Trail Cenotaph

Trail Cenotaph

Trail, British Columbia

Type

Other

This memorial was sponsored by the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch No. 11. It was presented to the City of Trail in a ceremony held on 11 November 1951, prior to the annual Remembrance Day service. The Royal Canadian Legion committee that administrated the project consisted of: Albert King (Chair) F.E. (Buddy) DeVito (Vice Chair) J.W. Evan (Vice Chair) Mrs. P. Wolfe (Secretary) O.J. Wilson (Member) Charles Conry (Member) The Legion solicited public donations and received the following support: Cash, including corporate and organization donations totalled $932.50. Consolidated Mining & Smelting Co. Ltd. Donated the cement for the base, technical expertise and the bronze work. The City of Trail covered half of the cost of the stone work. D.B. Merry, a building supplier, and Trail Mercantile, a retail store, covered the cost of construction materials. Sharp & Thompson & Berwick & Pratt Architects donated the plans. The memorial consists of a stone and masonry shaft on a cement base surrounded by lawn and curbing. Lights illuminate the tower at night. A flagpole is located in the front lawn area. Bronze plaques with the names of the war dead from the First and Second World Wars and the Korean War are attached to the tower. The memorial is used for the City’s annual Remembrance Day service and for special Legion functions or ceremonies.

Inscription

[upper plaque/plaque du haut]

THE GREAT WAR
1914 ROLL OF HONOUR 1918

[first column/première colonne]
BARNES, W.
BULL, F.
CAMPANO, V.
CARRUTHERS, Kenneth
CARTER, H.
CHAPMAN, A.
CHAICHIO, A.
COLAO, G.
DeFERRO, G.
[second column/deuxième colonne]
DUNBAR, W.
ECCLESHAW, W.
EVANS, A.
GILLESPIE, D.
GUNN, A.
HILL, W.
HURLEY, W.
JAMES, R.
JONES, W.
[third column/troisième colonne]
KIRBY, H.
LUFF, W.
McFARLANE, R.
McDOUGALL, C.
McLEOD, J.
McPHAIL, J.
MARLATT, St. C.
MASON, P.
[fourth column/quatrième colonne]
MILACK, D.
MORGAN, A.
OLIVER, W.
RADAKOVITCH, I.
SHIELDS, D.
VOLPATTI, I.
WEIR, R.

[lower plaque/plaque du bas]

1939-1945

[First column/première colonne]
BAIN, Alexander
BASSO, Belvito
BOND, Mervin
BOWSHER, Norman F.
BRANCH, Francis T.
BRACKENBURY, Wm. T.
BRAZIER, Austin W.
BREEZE, Harold A. A.
BROWN, Harold A.
BUCHANAN, David
BUIE, Robert M.
BURGESS, William
BUTLER, James
CARRUTHERS, Henry R.
CHURCHILL, Randolph S.
CIARELLI, Louis
CLENDENNING, Wm. H.
COLLEY, Robert,
CONNAGHAN, Vernon J.
COOPER, Teddy
COOPER, Walter
CORNFIELD, Edward A.
COUTURE, Stephen E.
CREELMAN, Earl F.
DAWSON, Harold C.
DEWAR, Peter
DIAMOND, John E.
DREVER, Leonard
DRYDEN, John R.
DWYER, Earl S.
EDMUNDS, Howard
ELLISON, Willard
FLEGEL, Gustave,
FORREST, William
[Second column/deuxième colonne]
FOXLEE, Edward W.
FOXLEE, Harold R.
FRASER, John R.
FUNK, David
GIBBON, Donald C.
GREEN, Cyril D.
GREEN, Frank H.
GREGOIRE< Leo J. R.
HALL, Albert E.
HALL, James D.
HARALSON, Oliver J.
HARRISON, Francis A.
HARRISON, James
HEBNER, Clifford
HENSCHEL, Theodore
HILL, Thomas B.
HOBSON, Guy
HOWELL, Edward J.
HUGHES, James R.
HOUSTON, Walter A.
JONES, Radin L.
JOHN, Merlyn
KENNEDY, Clayton
KIRKWOOD, David
KISON, Ward W.
KITCHIN, Jack
KONSCHUH, R. D.
LATHAM, Frank W.
LEES, John C.
LEPSOE, Robert
LEVICK, Thomas
LEWIS, Ivor C.
LITTLE, Douglas M.
LONG, George A.
LOWSON, Clifford
[third column/troisième colonne]
LUNGSTRUM, Edward A.
LOUTIT, Andrew A.
McARTHUR, Dalton
McCRACKEN, Jack
McCANNEY, Patrick
McDIARMID, John C.
McDONALD, Douglas B.
McDONALD, John F.
McFADDEN, Donald H.
McGREGOR, George
McLEOD, John M.
McLEOD, Lawrence H.
McLEOD, Malcolm
McKAY, John M.
McVIE, Jack
MACIE, Roger M.
MARDER, Moie
MARTIN, Bernard W.
MATHEW, Lawerence E.
MILLERSHIP, John C.
MITCHELL, Arthur W.
MORRICE, Walter
NAHORNYK, Wm.
OBERG, Earl H.
OGG, Freddie A. W.
OES, George E.
OUDERKIRK, Earl E.
OUDE-DTEENHOFF, G. R.
PALARDY, J. N.
PEARSON, James N.
POLLON, Joseph R.
QUATRIN, A.
REGIMBAL, Wilfrid H.
RILEY, Wirgie L.
ROSELAND, Arnold
SAPRUNOFF, Sammy
SCHEELER, Andrew F.
SHANNON, Wm. A.
SMITH, Roy
SMITH, Robert F.
SMITH, Wm. B.
SMITH, Wm. R.
SMYTH, Ralph St. G.
SPENCE, Geoffrey,
SPENCER, Gordon E.
STANTON, Wilbur H.
STICKLEY, David W.
ST. JOHN, R.
STOLL, Victor W.
STOTT, Donald
STRACHAN, Wm.
SYMONS, John R.
TEASDALE, George
TEDAVIC, John
THATCHER, Phillip
TULL, Ernest S.
TWADDLE, Donald A.
UNDERWOOD, Jack
VANTINE, Merl
WADDELL, Jack
WALLACE, E.
WESTWOOD, Wilfred
WHITE, Robert B.
WILSON, Donald G.
WILSON, John W.
WOODS, Fred
WRIGHT, James