Basswood Cenotaph

After the First World War , the people of Basswood and District remembered those who had lost their lives in the service of King and Country by inscribing their names on a War Memorial Cenotaph erected in the centre of the village. Following the Second World War the names of those from the District who lost their lives were added to the Memorial. The Honour Roll for the seventeen men who made the supreme sacrifice in the First World War and six in the Second World War is inscribed.

Inscription

Basswood – Cadurcis – Fairmount Honor Roll
1914-1918

Cassidy, Thomas
McDonald, Robert
Curwen, Henry
McLean, Lauchlan
Day, William
McMillian, Neil
Gibsen, William
McPhail, Neil
Hollett, Charles
Morrison, Alexander
Larcombe, Edgar
Nixon, Edmund
Matheson, Donald
Paine, Roy D.
McCullough, James
Richardson, Robert
Warwich, William

Basswood – Cadurcis – Fairmount Honor Roll
1939-1945

Anderson, Alexander
Makepeace, Thomas
Blackwood, James R.
McLabb, Clark
Feir, Walter
Reid, MacKenzie

They Gave Their Tomorrow
For Our Today

Let Us Remember Them

Suite à la Première Guerre mondiale, les citoyens du district de Basswood décidèrent de rendre hommage aux dix-sept hommes de l’endroit qui ont donné leur vie au combat durant le conflit, en érigeant un monument commémoratif au centre du village. Après la Seconde Guerre mondiale, on a ajouté les noms des six soldats originaires de la localité qui y ont péri.

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