War I.  The cross was sponsored by the Sons of England Benefit Society (S.O.E.), a fraternal society for English Protestants, originally founded in Toronto, Canada, during the year 1874. Its purpose was to bring Englishmen together for mutual support, social intercourse, and to provide financial security to them and their families in times of sickness, hardship or death. In addition to these aims, the society acted as a cultural organization, aspiring to preserve and celebrate the Anglo-Protestant cultural heritage of its members. The society established a network of hundreds of lodges throughout Canada.  Several other graves throughout the cemeteries are decorated by metal Union Jack flags, which I assume represent other members of the S.O.E. buried in these cemeteries.

The second memorial is found in the Parklawn Cemetery, on the west side of Fountain Street.  It also consists of a granite cross bearing the words Lest We Forget and was sponsored by the local branch of the Royal Canadian Legion.  This is obviously a much newer memorial but does not indicate any names or specific wars or conflicts.  

 

Marker text:

Preston memorial:

S.O.E.

1914 - 1918

KILLED IN ACTION

SOMME

111TH BTN.  PTE. STANLEY ROGERS,  APR. 10, 1917.  AGED 33 YRS.

34TH BTN.  PTE. WILLIAM R. WILKINS,  MAY 3, 1917.  AGED 33 YRS.

DIED OF WOUNDS, ROUEN

111TH BTN.  PTE. JOSEPH H. GOODARE, AUG. 15, 1918.  AGED 20 YRS.

ERECTED BY LODGE GEORGE V.  N0. 313

- LEST WE FORGET -

 

Parklawn memorial:

LEST WE FORGET

IN MEMORY OF

OUR COMRADES.

ERECTED BY BRANCH 126.

PRESTON CANADIAN LEGION.