Lieutenant Alexis Hannum Helmer Plaque

This brass plaque at Dominion-Chalmers United Church is dedicated to the memory of Alexis Hannum Helmer, whose death was the inspiration for John McCrae’s poem, “In Flanders Fields”. It was erected by the parishioners of Dominion Methodist Church (now Dominion-Chalmers United Church), sometime after the First World War.

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In loving memory of Alexis Hannum Helmer
Lieut 2^nd Battery 1^st Field Artillery Brigade
Canadian Expeditionary Force
Fell in action near Yprs May 2^nd 1915
Aged 22 years

“Be God’s gentleman and the King’s gentleman”