New Glasgow War Memorial

The New Glasgow War Memorial was unveiled on September 25, 1929, in memory of those who lost their lives during the First World War. A Scottish sculptor named Massey Rhind from Edinburgh designed the Highland bagpiper. He fashioned the piper in the regalia of the authentic uniform of all pipers in the Military Service of the British Empire during World War I. The historic War Memorial was first commissioned by the Town of New Glasgow and the New Glasgow Gyro Club. The New Glasgow Gyro, many of whom were veterans, organized a financial drive that resulted in $12,000 being collected. This was a huge sum of money at that time. A citizens committee, including members of the Royal Canadian Legion and the town council, assisted the Gyro Club in selecting and erecting the monument. The beautiful monument has been seen and admired by many thousands of people over the years, and it is the most photographed subject in the area during tourist season. Immigrants from Scotland settled this part of Nova Scotia in 1773, whose largest town is named after the great city of Glasgow. This is where each year, during the Festival of Tartans Celebrations, the sounds of the pipes can be heard among the hills. Therefore, it is fitting that such a monument should be here, reminding us not only of our great heritage, but also, of the many brave men and women who sacrificed their lives for the good of mankind during the First World War. In January of 1997, The New Glasgow War Memorial Fund set out to raise $30,000 to refurbish the War Memorial. Time and vandals have eroded the piper, and many of the names were missing letters. Nelson Monuments of Sussex, New Brunswick, completed work in July of 1997. In addition to replacing the missing letters from the roll of names, they polished the plaque to a shiny bronze and installed a new granite pedestal for the stone.

Inscription

[front/devant]
ISABEL K. CUMMING
MARGARET MARGORIE FRASER
LILLIAS McKAY
WILLIAM T. BECK
FRASER BETTS
JOHN MICHAEL BROWN
MURDOCH ROSS CAMERON
FRANK CAMERON
HUGH A. CAMERON
ALLISTAIR CAMPBELL
HARRY CAVANAGH
HARRY CAVANAGH
WILLIAM EDWARD CHISHOLM
FRANK COBB
JOHN W.R. CROCKETT
JOHN CURRIE
A. HAARVEY DAND
FRED DAVIS
HARRY DEARN
SYLVANUS DEE
GEORGE W. DUNN
STEWART MUIR DUTHIE
FRANK JAMES FRASER
JAMES GIBSON LAURIER FRASER

[bottom/au bas]
TO OUR GLORIOUS DEAD
AND TO THOSE WHO SERVED
1914 1918

[right side/côté droite]
LOUIS FRASER
WARREN FRASER
JAMES DOWNIE FRASER
AUBREY E. GRANT
ERNEST GRANT
WILLIAM H. GRANT
ANGUS GRAY
ALBERT HAYLOR
IVAN HENDERSON
ALBERT EDWARD HICKEN
F.W. HINCHCLIFFE
HARRY C. HORNE
COURTNEY A. HULL
WILLIAM H. JENKINS
PERCY LARTER
HORACE LELACHEUR
EARL LOCKERBY
THOMAS LOGAN
ANDREW LOVE
HAROLD McCULLOCH
HAROLD McDIARMID
ALEXANDER D. McDONALD
DANIEL A. McDONALD
STEWAART HICKEN

[back/arrière]
DANIEL VINCENT McDONALD
RONALD P. McDONALD
W. McEACHERN
DOUGALD McGILLIVRAY
HUGH McGILLIVRAY
IAN C. McGREGOR
ALEXANDER W. MacHARDY
HUGH McISAAC
ALEXANDER R. McKAY
ARTHUR McKAY
ADAM JAMES McKENZIE
J.W. McKENZIE
L.W. McKENZIE
LEO MacKENZIE
ARCHIBALD McLAUGHLIN
J.W. McLAUGHLIN
FRED McLENNAN
D.H. MacLEOD
JAMES D. MacLEOD
JAMES D. MacLEOD
WILLARD L. MacMILLAN
HERBERT McNEIL
DUNCAN H. McPHERSON
D.C. McPHERSON
JOHN P. McQUEEN

[below/en bas]
ERECTED BY THE CITIZENS OF NEW GLASGOW
1929 IN PROUD REMEMBRANCE

[left side/côté gauche]
ALFRED MAKINTOSH
HERBERT MACKINTOSH
W. HAYWARD MACKINTOSH
ROBERT A. MUIR
LILFORD S. MULLINS
HARCOURT A. MURRAY
WILLIAM NICHOLSON
GEORGE V. PASS
WILLIAM PETTIFER
RODERICK C. PORTER
JOHN HENRY ROGERS
HUGH ROSS
BOWMAN ROSS
WILFRID E. STANCOMBE
MAXWELL STEVENS
ROLAND J.B. STEVENS
GEORGE SYLVESSTER
GEORGE SYLVIA
DONALD THOMPSON
GRANT THOMPSON
R. DAWSON TUPPER
FRED E. WARD
GEORGE WILSON WHITE

Ce mémorial a été dévoilé le 25 septembre 1929 en hommage à ceux qui ont péri durant la Première Guerre mondiale. La sculpture du cornemuseur Highland est un design de Massey Rhind, d’Edinbourg, qui le modela sur un uniforme authentique propre à tous les cornemuseurs du service militaire de l’Empire britannique, durant cette guerre. Ce monument historique a été commandé par la ville de New Glasgow et le New Glasgow Gyro Club. Les vétérans de ce club organisèrent une levée de fonds qui rapporta 12 000$, somme énorme pour le temps. Un comité de citoyens, incluant les membres de la Légion royale canadienne et du Conseil municipal, aidèrent au choix et à l’érection du monument. Vu par des milliers de personnes, ce mémorial est le sujet le plus photographié de la région durant la saison du tourisme. Des immigrants de l’Écosse vinrent en 1773 s’établir dans cette partie de la Nouvelle-Écosse, dont la plus grande ville rappelle le nom de la grande ville de Glasgow. À chaque année, durant les célébrations du festival des tartans, on peut entendre le son des cornemuses. En janvier 1997, le New Glasgow War Memorial Fund entreprit une levée de fonds de 30 000$ afin de restaurer le mémorial. Nelson Monuments de Sussex du Nouveau-Brunswick termina les travaux en juillet de la même année. Les gens remplacèrent les lettres manquantes dans le tableau d’honneur, polirent la plaque et installèrent un nouveau piédestal en granit pour la pierre.

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