This memorial is dedicated to the local war dead.
Economy Cenotaph
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IN MEMORY OF THOSE
WHO PAID THE SUPREME
SACRIFICE AND SERVED
THEIR COUNTRY IN
WAR AND PEACE
LEST WE FORGET
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IN MEMORY OF THOSE
WHO PAID THE SUPREME
SACRIFICE AND SERVED
THEIR COUNTRY IN
WAR AND PEACE
LEST WE FORGET
This memorial is dedicated to the local war dead.
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DEBERT BRANCH NO. 106
ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION
IN REMEMBRANCE OF OUR COMRADES WHO PERISHED IN ALL PAST CONFLICTS
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THOSE GAVE THE WORLD AWAY POURED OUT THE RED SWEET WINE OF YOUTH
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AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN, AND IN THE MORNING WE SHALL REMEMBER THEM
Erected by Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 106, this memorial is dedicated to comrades killed in Canada's past conflicts.
[front top plaques/plaque supérieure avant]
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ERECTED BY
SENATOR AND MRS. CURRY
IN MEMORY OF THEIR SON
CAPTAIN LEON HALL CURRY
AND HIS BROTHERS IN ARMS
FROM
CUMBERLAND COUNTY
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
TO THEIR COUNTRY
IN THE GREAT GERMAN WAR
1914 - 1918
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(plaque 6)
(plaque 7)
[front bottom plaques/plaque inférieure avant]
(plaque 1)
(plaque 2)
(plaque 3)
ON THIS MONUMENT
GRATEFUL CITIZENS
ARE PLEASED TO ADD
THE NAMES OF THE MEN
FROM THIS DISTRICT WHO
GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR
THEIR COUNTRY IN THE
SECOND WORLD WAR
1939 - 1945
"GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN"
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(plaque 5)
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(plaque 1)
[back/arrière]
(plaque 1)
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"To you from falling hands
we throw the Torch;
be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith
with us who die,
we shall not sleep,
though poppies grow
In Flaners fields"
(plaque 5)
(plaque 6)
(plaque 7)
[left side/côté gauche]
(plaque 1)
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KOREAN WAR 1950 - 1953
IN MEMORY OF OUR FALLEN COMRADES
PRIVATE BORDEN BRUCE BROWN
PRIVATE HAROLD CARLEN HARRISON
PRIVATE EMERSON EDWARD PATTERSON
PRIVATE RALPH ELVIN TURNBULL
The Cumberland County Soldiers Memorial Monument was erected by Senator Nathaniel Curry and Mary Hall Curry in memory of their son, Captain Leon Hall Curry, as well as the other Cumberland County war dead of the First World War. Curry was the first University of Acadia graduate to fall in the Great War.
Following the official presentation by Senator Curry, it was unveiled on July 2, 1921, at three o'clock Saturday afternoon by Colonel C.E. Bent, C.M.G., D.S.O. An impressive silence settled over Victoria Square as the loose folds of the Canadian flag, which shrouded the monument, were drawn slowly asunder disclosing the life like bronze statue of a Nova Scotia Highlander, representing Cumberland's contribution of men in the Great War. Designed by the famous Italian sculptor A. G. Ghiloni, who took as his basic idea, Colonel John MacRae's immortal poem "In Flanders Fields".
The base of the gray native granite was cut and erected by the local firm of J.A. Tingley and Sons, and is surmounted by a heavy bronze tablet form that is surrounded with interwoven poppies and crosses, flanked at regular intervals with flaming torches. The bronze design extends around the whole monument, the tablets bearing the printed names and ranks of the 336 Cumberland men who gave their lives in the war. In the front, the metal work terminates in a large bronze plate topped by the Nova Scotia Coat of Arms. In the rear of the monument a similar plate contains the verse from "In Flanders Fields". The surmounting statue's face is a remarkable likeness of the late Captain Leon Curry. The figure is attired in the full dress uniform of the 85th Highlanders - highland kit and beret, standing in the natural posture of ease, with one arm leaning on a stout cane.
The cenotaph was later expanded to include the 79 names of the war dead from the Second World War. Amherst celebrated its centennial year in 1989 and a time capsule was sealed in the base of the memorial. In 1992, the statue was struck by a vehicle. In the course of repairing the memorial, additions were made to the time capsule and it was sealed again.
On November 4, 2020, the Korean War plaque made by Liberty Enterprises Ltd. of Brookdale was unveiled. It was placed on the west side of the cenotaph, the side facing the courthouse and the direction in which Canadian soldiers would have travelled in order to reach Korea. Hal Patterson, who spent 13 months fighting in Korea with the 1st Battalion Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry, helped Amherst Mayor David Kogon unveil the plaque.
The maple leaf shaped memorial was unveiled in the Veterans Memorial park on November 11 2014. The brass sculpture by Timothy R. schulz depicts 200 faces of people serving in the branches of the armed forces from the Boer war to the present day.
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ERECTED BY
BRANCH 55
ROYAL CANADIAN
LEGION
IN REMEMBRANCE OF
THOSE WHO SERVED
WORLD WAR I
1914 - 1918
WORLD WAR II
1939 - 1945
KOREA
1950 - 1953
"LEST WE FORGET"
This memorial was unveiled June 10, 1990 by the members of the Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 55 and is dedicated to those who served in the First World War, the Second World War and the Korean War. "The Legion cenotaph was constructed in the 1990's from beach rocks from the Catalone Beach. Although beach rocks, (or ships' ballast) were available in Port Morien, it was illegal to remove them, however, a few were taken from the Port Morien shore. Ron MacDonald, William MacKenzie (using his truck), Neil (Buddy) Nicholson, Gordie Butts, Joseph Thomas and Carl Kim from Tower Road, worked on the monument laying out the stones. Buddy was a stone mason and bricklayer. The stone heart inserted above the plaque was found on the Catalone Beach and is located in the cenotaph to this day."
This panel explains the contributions Sydney Harbour made in the Second World War.
This school was dedicated to John Bernard Croak V.C. by the Royal Canadian Legion and the Town of Glace Bay on September 1, 1976. A bust of John Bernard Croak is located inside the school.
John Croak was born in Little Bay, Newfoundland, on May 18, 1892 to James and Cecelia Croak. When he was four years old, they moved to New Aberdeen, now part of Glace Bay, Nova Scotia. He left school at 14 to work in the coal mine at the Dominion No. 2 Colliery.
In early 1914, Croak did some trapping in Western Canada. On his way back to Cape Breton for a visit, he enrolled in the 55th (New Brunswick & Prince Edward Island) Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force at Camp Sussex, New Brunswick. A few days later, Croak joined the battalion at Camp Valcartier, Quebec, where he completed basic training.
John Croak departed from Montreal with his unit on the SS Corsican on October 30, 1915 ,and arrived in Britain on November 9. He arrived at the Canadian Base Depot in France on April 16, where he trained for the rigours of trench warfare. On June 12, he joined the Black Watch at the front. He fought at the Somme, Vimy Ridge and Passchendaele.
The Victoria Cross was awarded posthumously to John Croak for his heroism at Hangard Wood.
There is also a park and a Royal Canadian Legion branch (since closed) named in his honor.
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1950 KOREA 1953
[A list of names follows, the wording in the photo is not clear./Une liste de noms suit, mais le texte n’est pas clair sur la photo.]
Those Who Served
These memorials are dedicated to those who fought and those who died in the Korean Conflict.
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ERECTED
BY ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION
BRANCH 62
AND CITIZENS OF
TOWN OF LOUISBOURG,
SURROUNDING DISTRICTS.
IN GRATEFUL TRIBUTE
TO THOSE WHO MADE THE
SUPREME SACRIFICE
IN WORLD WAR I AND II
[rear/arrière]
1939 - 1945
MURRAY MC CORMICK
ROBERT MARTIN
EDWARD CAMPBELL
JOSEPH BOURINOT
HERBURT HARRIS
WILLIAM MC DOUGALL
WILLIAM H. BAGNALL
RONALD CARR
JOHN A. MC INTYRE
DANIEL T. TOWNSEND
JOHNSTON SITEMAN
PATRICK MAC MULLIN
WALTER BARASS
ROBERT THOMAS
DAVID CAMPBELL
CHARLES MARTELL
RUFUS PERRY
ANDREW CAMPBELL
MURDOCK CAMPBELL
CLAYTON MOORE
ANGUS MAC LEOD
[rear/arrière]
1914 - 1918
HUGH MCLENNAN
NEIL MACKEIGAN
JOHN GEORGE HUNT
NORMAN POWER
NEIL MC PHERSON
ABRAHAM WILCOX
MALCOLM JOHNSTON
JAMES O’NEIL
ANTHONY MAGEE
JOHN STEELE
CYRIL BURKE
MAXWELL HARRIS
ERNEST GRANT
NORMAN [?]
JAMES MCLEOD
[The balance of the list of names is not clear in the photo./Les autres noms de la liste ne sont pas clairs sur la photo.]
This memorial is dedicated to the citizens of Louisbourg and surrounding districts who died while serving in the First and Second World Wars. It was erected by the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 62 and the citizens of Louisbourg and surrounding districts.
FOR KING AND COUNTRY
MEMBERS OF
FIRST UNITED CHURCH
1939-1945
WHO HAVE VOLUNTEERED FOR ACTIVE SERVICE
WITH
CANADA'S FIGHTING FORCES
[A list of names follows, but the wording in the photo is not clear./Une liste de noms suit, mais le texte n’est pas clair sur la photo.]
This memorial is dedicated to the members of First United Church who fought in the Second World War.