English

The first consideration for a memorial in Moncton was in a meeting on May 18, 1921 of the Lt Col. Boyd Anderson Chapter of the IODE, which was named in honour of a Monctonian who served with distinction for four full years. Mrs Malcolm, Mrs Boyd Anderson, and Mrs Burden suggested that the monument be made of granite and that the names of “all the boys from Moncton who ‘sleep in Flanders fields’” should be inscribed on the base of the monument. They discussed several potential sites preferably Victoria Park however the specific site for the memorial was left to the discretion of the City Council. The Chapter initially estimated that the cost of such a memorial would range from $3,000 to $5,000 however the IODE, the City Council, and Peter Thompson of the Thompson Monument Company in Toronto arranged for the monument to be erected in Victoria Park for $7000. The IODE fundraisers included weekly dances, concerts, and a raffle of a wardrobe trunk and “complete Bridal Outfit” which was won by Mrs Sam Fong on April 22, 1922. One of the highlights of the Flower Carnival fundraiser was the opportunity to purchase Jon Felding and Son sold memorial wreaths made of magnolia leaves and poppies all tied with a purple ribbon to place on the memorial after the unveiling, which was due to take place on the anniversary of Armistice Day.

An article appeared in the Daily Times and in the Transcript in February 1922 called for community to send Mrs Boyd Anderson the names of the dead so that they could be inscribed on the monument by the Thompson Company at once. The Chapter wanted the list of names arranged on a plaque in alphabetical order and to affix the plaques to the base of the monument.

On November 11, 1922, the Soldiers’ Monument was unveiled by two prominent soldiers Standley Steeves and Peter Legere. The group of returned soldiers who had already arrived would form the largest group of veterans assembled in Moncton since the war. Disabled men and nursing sisters joined the parade by motorcar. Lt Col. Samuel Boyd Anderson was the Master of Ceremonies for the unveiling event, Mayor J. Fred Edgett acted as chairman.

The Reverend Canon William B. Sisam, Rector of St George’s Anglican Church, dedicated the memorial trusting and hoping “that the deep and abiding lessons of the Great War may never be forgotten so that not only today, but on other days too, there may sound on our ears the refrain of that grand Recessional—‘Lord God of Hosts, be with us yet, Lest we forget, lest we forget.’”

Plaques were later added by the local Royal Canadian Legion to commemorate the local losses of the Second World War and the Korean War.

Booklet by Shaw-Guisset (1998) and titled Monumental inscriptions in Victoria Park of those injured or killed in World War I Moncton, N. B., Canada includes all the names on the monument for W.W.I. with additional information from other sources. A copy of the publication was donated to various libraries and archives in New Brunswick.

Inscription

Frank Clarke Wallace Alward

Robert Anderson

William Arbing

Robert McLaren Armstrong

George Arsenau

George Arthur Atkinson

George Nelson Atkinson

Alexander Ayles

Frank F. Ball

William Auiden Balser

William Banniter

James Sydney Battie

Charles Berry

Charles L. Best

Fred Bingham

Ronald Blakney

Edward Bourque

F.J. Bovard

George Bowser

Harold Moore Boyd

Robert Wesley Brown

Howard Emmerson Bulmer

Oscar Bulmer

Hinson Wakefield Calkin

Ivan Newton Carson

F.J. Casey

Wellington Cassidy

Henry Chapman

Henry James Chapman

William Cheek

David William Clarkson

Albert Edward Cochrane

Frank Coffee

Harold Edison Coles

Joseph Arthur Comeau

Frank John Coram

Marcilin D. Cormier

George Loring Craig

John Warren Crandall

Leonard Bruce Crawford

John William Cripps

Roy Crossman

A Murray Curren

Allen Arthur Cuthbertson

Frank Andrew Davis

William Day

Aubrey Densmore

Alexander Donnelley

Edward Albert Driscoll

Edgar Berton Dryden

Howard Hiram Dryden

DeWitt T. Duffy

Joseph Duplessie

Roy M. Duplessie

William Edmundson

Charles Wesley Elsdon

1. Laurier Emmerson

William Leslie Gildhill Fowler

Thomas Francis

John Walter Gallagher

Sherman Geldart

George Noble Gibson

Georges Girouard

Joseph Osis Girouard

A.E.G. Godard

Edward K. Goodal

Charles W. Green

Harold Gross

Fred C. Gunn

James Allen Harris

John Leo Hagarty

S.L.T. Harrison

George E. Hicks

Bertram Hazard Hoey

Edgar Horseman

Ernest Ewart Horseman

Miles Hoard Horseman

1. Huntingford

Calvin Hynes

Alexander Ingram

James Harry Irving

Jean Jaillet

Fred A. Jamieson

Harry Jennings

Arthur Trueman Jones

James Alexander Jones

Perley Chester Keith

Edgar LaFrance

Arsene Landry

Edward Hugh Landry

George Herbert Leaman

Percy Daniel Leaman

Andrew Leaman

Edgar P. LeBlanc

Riel Silas LeBlanc

Pascal LeBlanc

Fred J. Legere

Herbert Lockhart

Oscar Freeman Lockhart

Frank W. Logan

Vinton Melvin Lutes

Oley Lutes

Charles Buxton Manning

Gordon Herbert Manning

Robert Charles Manning

Joseph Melanson

Claude Leighton Moore

Percy Lawrence Myers

George Albert MacDougall

Français

Dévoilé le 11 novembre 1922 par la section LCol S. Boyd Anderson de l’Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire, ce mémorial a d’abord été dédié aux citoyens de la localité qui ont péri durant la Première Guerre mondiale. La Légion royale canadienne a ensuite ajouté des plaques commémorant les pertes de la Seconde Guerre mondiale et de la guerre de Corée.

Entre les deux guerres, la Thomson Monument Company publia régulièrement des publicités invitant les collectivités et les établissements à commander des monuments commémoratifs de guerre. Cette annonce publicitaire, diffusée en 1922 dans Saturday Night, présente un modèle imaginé par le concepteur en chef de la firme, Emanuel Hahn, et plus tard utilisé à Moncton, au Nouveau?Brunswick, et à Lindsay, en Ontario.

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