Harvey Watt Cockshutt was killed in the Battle of Mont Sorel on June 2, 1916. The Rev. W.G. Martin, pastor of the Congregational Church officiated at the ceremony to inaugurate a YMCA girls camp in his honour. The beautiful camp was given by Mrs. Cockshutt as a perpetual memorial to her only son.

When the war broke out Harvey Cockshutt’s words were: "I don’t want to go, but I feel it is my duty to go," and he went. On the morning in June 2, he was wounded and his comrades built a parapet of sandbags about him, but the Germans came on and they were obliged to leave him.