Digby Soldiers Cenotaph
Municipality/Province: Digby, NS
Memorial number: 12011-063
Type: Statue (Bronze/Granite)
Address: 61 Water St
Location: Digby County
GPS coordinates: Lat: 44.6243434 Long: -65.7566794
Submitted by: Marilyn Gurney; Sheryl Stanton
The Soldiers Cenotaph was erected in 1921 in memory of the men from Digby who gave their lives for King and Country in the First and Second World Wars, and the Korean Conflict. The collection of funds to finance the War Monument was coordinated by the G.W.V.A.
Inscription found on memorial
[obverse - Soldier on top/vue de face - soldat au sommet]
In memory of
the Men of this Town
who gave their lives
for King and Country
in the Great War
1914-1918
Lieutenant Charles Dayrell Shreve, MC
Corp. Louis Lawrence Churchill
Arnold Morgan
Robert A. Laines
Burwell Hutchinson
William Ensley Hayden
Wilber Shortliffe
George Archer Turnbull
Walter Vantassell
Joseph Hopley Winchester
Leland Fauntleroy Young
Edison Handspiker
William Savary Gilpin
DeVere D'Arcy
Harry Levy
Cyril W. Muise
James Robinson, Jr.
Their name Liveth Forevermore
[reverse/arrière]
IN MEMORY OF
THE MEN OF THIS TOWN
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
FOR KING AND COUNTRY
IN WORLD WAR II
1939 – 1945
RODERICK WILLIAM ABRAMSON
ALFRED JOHN AMERO
HOWARD JOSEPH BLINN
RALPH EATON DAKIN
KENNETH ANGUS DONNELLY
GERALD AUSTIN ELLIS
HOWARD THOMAS FARNSWORTH
WALTER MURRAY MARSHALL
STANLEY SPRAY
LOUIS PHILIP THERIAULT
ROSS GLENDON TURNBULL
ROBERT KENNETH VIDITO
GEORGE ALLEN WILSON
DONALD SMITH WINCHESTER
HENRY RAYMOND WOODMAN
SAMUEL DRIFFIELD WOODMAN
REGINALD WOOF
WILLIAM ARNOLD YORKE
LEO JOHN MELANSON
“THEIR NAMES LIVETH FOR EVERMORE”
[left/gauche]
Merchant Navy
World War I
World War II
At the going
down of the sun
and in the
morning we wil
remember them
[right]
Korea
1950-1953
In Honor of
those who served
and
in memory of
those who died
Lest we Forget
Street view
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