Virden War Memorial
The Cenotaph was erected in Victoria Park, in commemoration of people from the local area who served and died during military service. Victoria Park consists of a town block with many trees and large grassed areas, beautiful landscaping and an outdoor band shell. The tall stone pillar has a landscaped surround, and flagpole. The column has a cross carved on one side above the years of the First War, 1918, 1917, 1916, 1915, 1914. In front, embedded in stone, is a real sword. On the flat surface in front of that, YPRES to MONS .
Inscription
First World War
Harold Bailey
Frederick Edward James Bailey
William James Bannatyne
Edward Olauf Frederick Bertleson
Henry Victor Best
Gordon Biggs
Fred Bowden
Frederick Brooks
Archibald Cameron
John Alured Carr
Lorne Edgar Carscadden
Frank Walter Collier
William James Comper
William Herbert Cook
William Henry Corfield
Henry Cottrell DCM
Walter Russell Coutts
Percival Charles Richard Day
James Francis Durham
Wellington Roy Elliott
Larry Michael Farrell
Charles William Fitch
Daniel Leitch McPherson Fleck
Alexander Forsythe
James Hugh Foster
George William Gilby
William Grant
Matilda Ethel Green
George Stanley Grey
Paul Edmund Gunby
William Albert Haywood
Victoria Belle Hennan
John F. H. Ivens
Charles John Ivens
Thomas Henry Jackson
William Jackson
Arthur Edwin James
Charles Robert Johnston
John Walter Jones
John Stanley Joslin
Harry Jeffery
James McLennan Laing
Douglas Ledgerwood
Wilfred Laurier Leech
Herbert Leech
Percy Harold Lobb
Archie Wallace McDermaid
William John McGuffin
Alfred William Manning
Thomas Charles Mead
William Norman Menzies
James Harvey Montgomery
Peter Thomas Moir
Alexander Muir
Cecil Muldrew
Frederick William Maddox
Samuel Paton
Harold Macdonald Pineo
Hugh Ross
William Ross
James Russell
Charles Gordon Sanford
Fred Irwin Simpson
George Ernest Venner
John Vickery
Arthur Russell Warren
Fred G. Warren
Charles K. Weber
Thomas Edwin West
Wilfred Percy Young
Second World War
Name
Leonard Morris Barre
Wallace Llewellyn Berry
Frederick Braybrook
Wilfred David Brown
Spence Roy Carefoot
Bruce Edward Ashton Caw MC & Bar
Alfred Reid Chalmers
Marshall Frederick English
George Cornwall English
William Ashley Forster
Melvin James Gardiner
Arthur Charles Hales
Adam Michael Hamalock
Private Elmer Hastie
Norman A. Hauk
Nelson Stanley Hawes
Raymond Arthur Heaman
James Wesley Irwin
James Martin Kelly
Allison Frank Kilborn
James Victor Koester
Orville Alvin Lamont
Lyle E. Metcalf
Francis Lloyd Milburn
William John Barry McLeod
William Gerald Naylen
Lloyd Charles Powell
Arthur Thelfall Power
George A. Price
Clifford A. Reid
Ernest Charles Rye
William G. E. Simpson
William Lorne Stinson
Monument militaire de Virden
Monument commémoratif militaire répertorié par Anciens Combattants Canada. Aucune description n’est encore disponible.
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