Victoria Park Memorial Gates
These gates to Victoria Park were unveiled on 1 August 1948 by the Business and Professional Women’s Club of Cobourg in memory of the “Cobourg boys” killed during the Second World War.
Inscription
[plaque/plaque]
ERECTED TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THE BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS CLUB OF COBOURG AUG 1ST 1948 AND THE NAMES OF THOSE COBOURG BOYS THAT DIED IN 1939 TO 1945
[front right post]
VICTORIA
PARK
[left side of right post]
TO THE FALLEN
1939-1945
- BEACH, ROY F.
- BOLSTER, JOHN
- BOUNDRY, ALIAN
- BOSWELL, DAVID D.
- BOWEN, HENRY L.
- BRADBURY, CLIFFORD D.
- BROWN, RALPH
- BULGER, LLOYD
- CREIGHTON, JOHN
- CLEMENT, ROGER
- CHAPMAN, JOHN
- DENTON, DOUGLAS
- DREWRY, FREDERICK W.
- EDWARDS, ROBERT
- FICHT, DONALD
- FLESCH, ARNOLD, L.
- GALLAGHER, GERALD
- HAYWARD, PETER
- HIE, ELWOOD
- STEWART, DAVID
- JACOBSON, CHARLES M.
- LEETHAM, HARRY
- LONSBERRY, FRED
- MEDHURST, GEORGE
- MITCHELLE, EUGENE
- MCDONNELL, MURRAY E.
- MCGUIRE, HARRY F.
- MCIVOR, ELGIN
- MCKENZIE, DONALD F.
- MCMURDO, JOHN
- NICHOLSON, ALLAN L.
- PAGE, DONALD
- PHILLLIPS, CAMERON
- ROLLINGS, WILLIAM A.
- SCHLEIHAUF, HOMER
- TITFORD C, K. (BILL)
- THOMPSON, ALEX
- WAGHORN, JACK
- WHYTE, LLOYD
[front left post]
VICTORIA
PARK
[right side of left post]
THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD AS WE
THAT ARE LEFT GROW OLD
AGE SHALL NOT WEARY THEM NOR
THE YEARS CONDEMN
AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN
AND IN THE MORNING
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
ERECTED TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND IN GRATEFUL MEMORY BY
THE BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL
WOMEN’S CLUB OF COBOURG
AUGUST 1, 1948
Portail commémoratif du parc Victoria
Ces portes du parc Victoria ont été dévoilées le 1er août 1948 par le Business and Professional Women’s Club de Cobourg, en mémoire des “Cobourg Boys” tués durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale.
Le texte de l’inscription figure dans la section anglaise.