Gananoque Cenotaph

The Gananoque Cenotaph was dedicated by local citizens on December 15, 1920. The statue at the top is a soldier at rest, leaning on his rifle.

In 1920 the Canadian William A. Rogers Limited Company published a catalogue of memorial designs including the over-life-sized statue of a pensive infantryman, leaning on his rifle, with his chin resting on his hand. According to the catalogue, Rogers was at that time the only bronze foundry in Canada that had successfully made large casts like this, the figure is a cast from a model by a St. Boniface sculptor named Nicolas Pirroton.

Fifty-eight local men gave their lives in the First World War and in their memory, 58 trees were planted in Town Park in May of 1919, at the first Remembrance ceremony commemorating their sacrifice.

The names of the 25 local dead from the Second World War were added in 1946. In 2005, the cenotaph was restored. Corporal Randy Payne, killed in Afghanistan, was added in 2006 and the cenotaph was rededicated in 2007.

The youngest local soldier to lose his life was William Dailey, age 15, and the oldest was John Leakey, age 50. Three local families each lost two sons in the First World War and one family lost a son in both of the World Wars.

Inscription

[front/devant]

ERECTED BY THE CITIZENS OF
GANANOQUE
IN HONOURED MEMORY OF THE
MEN OF THE TOWN AND DISTRICT
WHO FOUGHT AND FELL
IN THE GREAT WAR
1914 – 1918
THEIR NAME LIVETH
FOR EVERMORE

IN MEMORY OF OUR MEN WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE
WORLD WAR II 1939-1945

KOREAN WAR 1950-1953

[left side/côté gauche]

DONALD ERIC TURNER, ROBERT LUCY, OSCAR LLOYD, MILLARD WRIGHT, JOHN LEAKEY, ALFRED STUNDEN, ROLFE McKEIL, CHARLES MATTHEWS, STANLEY MOSS, WILSON MILLER, RODERICK E O’CONNOR, HUGH MOSS, CHARLES H PECOR, NORMAN ROGERS, RALPH RANGER, BERNARD RICHARDS, ALFRED TEALE, EWART M RICHARDSON, Wm DEMPSTER STREET, HENRY TYRON, H LEE, VERNON ABRAHAM STREET, FLIGHT-LIEUT AMYAS TERRELL SAMPSON, CHAS STOLIKER, WILLIAM L WATSON, IVAN LANDON, BRENTON HAYNES, JOSEPH HERBERT, JACK KINNIER, JOHN WALLACE, JAMES DRUMMOND

WORLD WAR II
P.O. G.H. ARMSTRONG
P.O. L.G. BISHOP
A.S. E. BRADLEY
P.F.C. O.M. DAVIS
GNR. H.J. DUNDON
CPL. J.E. GRAHAM
GNR. O.H. HARPER
A.S. J. HUGHES

[back/arrière]

YPRES FESTUBERT
GIVENCHY ST. ELOI
HOOGE SOMME
COURCELETTE DOUAI
MONS VIMY RIDGE
BOURLON WOOD ARRAS
AMIENS CAMBRAI
LENS SANCTUARY WOOD
PASSCHENDAELE

WORLD WAR II
SGT. B.B. KEYES
SGT. W.C. KNAPTON
SGT. L.A. LaCHAPELLE
SGT. M. LAMBERT
GNR. C.A. MASSEY
P.O. K.W. MacDONALD
FLT. SGT. W.J. MacMILLAN
MAJ. A.B. McDONALD
SGT. D. MILLS

AFGHANISTAN — 2006 — RANDY PAYNE

[right side/côté droit]

LIEUT. COL. RUSSELL HUBERT BRITTON D.S.O., HAROLD ADAIR, WILLIAM APLIN, GEORGE BOWYER, PETER T. BARKER, F.L. DAVIS, CAPT. Wm ELMER BROWN V.C., HUGH CALVERT, WILLIAM CHESTER, FRED H. GLOVER, SANFORD COMPEAU, WILLIAM DAILEY, FREDERICK CARTER, ALONZO COWAN, Wm. J. DEMPSTER, GEORGE H. DAVIS, ERNEST J. EASTWOOD, Wm GARRAH, FREDERICK FLETCHER jnr, M.J. FLYNN, NORMAN J. CLIFFORD, WILLIAM DEIR, JAMES GRUNDY, ELLIS J. GIBBONS, Wm HARRY GIBBONS, CHAS WATSON

WORLD WAR II
F.O. D.H. PETCH
MAJ. E.B. ROGERS
GNR. B. SANDERS
LIEUT. W.B. SAMPSON
F.O. W.H. THOMPSON
CAPT. E.R. WALDIE
L.A.C. C.V. WARD
CAPT. F.E. WRIGHT

Ce mémorial érigé par les citoyens de Gananoque est dédié aux hommes de la ville et du district. Il a été inauguré de nouveau en 2007 après l’ajout du nom du Caporal Randy Payne, qui a été tué en Afghanistan.

Le texte de l’inscription figure dans la section anglaise.