St. James Parish First World War Plaque
The St. James Parish First World War Plaque is mounted on a marble base surmounted by a Celtic cross with three symbolic flags on each side. The attribution in the lower right corner is unreadable. The plaque was dedicated and unveiled at a special evening service on January 16, 1921. The bronze plate was cast by the Structural Bronze and Iron Company, Toronto, and the marble base was provided by Stenhouse and Marshall of Perth.
Inscription
1914 – 1918
In memory of the men of St. James Parish
who gave their lives in the Great War
Robert Frederick Bourne 45th Battn
Hospital St. Pol
April 4th 1917
Andrew Ronald Gamble 21st Battn
Passchandaele
Nov 3rd 1917
Basil Lees Inderwick 17th Battn
Salisbury Plains
Jan 23rd 1915
William J Joynt 2nd Battn
Ypres
April 22nd 1915
George Leggett 21st Battn
Passchandaele
Nov 3rd 1917
Shirley J. MacDonnell 5th C.F. Amb.
Etaples
May 19th 1918
Phillip D. MacDonnell Munitions
Trenton
Nov 30th 1917
J. Eric Meighen 32nd Battery
Passchandaele
Nov 29th 1917
Thomas J McKenny 61st Battn
Somme
Nov 6th 1918
James Frederick McVeety PPCLI
Arras
Aug 26th 1918
B Harman Warren 8th C.F. Amb
Arras
Aug 28th 1918
James Clyde Wilson 3rd Battn
Passchandaele
Nov 7th 1917
And in honour of those who served
* Gordon E. Ball DCM
C.C. Inderwick
Reuben Phillips
* Wesley S. Ball
* E.H. Jewett
Harold Pitts
William Ball
Garnet King
Wm Arthur Relyea
* William T. Beatty
William J. Loan
* James Roberts
Boyd A. Burke
J.L.P. McLaren
Lloyd Roberts
* Dauphin C. Blair
* Gordon W. Mitchell
Willis H. Roberts
E. Broderick
* George O. Meighen
John Richardson
* Arthur Graham Code
* Reginald A. Meighen
Colin B. Sewell
* Allan Leslie Code
J.A. McMaster
R. Stephenson Smith
Harold M. Code
H. Dalton McMaster
* Herbert J. Wilson
J.E. DeHertel
* Thomas A. Moore
Thomas B. Wilson
E. Dunford
* Robert Norbury
W. Creighton Wilson
Arthur Fowler
* Frederick A. Orr
George T. Wilson
P.S.D. Harding
William Perry
H.A. Wright
John F.M. Inderwick
S.B. Wright
Thomas Moffatt
* Wounded or gassed
Nursing Sisters
Gladys L. Code
A. Edna McMaster
Kathleen D. Shaw
“We have done that which was our duty to do”
Erected as a grateful tribute by
the members of this congregation
Plaque de la Première Guerre mondiale de la paroisse de St. James
La plaque de la Première Guerre mondiale de la paroisse de St. James est montée sur une base de marbre surmontée d’une croix celtique dotée de trois drapeaux symboliques de chaque côté. La dédicace dans le coin inférieur droit est illisible. La plaque a été dédiée et dévoilée lors d’une soirée spéciale le 16 janvier 1921. La plaque de bronze a été coulée par la Structural Bronze and Iron Company de Toronto et la base de marbre a été fournie par Stenhouse and Marshall de Perth.
Le texte de l’inscription figure dans la section anglaise.