Chesley Cenotaph

Built to commemorate the war dead of the First World War, remembered on a brass plaque, with the names of battles engraved on the sides of the monument. A plaque commemorating the Second World War was added later.

Information taken from Tim Laye’s blog, Ontario War Memorials

Inscription

[Front/Devant]

[First brass plaque/Première plaque en laiton]

ROLL OF HONOUR

DAVID SCOBIE
HAROLD GARDNER – JOSEPH HAROLD McNEEL
GORDON CRUIKSHANK McKELVIE – JOHN YOUNG
SIDNEY HOOEY – EDWARD BURDEN
ERNEST PARSONS – JOHN MALCOLM STEWART
HAROLD HARRISON – JOHN MILLER DOUGLAS
JAMES M. SMALL – DOUGLAS JAYE
HERBERT A. JOHNSTON – WILLIAM ANSTEAD
DAVID HETHERINGTON – JAMES AGNEW
WILLIAM McLAGGAN – WM. EARL FOSTER
ERNEST WRIGHT – THOMAS PERCY JOHNSTON
DANIEL COCKLIN – ARTHUR LINGE
ROBERT WELLINGTON FOSTER – JOHN WOODS
JOHN A. POUND – ROBERT JOHN GRAY
JOHN KINCAID – HERBERT WHITMAN
ALBERT KNAPP – WILLIAM W. HAMMOND
JOHN HERMAN BECKER – JOHN R. BLACKBURN
SAMUEL BALDWIN WOODBRIDGE
GEORGE GREEN – JAMES DOWNING STEWART
HERBERT STEWART FINN – SAMUEL MELVILLE DAVISON

[Engraved in stone/ Gravé dans la pierre]

TO THE IMMORTAL HONOUR OF
THE MEN OF CHESLEY AND
VICINITY WHO FELL IN THE
GREAT WAR. THIS MEMORIAL
IS DEDICATED IN PROUD AND
GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE.

PRO PATRIA
1914 – 1918

[Second brass plaque/ Deuxième plaque en laiton]

IN MEMORY OF THE MEN OF
CHESLEY AND DISTRICT WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
IN WORLD WAR II 1939 – 1945

DUNCAN ANDERSON
WILBERT BOLTZ
CECIL B.P. BRUEGEMAN
WILLIAM DOYLE
W.A. FOSTER
HARRY HUGHES

RAY JACKSON
KENNETH W. LIEBECK
MILLARD LIEBECK
EDWARD G. McCORRY
DONALD McKILLOP
PETER McRORIE

GEORGE NICHOL
GORDON POWELL
GRAHAM SHOULDICE
THOMAS SUTCLIFFE
LORNE STODDART
CLARENCE STODDART

W. NORMAN STEEDS
LESLIE THOMSON

[Left side/Côté gauche]

PASSCHENDAELE

YPRES

SANCTUARY
WOOD

AMIENS

FESTUBERT

TO PERPETUATE
IN THE HEARTS OF PEOPLE
IDEALS OF JUSTICE, FREEDOM
SACRIFICE AND PEACE

[Rear/ En arrière]

THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD
AS WE THAT ARE LEFT GROW OLD
AGE SHALL NOT WITHER THEM
NOR THE YEARS CONDEMN
AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN
AND IN THE MORNING
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM

[Right side/ Côté droite]

VIMY RIDGE

MONS

THE SOMME

CAMBRAI

ARRAS

TO COMMEMORATE
THE UNCONQUERABLE VALOUR
OF THE CANADIANS WHO FOUGHT
IN THE GREAT WAR

Le monument a été construit pour rendre hommage aux victimes de la Première Guerre mondiale; leurs noms sont inscrits sur une plaque en laiton et ceux des batailles sont gravés sur les côtés du monument. Une plaque commémorant la Seconde Guerre mondiale a été ajoutée plus tard.

Information tirée du blogue de Tim Laye, Ontario War Memorials

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