West Carleton Cenotaph

The West Carleton Cenotaph is located in a municipal park, and is a black granite structure with a bronze sculpture of a sitting soldier taking a few quiet moments to read (and re-read) a letter from home amid the chaos and rubble of war.

The sculpture was made by Ron Cowle, and employed Vanderberg and Wilderboer architects. In early 2011, Stuart Hodge set out to create a cenotaph to be located in Carp, with the Carp Business Improvement Area receiving funding of up to $50,000 of the $200,000 cost through the Community War Memorial Program. The cenotaph features a plaque inscribed with the names of 50 men and women of the West Carleton area who died in the Worlds Wars.

Inscription

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World War I

Private Charles Peter Beedie – Bedfordshire Regiment
Private Walter Johnson Bishop – Quebec Regiment
Lance Corporal Henry Boucher – Central Ontario Regiment
Private Alexander Clanachan – Central Ontario Regiment
Private James Leyton Dixon Davis – Eastern Ontario Regiment
Private Robert Lorne Falls – Eastern Ontario Regiment
Lieutenant Thomas Harold Fennell – British Columbia Regiment
Private Robert Byron Guy – Canadian Machine Gun Corps
Private Harry Jones
Sergeant Alexander King – Eastern Ontario Regiment
Lieutenant Ewen McLaughlin – Canadian Field Artillery
Lieutenant Thayer Vincent Milford – Western Ontario Regiment
Private Richard Franklin Mooney – 1st Canadian Mounted Rifles
Sergeant Charles Hamnett Pinhey – Eastern Ontario Regiment
Lieutenant Calvin Potters – Canadian Garrison Artillery
Private George Sales – Manitoba Regiment
Major Harold Archibald Scott – 4th Canadian Mounted Rifles (2nd Central Ontario Regiment)
Private Ledger Sparks – Canadian Expeditionary Force
Gunner James Wallace Wishart – Canadian Field Artillery
Sergeant Francis Lloyd Younghusband – Manitoba Regiment

World War II

Corporal Maxwell James Armitage – RCAF
Flying Officer Royden Garfield Bradley – RCAF
Able Seaman Robert Ansley Cavanagh – Royal Canadian Naval Volunteer Reserve
Corporal Allan Bruce Craig – Royal Canadian Provost Corps
Trooper Frederick Forbes Dalgity – Royal Canadian Dragoons
Flying Officer Howard Elfric Davis – RCAF
Rifleman William john Falls – Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada
Flight Sergeant Adam Kidd Hodgins – RCAF
Flying Officer John Armstrong Johnston – RCAF
Sergeant Mona Ethelyn McBride – Canadian Women’s army Corps
Flight Sergeant Thomas Cecil Mulligan – RCAF
Warrant Officer John Milton Potter – RCAF
Lieutenant Pitman Elwood Scharfe – Royal Canadian Corps of Signals
Sergeant Raymond Reid Riddell – RCAF
Lieutenant William Gordon Thomas – Princess Louise Dragoon Guards
Warrant Officer Donald Alexander Watson – RCAF

Vietnam

Lance Corporal Gordon Patterson Eadie – USMC

Le cénotaphe de West Carleton se trouve dans un parc municipal. Il est composé d’une structure en granit noir surmontée d’une sculpture en bronze représentant un soldat assis, prenant une pause pour lire (et relire) une lettre de sa famille, au milieu du chaos et des décombres de la guerre.

La sculpture est l’œuvre de Ron Cowle, tandis que la conception du cénotaphe a été confiée à la firme d’architectes Vanderberg & Wilderboer. Ce projet a vu le jour grâce aux efforts de Stuart Hodge qui, dès le début de 2011, avait entrepris les démarches visant à ériger un cénotaphe à Carp. La zone d’amélioration commerciale de Carp a ainsi pu recevoir jusqu’à 50 000 $ des 200 000 $ nécessaires à la concrétisation du projet par le biais du Programme d’aide à l’édification de monuments commémoratifs dans les collectivités. Le cénotaphe comporte une plaque sur laquelle sont inscrits les noms des 50 hommes et femmes de la région de West Carleton qui ont péri au cours des deux guerres mondiales.

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