New Brunswick

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NORTON BRANCH # 76 ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION

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IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF OUR COMRADES WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN THE CAUSE OF FREEDOM

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IN HONOR OF
THESE MEN WHO GAVE
THEIR LIVES FOR US IN
THE GREAT WAR
1914 - 1918

• JOHN ASHE
• HARRY BEECH
• ALLAN W. BELL
• JOHN J. BLOOMFIELD
• HORACE BROWN
• W. HARRY BYRANT
• JOHN CALDWELL
• HERBERT M. CAMPBELL
• WELDON CLARK
• JOHN CORBITT
• W. HEBER HALL
• FRED HAYES
• ERNEST G. HICKS
• MURRAY JAMIESON
• E. D. KEIRSTEAD
• CHARLES KERLEE
• ROBERT H. LONG
• MURRAY MACKNIGHT
• PATRICK H. MCCREARY
• ALFRED MCCUTCHEON
• FRED MCDONOUGH
• PERCY W. MCFARLANE
• ARTHUR F. MCNAIR
• PERCY L. MYERS
• HARRY MYLES
• THOMAS NEWBURY
• AUBREY NODWELL
• HALLETT NODWELL
• ERIC R. PARLEE
• HAROLD G. PEARSDON
• RALPH B. RAYMOND
• HAROLD G. RAYMOND
• JOHN H. RUPERT
• D. WESLEY ROBINSON
• RALPH N. SECORD
• ETHELBERT R. SHARPE
• WILLIAM THOMAS
• ROBERT THOMPSON
• NORMAN H. WETMORE
• FRANK WHITE
• HERBERT W. WRIGHT
• ROY T. YOUNG
• HAROLD G. EARLE
• BAZIL RYAN

ERECTED BY THE FAMILY OF
JOSEPH D. ROBERTSON

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KINGS COUNTY ROLL OF HONOUR

• ELDON N. ADAIR
• LEON D. ALWARD
• STANLEY M. ALWARD
• JAMES T. ARNOLD
• GERALD A. BECK
• SECORD R. BERRY
• DONALD A. S. BLACK
• J. BASIL BLAND
• WALTER L. BOVAIRD
• K. J. BRANSCOMBE
• ROBERT A. BREWER
• JAMES C. BROWN
• WILLIAM W. BROWN
• NORMAN L. BUCHANAM
• ARCHIBALD G. BURNHAM
• LOUIS MURRAY BURNS
• ORA S. CARLL
• LAWRENCE A. CHAPMAN
• RALPH M. CHAPMAN
• ERNEST J. CHATWIN
• ARTHUR J. CHESTNUT
• FRANK H. COBB
• ELMER COLE
• ALFRED B. CRAIG
• FRANK C. CRAWFORD
• C. FRANCIS DALEY
• H. MALCOLM DEBOO
• FRANCIS J. DEVINE
• DONALD F. DOBBIN
• THOMAS DONNACHIE
• FREDERICK A. ELLS
• ARTHUR C. EWING
• MURRAY E. FAIRWEATHER
• RONALD J. FLEMING
• ALBERT FORWARD
• WALTER W. V. FOSTER
• STANLEY D. GAUNCE
• RONALD M. GODDARD
• REGINALD L. H. GOODDAY
• WILLIAM S. GRANT
• ARTHUR A. GREGG
• ALLAN A. F. HALL
• THOMAS O. E. HALL
• WALTER V. HALL

• HARRY R. HAMILTON
• GLYNDWR HARDING
• EDWIN A. HAYES
• DUNCAN A. HEWITT
• JACK HICKSON
• WILLIAM B. HOLDER
• RALPH I. HOWE
• L. HARDIE HUNDLEY
• DOUGLAS L. HUTCHINS
• HAROLD C. INKPEN
• FRANK R. JAMES
• RAYMOND P. JONES
• J. FORD KEITH
• BLISS D. KING
• LAWRENCE G. KING
• FREDERICK M. LANDRY
• DAVID M. LAGASSICK
• ROBERT. C. LEGGE
• HARRIS M. LISSON
• GILBERT T. LONG
• HUGH K. MCAVITY
• ORA MCEWEN
• JACK MCLAUGHLAN
• RALPH McLENHAHAN
• MALCOLM H. MACLEOD
• BERNARD E. MCNALLY
• NORMAN A. MACNEILL
• REGINALD C. MACNEILL
• EARL W. MACRAE
• MURRAY T. MAHONEY
• G. HARRY MANNING
• BASIL MARCHBANK
• VAUGHAN O. MASON
• ANDREW MEEHAN
• PERCY D. MELVIN
• CHESLEY W. MERCER
• USHER H. MILLER
• CLARENCE MILLS
• STANLEY N. MITCHELL
• WALTER C. MITTON
• DONALD W. MOFFETT
• RAYMOND C. MOORE
• RICHARD R. MORRE
• ELDON E. MORTON
• RUSSELL M. NESS
• ALDEN E. NICKERSON
• AVARD I. NORTHRUP
• TALMAGE A. NORTHRUP
• CHARLES GERARD NUGENT
• RONALD G. O'DELL
• LIONEL F. PAGE
• ANNIE PARKIN
• WILLIAM H. PARLEE
• JAMES. R. PATTERSON
• RONALD A. PATTERSON
• WILLIAM A. PATRICK
• WILLIAM NUTTER-PICKETT
• ROY S. PIERS
• BRENTON JOHN PIKE
• CLIFFORD S. POLLOCK
• FREDERICK W. POLLOCK
• DONALD E. PRICE
• GERALD R. RAYMOND
• GORDON S. REID
• WILFORD REINHART
• G. DONALD RICHARDS
• ALBERT E. ROBERTS
• DONALD OSCAR ROBERTSON
• EDWARD N. SAUNDERS
• ALEXANDER M. SHEARER
• ALBERT A. SHIRES
• C. THOMAS SMITH
• DOUGLAS R. SMITH
• RALPH M. SPRAGUE
• RICHARD E. SPRAGUE
• CHARLES H. STEWART
• ANDREW H. STOCKTON
• ROBERT W. STOCKTON
• W. LYNN STOCKTON
• TALMAGE DEWITT TEAKLES
• W. ERNEST TRANTON
• JOHN B. WALLACE
• WALTER A. WALLACE
• VINCENT B. WHELPLEY
• WILLIS J. WILKINS
• KENNETH E. WILSON
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• WORLD WAR I
• WILLIAM THOMAS BLACK
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• C.D. RICHARDS

ERECTED BY THE FAMILY OF
JOSEPH D. AND FRANCES ROBERTSON

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VIIMY OAKS LEGACY
LEGS des CHÊNES de VIMY

THE VIMY OAKS STORY

The Battle of Vimy Ridge in northern France, April 9th to April 12th, 1917, is considered to be
one of the defining events in the history of our nation. Where Allied troops had struggled and
failed, the Canadians overcame great odds and eventually captured the Ridge at a cost of some
10,600 casualties. After the battle, Lieutenant Leslie Miller of Scarborough, Ontario serving
with the Canadian Expeditionary Force, gathered up a handful of acorns from a partially
buried English oak (Quercus robur) on the Ridge. He sent the acorns home to his family with
instructions to plant them. In 1919 Lieutenant Miller returned, was given a 25 acre section of his
father's Scarborough farm and transplanted the oaks along the borders of this woodlot. He named
his farm "The Vimy Oaks". Today, a number of these majestic oaks are thriving in the same but
smaller woodlot under close care of the Scarborough Chinese Baptist Church that purchased
the farm property in 2002.

In January 2014, a group of volunteers, the "Vimy Oaks Legacy Corporation", decided to
repatriate offspring of these descendants oaks back to Vimy Ridge, whose oak trees had all been
destroyed in the First World War. These Vimy Oak saplings will be planted in the Vimy
Foundation Centennial Park, adjacent to the Canadian National Vimy Memorial site, as part of
centennial commemoration in France in 2017 and 2018.

The non-profit Vimy Oaks Legacy Corporation has undertaken to offer Vimy Oak saplings
grown in Canada for sale to qualifying organizations and individuals to be planted at
commemorative sites throughout Canada to honour the soldiers who fought at Vimy Ridge and
other battles during the First World War.

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The Royal Canadian Legion

The Royal Canadian Legion's mission is to serve Veterans, including service military and RCMP members and their families, to promote Remembrance and to serve their communities and their country. The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 28 in Hampton began leasing space in the Town's Agricultural Hall in 1928. In 1955, Directors of the Hall entered into a long-term lease of the building to the Legion members and in 1979, the Hampton's Branch 28 of the Royal Canadian Legion took over ownership of the building. In 2016, the Legion members voted to sell the hall and relocated to the Hampton Community Centre, taking out a long-term lease in the Ossekeag Room. The Legion's new home seems more than appropriate as it is adjacent to the Legion's Cenotaph, the burial site of Princess Louise, and the Vimy Oak.

PRINCESS LOUISE

The 8th Canadian Hussars (Princess Louise's) is Canada's oldest armoured regiment with its official history dating back to April 4, 1848. In 1879 after mounting a guard for the Governor General of Canada, and his wife HRH Princess Louise, the regiment sought permission to add her name to their title in 1884. It was only fitting that members of the 8th Hussars would name a wounded colt, rescued in the fighting in Italy during World War II, Princess Louise. When they returned from service in Italy during World War II, they were accompanied by this rescued Italian horse, "Princess Louise" who had become their mascot. Princess Louise received her naturalization papers on the steps of the Kings County Court House (now the Town Hall) in March 1946 as she was welcomed by a large crowd of residents. Princess Louise would eventually have two foals of her own, aptly named Princess Louise II and III. Her final resting place

THE VIMY OAK

After the Battle of Vimy Ridge was won on April 12, 1917, Lieutenant Leslie Miller, a soldier from Ontario, gathered up a handful of acorns as a souvenir to the momentous victory. On returning to Canada, he planted the acorns on his land, calling his property the Vimy Oaks Farm. Today several of the oak trees he planted are still standing, the same cannot be said for all of the original oaks that stood on the Vimy Ridge site in 1917. A group of individuals is working with the Vimy Foundation to repatriate these Canadian Vimy Oaks back to Vimy, France to help preserve Canada's WWI legacy through the creation of a living memorial. Vimy Oaks saplings were offered for sale to Royal Canadian Legions cross the country as a memorial to the soldiers of World War I, including to Branch #28 here in Hampton. Our Vimy Oak and its certificate of authenticity were unveiled on Remembrance Day 2017.

In the summer of 2017, Amber Young, a local artist and art teacher at Saint John High School approached the Town about painting a mural on the outer wall of the Hampton Community Centre. The project was a labour of love for Young, her friends Jessica Hickie and Emily Dee, and their eight children. The mural is a bright field of poppies with the sun setting in the distance, which is a fitting tribute to our veterans.

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DEDICATED TO ALL FALLEN VETERANS

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FOR KING AND COUNTRY

MEMBERS OF
CHURCH OF ENGLAND ST. MARTINS

WHO HAVE VOLUNTEERED FOR ACTIVE SERVICE
WITH
CANADA'S FIGHTING FORCES

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FOR KING AND COUNTRY

MEMBERS OF FAIRFIELD, SHANKLIN, BAINS' CORNER, TYNEMOUTH CREEK

WHO HAVE VOLUNTEERED FOR ACTIVE SERVICE WITH CANADA'S FIGHTING FORCES