Central Presbyterian Church Memorial Window

Window lists those who served in WW I and those who paid the ultimate sacrifice in both WW I and WW II

In Mar, 2018, City of Cambridge councillors approved a recommendation to provide a $5,000 grant toward the $90,670 restoration project at the Central Presbyterian Church to fix a war memorial stained glass window. The church property had been designated under the Ontario Heritage Act in 1987 and the city’s heritage advisory committee had already approved a $5,000 grant for the project back in February, 2018.

According to a staff report, in 1920 the Robert McCausland Studios of Toronto installed the memorial stained glass window in the west corner of the church’s sanctuary to commemorate congregation members killed fighting in the First World War. In 1954 an additional panel was added to the window to commemorate those members who died during the Second World War. All of the churches windows are showing there age and are in need of rear and there is a long-term plan to repair them all, but the war memorial window has been chosen to done first.

Inscription

The first panel lists those who served and those who died in World War I.

George Stanley Batters, Alberta Regiment – Canadian Infantry June 9, 1917 (Age: 24)
Robert Pedon Bell, Canadian Machine Gun Corps October 2, 1918 (Age: 27)William Cassels Buchanan, Canadian Engineers July 31, 1915
Thomas Duncan Clara, Canadian Machine Gun Corps March 29, 1917 (Age: 22)
Henry Corbett, Canadian Engineers November 15, 1919 (Age: 26)
Archie McAuley Crawford, Western Ontario Regiment – Canadian Infantry October 13, 1915 (Age: 21)
Robert Alexander Goudy, Canadian Engineers September 27, 1918 (Age: 26)
Robert Murray McCheyne Gray, Saskatchewan Regiment – Canadian Infantry September 30, 1918 (Age:29)

Thomas Neill, Western Ontario Regiment – Canadian Infantry August 21, 1917
James Gordon Potts, Canadian Expeditionary Force, Canadian Infantry August 19, 1916
Leonard Stanley Smith, Canadian Army Dental Corps November 26, 1917 (Age 26)
J Stewart – Date and Unit Unknown
Owen McIlwraith Turnbull, Royal Air Force September 21, 1918
Robert Weir, Canadian Engineers October 15,1918 (Age: 19)
Allan Archibald Wilson, Eastern Ontario Regiment – Canadian Infantry August 10, 1918 (Age: 27)
John Richard Wilson, Central Ontario Regiment – Canadian Infantry October 26, 1918

Those who died in World War II

Robert James McCormick, Highland Light Infantry of Canada July 8, 1944 (Age: 29)
Gordon Ralph Miles, Royal Canadian Regiment – 431 Squadron July 29,1944 (Age: 22)
Paul Peters, Royal Canadian Air Force – 300 (Polish) Squadron August 26, 1944 (Age: 19)
J P Rose, Date and Unit Unknown

Ce vitrail commémoratif présente la liste des noms de ceux qui ont servi leur pays et ont fait le sacrifice ultime lors des deux guerres mondiales.

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