Penticton Cenotaph
Municipality/Province: Penticton, BC
Memorial number: 59016-013
Type: Granite obelisk
Address: 100 Main Street
Location: Veterans Memorial Park
GPS coordinates: Lat: 49.5020178 Long: -119.5940903
Submitted by: Randy Manuel; Don Johnson, Director
Erected in 1920 by the Great War Veterans' Association, this memorial is dedicated to the local war dead of the First and Second World Wars.
Inscription found on memorial
[west side/côté ouest]
TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND THE SPLENDID MEMORY OF PENTICTON MEN WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918
"THEIR NAME LIVETH FOREVERMORE"
[plaque, west side/plaque, côté ouest]
IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THE MEN OF PENTICTON AND DISTRICT WHO SACRIFICED THEIR LIVES IN THE WAR 1939-1945
[north side/côté nord]
THE FOLLOWING
CANADIAN AND IMPERIAL TROOPS
WERE REPRESENTED BY THE MEN TO WHOSE HONOUR
THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED
A.D. 1920
ROYAL AIR FORCE, ROYAL FIELD ARTILLERY, CANADIAN FIELD ARTILLERY, ROYAL FUSILIERS, ESSEX REGIMENT, PRINCESS PATRICIA'S CAN. L.I., 2ND CAN. MOUNTED RIFLES, 8TH CANADIAN INFANTRY, 10TH CANADIAN INFANTRY, 13TH CANADIAN INFANTRY, 7TH CANADIAN INFANTRY, 15TH CANADIAN INFANTRY, 25TH CANADIAN INFANTRY, 29TH CANADIAN INFANTRY, 45TH CANADIAN INFANTRY, 47TH CANADIAN INFANTRY, 50TH CANADIAN INFANTRY, 54TH CANADIAN INFANTRY, 78TH CANADIAN INFANTRY, 102ND CANADIAN INFANTRY, ROYAL ARMY SERVICE CORPS
[plaque, north side/plaque, côté nord]
NICE J.
OLSEN R.
OLSEN R.M.
PALETHORPE D.M.
PEARSON G.
PENROSE W.
PHIPPS G.
PROSSER L.
ROATH N.
ROBERTS A.
ROUTH M.
ROUTH P.
SAMMET J.H.
SINCLAIR W.
STEENSON S.W.
SUTHERLAND W.F.
TAIT A.S.
THOMAS T.L.
UNDERDOWN G.E.
UNDERDOWN G.
WATERMAN G.V.
WHISKIN D.R.
WYATT E.L.
[east side, upper plaque/côté est, plaque du haut]
DULCE ET DECORUM
EST
PRO PATRIA MORI
KILLED
ADAMS, LEONARD
ADAMSON, JAMES
ADEAM, W.C.
ALEXANDER, J.
BALLINGALL, J.P.
BIRD, RODERICK
BOWEN, H.T.
BROADBENT, S.
BROWN, ALLISTER
BURGESS, H.
CHAMPION, JOHN
COOPER, H.T.
CRAIG, GEORGE
CROUCH, FRED
DALRYMPLE, J.W.
DEBECK, G.C.
EADIE, SHAVER
ENGLAND, R.H.
FARRAR, JAMES
FENN, CECIL
FERRIER, A.H.B.
FALKERSON, F.E.
GILLESPIE, M.
GRAHAM, J.H.
GRIEVE, ALEXANDER
HINCKSMAN, JACK W.
HUNNABLE, C.H.
IMPETT, LESLIE
JACKSON, F.M.
KEDDELL, F.H.
LUNN, GODFREY
MAUNDRELL, G.H.
MCCOY, J.H.
MERRILL, V.
MORGAN, L.N.
NESBITT, W.J.
NICOL, J.C.
OSLER, RALPH
PATTERSON, R.M.
PETERS, F.W.
PRIEST, FRED
RAINCOCK, H.
SERAFINI, F.
SHAW, P.B.
TAYLOR, W.E.
TOMLIN, C.J.
WANLESS, R.G.
WAUGH, ADAM
DIED ON SERVICE
GRASSING, C.
KIRKPATRICK, F.
LUKE, L.E.
MCDONALD, A.
NELSON, MILFORD
ROADHOUSE, R.
TAYLOR, G.
WALKER, JOHN
DIED
CANNINGS, W.
POWER RICHARD
[east side, lower plaque/côté est, plaque du bas]
GUTTRIDGE, N.H.
HADDEN, W.
HARROW, C.
HILLIARD, D.B.
JENSEN, E.H.
JOHNSON, T.
KIDSON, F.W.
LECKIE, J.C.; LIVINGSTONE, A.A.; LOUISE, V.; LOYIE, A.; LULL, R.; MACDONALD, A.; MACDOUGALL, A.K.; MCBEATH, R.; MCCARTHY, W.R.; MCDOUGALL, R.G.; MCINTOSH, J.; MCPHEE, J.A.; MCQUISTIN, B.; MCRORRIE, L.; MILLERSHIP, J.; MITCHELL, J.; MOORE, G.; MURRAY, R.
[south side/côté sud]
"SEEK YE OUT OF THE BOOK OF THE LORD AND READ" ISAIAH XXIV, 8
"GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN THAN THIS THAT A MAN LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS," JOHN XV, 13
"FOR THE TRUMPET SHALL SOUND AND THE DEAD SHALL BE RAISED INCORRUPTIBLE", I COR., XV, 57
[plaque, south side/plaque, côté sud]
ARCHER R.; ATKINSON R.V.; BEAMES D.; BEASLEY T.; BRUCE D.; BULL L.; BURTON T.; CAULFIELD W.J.; CHERRY F.A.; CHRISTIE R.G.; CLARK J.E.; COLDRON C.; CRAWFORD T.; DONER A.; DUNNE W.H.; EAST J.D.; EAST M.G.; EAST R.; EVANS W.J.; FINCH G.; FLETCHER F.; FORSTER R.H.; FRENCH A.; GIBBS J.A.; GLADWIN E.; GOODWIN D.W.
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