Seaforth Soldiers Memorial

The Soldiers Memorial is dedicated to those who died in the First and Second World Wars and the Korean War. It was erected in 1921 and features a statue with a young soldier huddled over a cross, engraved with the words “In Flanders Fields”.

Inscription

[cross/croix]
IN FLANDERS FIELDS

[front/devant]
TO OUR FALLEN HEROES

FRANCIS N. CLUFF
JAMES J. HUTCHINSON
J. SCOTT HAYS
WILLIAM HART
W. STANLEY HAYES
GEORGE MULHOLLAND
ARTHUR McLEAN
ARTHUR C. NEELY
JOHN J. PURCELL
R.E. RIVERS
J. LESLIE REID
MANSON REEVES
CHARLES ROLPH

FREDERICK WEIR
CLARENCE WESTCOTT
DOUGLAS CALDER
HERBERT CHAPMAN
ROLLO E. COOK
THOMAS EDGAR
SAMUEL H. DORRANCE
A.W. ARCHIBALD
BERNARD BROWN
JOHN E. BULLARD
THOMAS E. GOVENLOCK
WILLIAM H. HALL
CLARENCE S. GARDEN
GEORGE WEILAND

FRANCIS WEILAND
JOHN McLEOD
CLIFFORD W. RUFFELL
A.T. PARKE
E. CECIL DILLING
ALBERT BATES
JAMES HORAN
JAMES SPEARPOINT
PERCY VANNER
ROBERT I. WEST
CHARLES McNAMARA
JAMES JAMIESON
RUSSELL G. SCOTT

YPRES
FESTUBERT
GIVENCHY
ST. ELOI

SANCTUARY WOOD
THE SOMME
COURCELETTE
VIMY RIDGE

1950 KOREA 1953

[left side/côté gauche]
1939 1945
ARNOLD ARCHIBALD
VAN R. BELL
JAMES BROADFOOT
HAROLD CHESNEY
FRANK CASSON
FRANK DEVEREAUX
ARTHUR FRAISER
WILLIAM GREIG
WILLIAM A. GRAHAM
HECTOR LAMONT

JOHN MILLER
HOWARD McTAVISH
HARRY McIVER
JOHN McSPADDEN
ROBERT McCALLUM
NORMAN McQUAID
CLARENCE O’REILLY
FREDERICK O’LEARY
ROBERT PAPPLE
C. MELVILLE SHANNON

[plaque/plaque]
1940 1945

LIBERATION OF THE NETHERLANDS
THIS PLAQUE WAS MADE POSSIBLE BY A GRANT FROM
THE PEOPLE OF THE NETHERLANDS WHO SETTLED
IN THE TOWN OF SEAFORTH AND AREA FOR THE
LIBERATION OF THE NETHERLANDS.

IN COMMEMORATION OF FREEDOM

“O LORD GRANT PEACE TO THOSE
WHO DID NOT RETURN…”
WE DO REMEMBER.

THANK YOU CANADA

ERECTED 1980

[back/arrière]
TO OUR FALLEN HEROES

ERECTED BY THE TOWN OF SEAFORTH
TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE FROM THIS DISTRICT
WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE
IN THE GREAT WAR OF 1914 – 1918

“THEIR NAME SHALL LIVE FOR EVERMORE”

HILL 70
LENS
PASSCHENDAELE
AMIENS
ARRAS

BOURLON WOOD
CAMBRAI
LE CATEAU
VALENCIENNES
MONS

Ce mémorial est dédié aux soldats morts pendant les Première et Seconde Guerres mondiales et la guerre de Corée. Il a été érigé en 1921 et comprend une statue représentant un jeune soldat se recueillant au?dessus d’une croix sur laquelle sont engravés les mots « In Flanders Fields ».

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