Lunenburg First World War Monument

This memorial was erected by the town of Lunenburg to honour the local citizens who served during the First World War. This large memorial is a four-sided and made of grey granite. On the top is a life size statue of an infantry soldier. Above the inscriptions on each of the four sides is an indecipherable crest, same on all four sides.

Inscription

[front/devant]

THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED BY THE CITIZENS OF THE TOWN OF LUNENBURG TO THE HONOURED MEMORY OF THE HEROES NAMES HEREON WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR KING AND COUNTRY AND IN HONOUR OF THE GALLANT SOLDIERS FROM THIS TOWN AND VICINITY WHO SERVED SO VALIANTLY IN THE GREAT WAR

1914 – 1918

YPRES 1915

[left side/côté gauche]

FRED CONRAD
GEORGE DIEHL
EZRA FEENER
HARRY GREER
BRUNO HEBB
CECIL HEBB
ROGER HYNICK
ROY KING
OSCAR LEGAG
WILLIAM NOWE
NORMAN TANNER
W.C. WALTERS
ISAAC WILKIE
HARVEY YOUNG
LUKE YOUNG
LEO ZINCK

DULCE ET DECORUM EST PRO PATRIA MORE

SOMME 1916

[back/arrière]

IN FLANDERS FIELDS THE POPPIES BLOW BETWEEN THE CROSSES ROW ON ROW THAT MARK OUR PLACE
AND THE LARKS STILL BRAVELY SINGING FLY SCARCE HEARD AMIDST THE GUNS BELOW WE ARE THE DEAD – SHORT DAYS AGO WE LIVED, FELT DAWN, SAW SUNSET GLOW, LOVED AND WERE LOVED, AND NOW WE LIE IN FLANDERS FIELDS

WAR DECLARED AUGUST 4, 1914

ARMISTICE SIGNED NOVEMBER 11, 1918

PEACE DECLARED JULY 19, 1918

VIMY 1917

[right side/côté droit]

IN MEMORIAM

DEBNEY BAILEY
SYDNEY BARRINGER
CLARENCE CONRAD COSSMAN
CECIL ARNOLD LOHNES
LAWRENCE LOHNES
ERIC HAMILTON LANE
NELSON MEISTER
ADOLPHUS MORASH
H. MARSHALL MOSSMAN
DONALD PURCELL
STEWART RICHARDSON
CLARENCE RITCIE
ELSON SCHWARTZ
HARRY SHUPE
BEVERLEY SMITH
ELLISWORTH SMITH
CARLOS WINFRID
MOSHER JOHN SJOLIN

PASSCHENDALE 1918

Ce mémorial a été érigé par la Ville de Lunenburg en l’honneur des citoyens de la région qui ont servi durant la Première Guerre mondiale. Ce grand mémorial à quatre côtés est fait de granit gris. Il est surmonté d’une statue grandeur nature représentant un fantassin. Les inscriptions figurant sur les quatre côtés sont couronnées d’un insigne indéchiffrable (le même des quatre côtés).

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