Alliston Union School Cenotaph

This memorial is dedicated to those who fought and died in the Great War. All names are of those who attended the school. A brass plaque adorns the front of the memorial, while the back shows engraving of the major battles of the war.

Inscription

[front plaque/plaque en avant du monument]

1914 – 1918
ALLISTON SCHOOL HONOURS HER DEAD
AND THOSE DARING TO DIE SURVIVED
OUR HEROIC DEAD

[left column/colonne de gauche]
STANLEY BROOKS
BERNAL BROWN
ROY BUCHANAN
LYMAN CHANTLER
GORDON DALE
CECIL WILSON

[centre column/colonne du centre]
CHAS. S, DAVISON
JUDSON ELLIS
STEWART FOSTER
WILLIAM HENDERSON
FRANK HOLT

[right column/colonne de droite]
ROBERT MOUDER
NELSON PADDISON
NOBLE RILEY
FRED STEELE
ROSS SHEPHERD
RAY WALLACE

[centre/centre]
LEST WE FORGET
THESE ALSO SERVED

[first column/première colonne]
NURSE T. DONNELLEY
NURSE E.KNIGHT
NURSE E.MOORE
NURSE F.MCMAHON
NURSE N.NORTON
NURSE W.REYNOLDS
NURSE K.RYAN
NURSE M.E.WALLACE

W.D. ALLEN
R. ANDERSON
F.G. BANTING
H.J. BAYCROFT
H. BOND
P. BOND
H. BROWN
J. BROWN
S. BUCHANAN
R. CAMPBELL
T. CARR
J. CONWAY
T. CUMBERLAND
F. DALE
V. DALE
A. DONNELLY
M. DOWNEY
W. DRENNAN
J. DUNN
C. ELLIS
H. WILSON

[second column/deuxième colonne]
C.ELLISON
J.H.IRWIN
F. EVANS
R. EVANS
J.H. EVANS
E. EWING
F. EWING
H. EWING
S. EWING
G. FERGUSON
R. FERGUSON
A. FIELDS
A. FISHER
G. FOSTER
F. FREEMAN
S. FREEMAN
H. GILMOUR
G. GRAHAM
V. GRAHAM
W. HAND
F. HANNA
WILFRED HENDERSON
J. HEYDON
T. HINES
F. HIPWEL
H. HOLMES
R. HOLMES
W .HOLMES
J. HOLT
N. SCOTT

[third column/troisième colonne]
B.HORAN
C. HOUGHTON
R. HURST
W. HURST
T.H. HUTCHINSON
J.D.H. HUTCHINSON
W.JOHNSTON
W. KNIGHT
E. LEAROYD
H. LEAROYD
E. LIGHTFOOT
R. LIGHTFOOT
H. LOUNDES
L. LYNCH
W.A. MCMULLEN
H.S. MARTINDALE
H. MILLS
R.B. MILLS
H. MITCHELL
R.C. MITCHELL
E. MORRISON
C. MOUDER
F. MCCLINTOOK
H. MCGEE
J. MCGILL
N. MCKINLEY
N. MCLAREN
W. MCLAREN
E. MCMAHON

[fourth column/quatrième colonne]
D. NICOL
H. NORTON
A. OAKLEY
J. PATTERSON
JESSIE PATTERSON
W. PEACOCK
C. REYNOLDS
B. ROACH
C. ROGERS
D. ROSS
O. RUSK
E. SCOTT
H. SCOTT
R. SCOTT
F. SCOTT
C. SHAW
A. SMILEY
W. SMILEY
J. SPECK
W. STEELE
J. STEVENS
P. STEVENS
W. STOKES
W. TARGART
G. THORNE
B. TRACEY
E. TRACEY
F. WHALE
E. WHITESIDE
C. WOODMAN

[centre/centre]
THIS TABLET ERECTED BY PUPILS AND EX-PUPILS OF ALLISTON SCHOOL

[back/arrière]

YPRES
ST. ELDI.
SANCTUARY WOOD.
FESTUBERT.
THE SOMME.
VIMY RIDGE.
PASSCHENDAELE.
LENS.
CAMBRAI.
AMIENS.
CAMBRAI.
VALENCIENNES.
MONS.

Ce monument commémoratif est dédié aux personnes qui combattirent et qui perdirent la vie durant la Grande Guerre. Tous les noms y étant inscrits sont ceux des personnes ayant fréquenté l’école. Une plaque de laiton orne le devant du monument commémoratif, alors que le dos porte des gravures des principales batailles de la guerre.

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