Didsbury Cenotaph

This memorial, a fieldstone cairn topped by an anti-tank gun, was originally erected by the local Royal Canadian Legion branch in 1932 in honour of the local war dead of the First World War. Plaques commemorating the Second World War and the Korean War were added later.

Inscription

[upper plaque/plaque du haut]

THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD AS WE THAT ARE LEFT GROW OLD AGE SHALL NOT WEARY THEM NOR THE YEARS CONDEMN IN THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING WE SHALL REMEMBER THEM

DEDICATED TO THE MEN OF DIDSBURY DISTRICT WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR
1914-1918
BY

THE CANADIAN LEGION, B.E.S.L.
DIDSBURY
1932

[central plaque/plaque du centrale]

DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF THE MEN AND WOMEN OF THE DIDSBURY DISTRICT WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE 2ND WORLD WAR
1939 – 1945

[lower plaque/plaque du bas]

KOREAN WAR
1950 – 1953

Ce mémorial, un tumulus en pierres des champs surmonté d’un canon anti-char, a d’abord été érigé par la Légion royale canadienne locale en 1932 en hommage aux résidants de l’endroit morts au combat durant la Première Guerre mondiale. Les plaques commémoratives de la Seconde Guerre mondiale et de la guerre de Corée ont été ajoutées plus tard.

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