Prescott Cenotaph

The Prescott Cenotaph honours those who did not return from the two World Wars and those who served in the Korean War.

The cenotaph was originally located at the municipal building on Dibble Street, where is was displayed for 40 years. It was moved to a more prominent place in front of Fort Wellington in 2001, as a joint project of Prescott’s Royal Canadian Legion Branch #97 and Fort Wellington. A poppy garden was added in 2015.

Inscription

[front/devant]

WORLD WAR I
1914 – 1918

[left column/colonne de gauche]

ARTHUR E. BAKER
HOWARD BAKER
PHILIP V. BLACKLOCK
CECIL BOVAIRD
WARD W. BURKE
JOHN H, DAVY
JACOB S. DOYLE
G. HARVEY EWART
IRA H. GLASGOW
ALBERT HURLBERT
ROYAL W. KINGSTON
E. WILLIAM LANE
ROY LINDSAY

[right column/colonne de droite]

JOHN A. MacDONALD
HAROLD P. MacGREGOR
CHARLES H. O’LEARY
GUY C. O’SHEA
GEORGE PATTERSON
EDWARD PATTERSON
JAMES PETERSON
WILLIAM ROBINSON
WILLIAM F. SHARPE
HARRY J. SMITH
JOHN R.W. TYNER
STANLEY W. WARD
WILFRED L. WHITE

WORLD WAR II
1939-1945

[left column/colonne de gauche]

KENNETH N. ARTHURS
RALPH ARTHURS
JOHN BRYTAN
CARL DIETSCHWEILER
GERALD R. EGAN
FREDERICK W. FISHER
MAURICE P. HALPIN
FRANK C. MILLER
GEORGE MILLER
LAWRENCE G. MILLER
JOHN H. MORRIS
A. BARCLAY NEWSOME
ELWOOD POMEROY

[right column/colonne de droite]

THOMAS P. QUINN
ARNOLD RUNNING
ROBERT L. SCOTT
GUY SHAVER
BOWMAN SPERO
GORDON SUTTON
GRENVILLE SWAN
AUTHUR TINDAL
CLARENCE VICKERY
WILLIAM G. VICKERY
ROBERT WEBB
CARL WHITNEY
ALTON J. O’NEIL

AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM

KOREA
1950-1953

[plaque]

First World War Memorial Poppy Garden
In memory of those who gave their lives in the Great War
1914-1918
From you, the torch we catch and hold it high.
We shall never break faith with those who’ve died.
May you rest in peace as these poppies grow.
LEST WE FORGET

Le cénotaphe de Prescott rend hommage aux personnes qui ont perdu la vie pendant les deux Guerres mondiales et à ceux qui ont servi pendant la guerre de Corée.

Le cénotaphe se trouvait, depuis 40 ans, sur les lieux de l’édifice municipal, sur la rue Dibble. Il a été déplacé vers un endroit plus en vue en face du fort Wellington en 2001 dans le cadre d’un projet conjoint de la filiale no 97 (Prescott) de la Légion royale canadienne et le fort Wellington. En 2015, un jardin de coquelicots a été aménagé.

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