Western Canada College War Memorial

Erected by the Western Canada College (now Western Canada High School), this memorial is dedicated to its students who were killed during the First World War and who served during the Second World War, the Korean War and on peacekeeping duty. The front of the memorial bears a cross of sacrifice embedded into the granite.

George Fordyce (1880-1944) designed the War Memorial at Western Canada College, 1927.

Inscription

[front/devant]

1914 1918

THIS MONUMENT COMMEMORATES THOSE BOYS OF WESTERN CANADA COLLEGE WHO AT THE DAWN OF THEIR MANHOOD DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR

GRAHAM E. ADAM
R. BLAKE ALLAN
T. STEPHENS ALLAN
JOHN TURNER BONE
E. LYLE BERKINSHAW
A.G. CAMPBELL
KENNETH CORSON
JOHN FRANCIS COSTIGAN
S. COWES
STANLEY COWAN
ROBERT S. CRAIG
STUART R. CUTHBERT
G. DICKINSON
THEODORE DICKSON
C.D. DOUGLAS
JOHN NORRIS EATON
A. FITZHERBERT
DOUGLAS FULTON
RUDOLPH GAETZ
W. GARRETT
L.G. GOLDING
TERENCE SMYTHE HALL
H.A. HARDING
R. HARRIS
I. INGRAM
ROLAND HOPE JOHNSTON
R. JOWETT
FRANK LAWSON
CHARLES M. LAWSON
JOHN MANUEL
FREDERICK G. MARSHALL
F.W. EDWARD MAUNSELL
HAROLD MUSGROVE
STEWART MCTAVISH
T. MCFARLAND
A.S. OLIVE
T. PRATT
F. PURVIS
ALEXANDER G. PARLBY
H. PARSLOW
THOMAS RILEY
HAROLD SAYRE
WALLACE SHARPE
CHARLES SUTTON
GEORGE WILLIAM TISDALE
STANLEY WRIGHT
R.W. WEBSTER
PERCY YOUNG

[right side/côté droit]

KOREA

1950 – 1953

[back or left side/arrière ou côté gauche]

DEDICATED TO THE STUDENTS AND STAFF OF WESTERN CANADA HIGH SCHOOL WHO SERVED IN WORLD WAR II, THE KOREAN CONFLICT AND AS PEACEKEEPERS

Ce mémorial, érigé par le collège Western Canada (aujourd’hui l’école secondaire Western Canada), est dédié aux élèves de l’établissement qui ont été tués pendant la Première Guerre mondiale, à ceux qui ont combattu pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale et la guerre de Corée, et à ceux qui ont participé à des missions de maintien de la paix. Sa façade s’orne d’une Croix du sacrifice gravée dans le granit.

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