Fort Erie Cenotaph

Fort Erie, Ontario

Type

Other

The Fort Erie Cenotaphl is a large marble slab, engraved with the names of the dead, with a statue of a World War One soldier on top. It was installed by the Niagara Parks Commision in a park-like setting, overlooking Lake Erie and the start of the Niagara River. The city of Buffalo, New York sits across the lake. Only a few hundred metres away is the restored Fort Erie, the site of a several historic battles during the War of 1812.

Inscription

[front/devant]

THEY GAVE
THEIR TODAY
FOR OUR
TO-MORROW

WORLD WAR I
1914 - 1918

WORLD WAR II
1939 - 1945

KOREA
1950 - 1953

[right side/côté droit]

1939 - 1945

DONALD A. NIXON
JOHN R. KEE
JACK MCSPADDEN
EARL D. WHITE
ELMER DRANGER
CHARLES PARTIMER
JAMES MOORE
ALLEN W. TROUP
ROSS C. CLOUSTON
JOHN DIETRICH
HARRY R. THYRET
ROBERT R. WALLACE
LLOYD G. ERDMAN
HOWARD E. WARREN
C. BRUCE THOMPSON.

[back/arrière]

1914-1918

OUR HONOURED DEAD

THOMAS LANGSTAFF
GEORGE GASS
HUBERT DEWEY MILLS
WILLIAM ARTHUR SMITH
B. VENZENO
HARRY THOMAS WARDELL
ARTHUR CHARLES PRIOR
CHARLES HUBBARD
GEORGE O'DONNELL
WILLIAM ATKINSON
FRANK DARTON
GORDON FERGUSON
JOHN BYERS
EDWARD FRANCIS H. BAILEY
WILLIAM LOUIS BARNHART
ERNEST PLATO
ALFRED JAMES PARDOE
HERBERT HARRY GEAR
EDWARD JAMES HARE
CHARLES BALL
JAMES ANDREW RUSSELL
JOHN HAROLD RICHMOND
LESLIE EDWARDS
ALFRED JAMES OSBORNE
THOMAS PENGELLEY
JOHN BRIGHT
DONALD GORDON MCLEAN
HENRY GARFIELD CAMPBELL
WILLIAM MACKENDRICK HENRY
MORRIS ROY BUNN
ALFRED INGALLS
LESLIE JAMES YULE
EDWARD SUTHERLAND MALKIN
CHARLES JOHN FICKEL
ROBERT WATSON
CECIL KENDALL
WILLIAM ALBERT RANDALL
JAMES ARTHUR COLIN CAMPBELL
FRANK HALIBURTON RUSSEL

THEIR NAME LIVETH FOREVER MORE

[left side/côté gauche]

1939 - 1945

JAMES E. OSBORN
CARL SAUER
R.D. ROBERTSON
THOMAS DIPIETRO
CARL OSWALD
BEN R. CUNLIFFE
FRED G. THOMPSON
WILLIAM PROW
HARTFORD COOK
GEO D. FITZ-GIBBON
EARL W. LEMCKE
FRANK H. WALDEN
GORDON BARNHART
CHARLES ROSE
DONALD G. LEASK
EARL L.G. SPEAKMAN
ROLAND FISHER
FREDERICK T. GARDNER
JOHN C. WILHELMS