Nova Scotia

They gave their lives for our Freedom

World War I
1914-18

World War II
1939-45

[A list of names follows, but the wording is not clear./Une liste de noms suit, mais le texte n’est pas clair.]

[Roll of Honour/tableau d’honneur]
FOR KING AND COUNTRY
MEMBERS OF
District of Cheticamp
WHO HAVE VOLUNTEERED FOR ACTIVE SERVICE
WITH
CANADA'S FIGHTING FORCES

[A list of names follows, but the wording is not clear in the photo./Une liste de noms suit, mais le texte n’est pas clair sur la photo.]

DIEU ET PATRIE

EN MÉMOIRE DES PAROISSIENS DE CHETICAMP
MORTS DANS LES DEUX GUERRES MONDIALES
1914 - 1918
HYPOLITE H. AUCOIN
HUBERT AUCOIN
WILLIAM W. AUCOIN
EVE BOUDREAU
CHAARLES CHIASSON
JOSEPH CHIASSON
HECTOR DESVEAUX

MICHAEL DESVEAUX
NECTAIRE HACHE
HENRI LEFORT
JOSEPH P. LUEDEE
HENRIE POIRIER
NAPOLEON POIRIER
MARCELLIN POIRIER

1939 - 1945
AMEDEE S. AUCOIN
DIDIER. A. AUGOIN
PAUL L. AUCOIN

LEO S. CORMIER
DELPHIN CORMIER
SIMON P. CORMIER
WILLIE C. CHIASSON

ÉRIGÉ PAR LES ANGIENS COMBATTANTS DE LA PAROISSE

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LEST WE FORGET

1914 - 1918
1939 - 1945
KOREA

ROYAL CANADIAN
LEGION, BRANCH 151

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LEST WE FORGET

DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF
THOSE WHO SERVED THEIR COUNTRY
1914 - 1918 1939 - 1945 1950 - 1953
NO GREATER LOVE THAN THIS, NO MAN HAS,
THAN TO LAY DOWN HIS LIFE FOR HIS FRIENDS

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THIS STONE WAS ERECTED BY
JOHN WILLIAMS
PRESIDENT BRANCH 151
AND FRANCIS MACADAM
ZONE COMMANDER
1988

IN LASTING MEMORY OF THE COURAGE AND ENDURANCE OF ALL
THE CANADIANS WHO SAILED FROM SYDNEY WITH THE ATLANTIC
CONVOYS AND THE SACRIFICE OF THOSE WHO DID NOT RETURN.
THIS MEMORIAL WAS UNVEILED BY SIR NICHOLAS BAYNE, KCMG
BRITISH HIGH COMMISSIONER
1995

A LA MEMOIRE DU COURAGE ET DE L’ENDURANCE DE TOUS LES
CANADIENS EMBARQUÉE SUR LES CONVOIS DE L’ATLANTIQUE
PARTIS DE SYDNEY, ET DU SACRIFICE SUPREME DE CEUX QUI NE
SONT JAMAIS REVENUES.
CETTE PLAQUE COMMÉMORATIVE A ÉTÉ INAUGURÉE PAR
SIR NICHOLAS BAYNE, KCMG
HAUT [The wording is not clear in the photo./Le texte n’est pas clair sur la photo.] DU ROYAUME-UNI
1995

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CANADIAN MERCHANT NAVY
MARINE MARCHANDE CANADIENNE
1914 - 18 1939 - 45 1950 - 53

THE
LIFE LINE
OF THE
WORLD

POUR LA
SURVIE
DU MONDE
LIBRE

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TO THE GLORY OF GOD, AND IN LOVING MEMORY
OF THOSE WHO LIE HERE.

"THE ETERNAL GOD IS THY REFUGE, AND UNDERNEATH
ARE THE EVERLASTING ARMS." DEUT. 33:27

IN ITS INCEPTION AS A GARRISON CHAPEL, ST. GEORGE’S
MINISTERED TO ALL DENOMINATIONS AS THE OLDEST CHURCH
ON CAPE BRETON ISLAND.

THE ORIGINAL SETTLERS AND MANY GARRISON MEMBERS
WERE BURIED HERE.
THE CHURCH OF ST. GEORGE WAS CEDED TO
THE SETTLEMENT OF SYDNEY BY THE GARRISON IN 1785.

MAY YOU FIND SERENITY AND PEACE IN THESE SURROUNDINGS.

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ST. GEORGES

THE OAK TREE

PRESENTED TO
THE CITIZENS OF LOUISBOURG
TO MARK THE 275 ANNIVERSARY
OF THE TOWN BY 2ND BATTALION
THE NOVA SCOTIA HIGHLANDERS (CB)
ON BEHALF OF THEIR ALLIED REGIMENT
THE 22ND (CHESHIRE) REGIMENT
WHOSE FIRST BATTLE HONOUR WAS
THE SEIGE OF LOUISBOURG IN
1756

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KILLED IN ACTION
DONALD MCDOUGALL
RONALD W. MORRISON
ARCHIBALD C. MCDONALD
DUNCAN JOHNSTON
HUGH C. MCNEIL
ARCHIE MCDONALD
DIED IN SERVICE
ARCHIE CAMPBELL
NEIL J. MCNEIGAN

DEDICATED BY
ST. COLUMBA CONGREGATION
TO THE MEMORY OF ITS
FALLEN HEROES IN THE WAR
OF 1914 - 1918

SOLDIERS MONUMENT

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1939 - 1945

WALTER C. INGRAHAM
HUGH MACISAAC

ERECTED SEPT. 1, 1919