Paisley Cenotaph

This monument commemorates the soldiers of Paisley and surrounding communities who died of the Great War.

Inscription

[front/devant]

PAISLEY

THOMAS BABCOCK
JAMES D. BAIN
FRED A. BALLACHEY
FRANK S. BOYLE
HAROLD COLLINS
WILLIAM CUNNINGHAM
JOHN L. HAMILTON
HARRY JACK
ROBERT MAWHINNEY
A. GLADSTONE McGREGOR
DUNCAN C. McKERRACHER
JOHN McLEOD
HORACE PARKER
EMERSON A. PEARCE
JOHN ROLSTON

THEIR NAME LIVETH
FOR EVERMORE

IN HONOURED MEMORY OF THE MEN OF
PAISLEY AND ADJOINING TOWNSHIPS OF
BRUCE ELDERSLIE GREENOCK AND SAUGEEN
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE GREAT WAR
1914 – 1919

[left side/côté gauche]

BRUCE
(EAST)

THOMAS ARCHER
ROY ATKINSON
ALEX C. McGILLIVRAY
JAS. McGILLIVRAY
R. BRUCE McGREGOR
ALEX N. McLEISH
WM. J. WHITE

GREENOCK
(NORTH)

JOHN McAFEE
WM. McLAGGAN
HUGH MEGRAW
THOMAS A. WOODS

[back/arrière]

FOR KING
AND
COUNTRY

YPRES
SOMME
VIMY RIDGE
PASSCHENDAELE
BOURLON WOOD
CAMBRAI
ARRAS
AMIENS

“THESE LAID THE WORLD AWAY POURED OUT THE RED
SWEET WINE OF YOUTH GAVE UP THE YEARS TO BE
OF WORK AND JOY AND THAT UNHOPED SERENE
THAT MEN CALL AGE:-
AND WE HAVE COME INTO OUR HERITAGE”
RUPERT BROOKE

[right side/côté droit]

ELDERSLIE

WM. A. ANSTEAD
JOHN R. BLACKBURN
WM. HAMMOND
SYDLENY HOOEY
DOUGLAS JAY
DOUGALD McLEAN
DAVID SCOBIE
JOHN WOODS
JOHN YOUNG

SAUGEEN
(EAST)
JAMES MILLER
GEORGE MUIR
GEO. E. SWITZER
M WM. SWITZER

Ce monument est dédié au soldats de Paisley et des communautés environnantes qui sont morts dans la Grande Guerre

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