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Canadian Bank of Commerce Great War Plaque

Municipality/Province: New Westminster, BC

Memorial number: 59013-002

Type: Plaque

Address: 544 Columbia Street

Location: Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce

GPS coordinates: Lat: 49.2034602   Long: -122.9074986

Submitted by: Victoria Edwards

In addition to the monument at its head office in Toronto, the Canadian Bank of Commerce honoured employees from each branch who served in the First World War. This plaque was commissioned shortly after the war and dedicated to the bank's 1701 employees who served in the war, 321 laid down their lives. The names of 13 employees of the New Westminster Canadian Bank of Commerce who served in the war are listed on the plaque.

The plaque features the caduceus logo of the bank - two snakes winding around a winged staff at the upper left, and two poppies intertwined with a symbolic olive branch at the lower right. The Canadian Bank of Commerce went to great lengths to commemorate its staff that served in the war including a two-volume book of staff profiles and accounts of their war experiences.


Inscription found on memorial

IN MEMORY OF 1701 MEN OF THE CANADIAN
BANK OF COMMERCE WHO SERVED IN
THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918

IN MEMORY OF 1701 MEN OF THE CANADIAN BANK OF COMMERCE
WHO SERVED IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918

GNR R.J. BEATTY
LT W. BRUCE
GNR F.R. DUNCANSON
2ND LT G.B. PINLAY
3 PTE A.G.H. GODWIN
GNR W.K. GOODING
*PL CADET R.W.R. LITCHFIELD
CAPT A.B.F. LLOYD
C S.M.W. MURRAY
LT J.A. MCGREGOR MC MM
DVR E.G. SHADWELL
GNR R. TAYLOR
LT J.C.E. WALKER

NEW WESTMINSTER
BRANCH

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