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Son of Lemont and Laura Etta Nodwell, of Norton, New Brunswick.
Brother of Private Hallett Lemont Nodwell who died on March 29, 1918 while serving with the 5th Canadian Mounted Rifles (Quebec Regiment).
Digital gallery of Private Aubrey Leroy Nodwell
Digital gallery of
Private Aubrey Leroy Nodwell
When the picture was taken in unknown.<P>
His brother Hallett also served in the same regiment and was killed two years later.
Digital gallery of
Private Aubrey Leroy Nodwell
Digital gallery of
Private Aubrey Leroy Nodwell
Belle Isle Regional High School - 'Lest We Forget - Springfield, New Brunswick'<P>
In the Spring of 2008, the Grade 11 Modern History students at Belle Isle Regional High School completed biographies for eighteen First World War soldiers. Their assignment was part of the 'Lest We Forget' project initiated by Blake Seward, a history teacher, in Smiths Falls, Ontario.<P>
The students researched individuals from Norton, New Brunswick who died while serving in the First World War. There are 44 names listed on the local cenotaph, Riverbank Memorial and it is their intention to continue this project until students have completed biographies on all the individuals listed. Their teacher, Stephen Wilson, then intends to research the soldiers from the Second World War.
Digital gallery of
Private Aubrey Leroy Nodwell
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Private Aubrey Leroy Nodwell
Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
Digital gallery of
Private Aubrey Leroy Nodwell
Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
Digital gallery of
Private Aubrey Leroy Nodwell
From the Saint John (New Brunswick) Daily Telegraph newspaper c.1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
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When the picture was taken in unknown.<P> His brother Hallett also served in the same regiment and was killed two years later.
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Belle Isle Regional High School - 'Lest We Forget - Springfield, New Brunswick'<P> In the Spring of 2008, the Grade 11 Modern History students at Belle Isle Regional High School completed biographies for eighteen First World War soldiers. Their assignment was part of the 'Lest We Forget' project initiated by Blake Seward, a history teacher, in Smiths Falls, Ontario.<P> The students researched individuals from Norton, New Brunswick who died while serving in the First World War. There are 44 names listed on the local cenotaph, Riverbank Memorial and it is their intention to continue this project until students have completed biographies on all the individuals listed. Their teacher, Stephen Wilson, then intends to research the soldiers from the Second World War.
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Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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Remembering brothers lost … Brothers In Arms Memorial, Zonnebeke, BE … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens … May 2022
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From the Saint John (New Brunswick) Daily Telegraph newspaper c.1918. Submitted for the project Operation Picture Me
In the Books of Remembrance
Commemorated on:
Page 142 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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MENIN GATE (YPRES) MEMORIAL Belgium
The Menin Gate Memorial is situated at the eastern side of the town of Ypres (now Ieper) in the Province of West Flanders, on the road to Menin and Courtrai. It bears the names of 55,000 men who were lost without trace during the defence of the Ypres Salient in the First World War. Designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield and erected by the Imperial (now Commonwealth) War Graves Commission, it consists of a Hall of Memory", 36.6 metres long by 20.1 metres wide. In the centre are broad staircases leading to the ramparts which overlook the moat, and to pillared loggias which run the whole length of the structure. On the inner walls of the Hall, on the side of the staircases and on the walls of the loggias, panels of Portland stone bear the names of the dead, inscribed by regiment and corps. Carved in stone above the central arch are the words:
TO THE ARMIES OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE WHO STOOD HERE FROM 1914 TO 1918 AND TO THOSE OF THEIR DEAD WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE.
Over the two staircases leading from the main Hall is the inscription:
HERE ARE RECORDED NAMES OF OFFICERS AND MEN WHO FELL IN YPRES SALIENT BUT TO WHOM THE FORTUNE OF WAR DENIED THE KNOWN AND HONOURED BURIAL GIVEN TO THEIR COMRADES IN DEATH.
The dead are remembered to this day in a simple ceremony that takes place every evening at 8:00 p.m. All traffic through the gateway in either direction is halted, and two buglers (on special occasions four) move to the centre of the Hall and sound the Last Post. Two silver trumpets for use in the ceremony are a gift to the Ypres Last Post Committee by an officer of the Royal Canadian Artillery, who served with the 10th Battery, of St. Catharines, Ontario, in Ypres in April 1915."
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