Oro-Medonte Memorial

Oro-Medonte, Ontario

Type

Other

This cenotaph was built in 1921, a tall white marble shaft, dedicated to those you gave their lives in the First World War. A brass symbol of a Canadian maple leaf adorns the top.

In 1947, the names of those who perished in the Second World War were engraved on the back of the cenotaph.

Inscription

[front/devant]
THESE BRAVE MEN
OF ORO TOWNSHIP
DIED FOR HUMANITY
IN
THE GREAT WAR

HONOUR ROLL

JAMES LITTLE CHAUNCEY BURTON
WILLIAM BRAMBLE JOHN STOREY
THOMAS ROSS HAMILTON MITCHELL
EDWARD MCHUGH ARTHUR BELL
JOHN COOK SILVESTER HERBERT
ARTHUR FORRESTER WALLACE KEY
OSCAR WISER JAMES PEARSALL
GILBERT MCARTHUR JOHN VESSEY
JOHN MCARTHUR PETER MCARTHUR
NORMAN DICKER BERNARD MITCHELL
JOSEPH PEMBERTON JOHN BEATON
ALEX H. MCCUAIG NORMAN WEARING
HAROLD PEARSALL WALTER R. MALCOLM
REUBEN CRAWFORD WM. O'CONNELL

THEIR NAME LIVETH FOREVER MORE

[right side/droit]
VIMY RIDGE
PASSCHENDAELE
AMIENS
ARRAS
DROCOURT
DURY
BOURLON WOOD

[back/arrière]
CANADA

1939-1945
SECOND
WORLD WAR

HONOUR ROLL

BARNES HAROLD E.
CLARKE ARTHUR K.
CLARKE EDWARD A.
DOUGLAS ALBERT
HENSON ROBERT D.
MILLER RONALD O.
PILKEY JOHN D.
SAMPSON RAYMOND L.
WALKER WILLIAM G.
WRIGLEY GORDON

[left side/côté gauche]
YPRES
ST. JULIEN
SANCTUARY WOOD
ST. ELOI
COURCELETTE
SOMME