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Taber war Memorial swimming pool

[top plaque/plaque supérieure]

AVENUE OF TREES

[left plaque/plaque gauche]

THE 218 TREES ALONG
AND 3RD ST. N. E. WERE PLANTED
IN 1945 BY THE SCHOOL CHILDREN IN
EVERLASTING TRIBUTE OF THE 218
MEN AND WOMEN FROM REDCLIFF
AND AREA WHO SERVED IN THE
ARMED FORCES DURING WORLD II.

1939 TO 1945

REDCLIFF BRANCH 6

[centre plaque/plaque de centre]

LEST WE FORGET

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ALLENBACH, ROY
AMBURD, CHARLES
ANDERSON, SVEN
BALDRY, STANLEY
BAIER, JOSEPH
BALMER, JOHN
BALMER, WILLIAM
BEAUDR, B.
BELL, NELSON
BELL, ROD
BELL, WILFRED
BEZLER, EDWARD
BERGERON, CLIFFORD
BLADES, WILLIAM
BONESKY, ARNOLD
BROWN, THEODOR
BROWN, JAMES
BROADFOOT, DAVID
BUCHHOLTZ, CURTIS
BUCHHOLTZ, ROBERT
BROUGHTON, GEORGE
BULANDA, LEOPOLD
BAINBRIDGE, HARVEY
CARTER, ALBERT
COLLARD, BRUCE
COLLAR, EDITH
COLLARD, MELVILLE
CONGRAM, ELMER
CONGRAM, ERIC
CONGRAM, HAROLD
COOKE, DOREEN
COOKE, EILEEN
COOKE, KATHLEEN
COOPER, HOWARD
COOPER, RICHARD
COX, ISABEL
DACRE, JAMES
DAVIES, JOHN
DICKSON, FRANK
DICKSON, WILLIAM
DUTTON, JAMES
DUTTON, JOHN
DUTTON, THOMAS
ELLIS, KEITH
EVANS, GEORGE
FAIRHURST, EDWARD
FAIRHUST, ROBERT
FAIRHURST, WILFRED
FAULKNER, P.
FLOYD, DAVID
FORBES, FRED
FULTON, JAMES
FULTON, ROBERT
GILSON, STANLEY
GOODINE, ERNEST

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GOODINE, FRANK
GOODINE, GEORGE
GOODINE, LOUIS
GORDON, DAVID
GRISEDALE, WILLIAM
GROVES, W.
HARGRAVE, DONALD
HARGRAVE, RALPH
HARRIS, ARTHUR
HARRIS, EDWARD
HATLEY, JACK
HNATIUK, WILLIAM
HOPE, GEORGE
HOUGHTON, FRED
HUMPHREY, HILDA
HUMPHREY, MABLE
HURLBERT, ARNOLD
HURLBERT, BEN
HURLBERT, GORDEN
HURLBERT, WILFRED
HICKS, LEONARD
JACKSON, JAMES
JACOBSON, HENRY
JOHNSON, ALBERT
JOHNSON, ARTHUR
JOHNSON, CLEMENT
JOHNSON, DONALD
JOHNSON, RONALD
JOHNSON, WILLIAM
JOHANSEN, EGAN
JONES, ALBERT
JONES, THOMAS
HODGES, WILLIAM
KALDESTAD, EVELYN
KALDESTAD, HELMER
KALDESTAD, SANDFORD
KING, WALTER
KITCHEN, GEORGE
KITCHEN, HENRY
KWASNICK, THOMAS
LEVENNE, JULES
LAWSON, EDWARD
LAWSON, LLOYD
LAWSON, NORRIS
LAWSON, WALTER
LEARMONTH, JACK
LENNING, DOUGLAS
LENNING, HAROLD
LENNING, JOHN
LENNING, STANLEY
LEPPARD, LESLIE
LEWIS, LEO
LOWCAY, JAMES
LAPP, G.
LIEN, ALBERT

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LIEN, JACK
MADSEN, ANDREW
MADSEN, JOHN
MARTIN, EDWARD
MARTIN, EDWARD R.
MARTY, ORLAND
MARTY, WALTER
MASKELL, EDWARD
MATHANY, JOHN
MCCLEARY, MANLIFF
MCDERMOTT, JAMES
MCFADZEN, JOCK
MCKAY, KENNETH
MELDRUM, NORMAN
MILLER,EDWIN
MIGNEAULT, DORIS
MIGNEAULT, THOMAS
MOORE, BASIL
MOORE, JOHN
MOORE, HUNTLEY
MORETON, LEONARD
MOSEHOLN, HAROLD
MURRAY, JACK
NEWNHAM, GORDON
NEWNHAM, KENNETH
NEWNHAM, ROY
NOLAN, JOSEPH
OAKLAND, GEORGE
OAKLAND, HAROLD
O'BEAR, HORACE
OSGOOD, GORDON
OSGOOD, HOWARD
OSGOOD, NORMA
PATERSON, ALEX
PATERSON, DAVID
PATERSON, WILLIAM
PATTERSON, SYDNEY
PEARSON, WILLIAM
PEARSON, SIDNEY
PIEPGRASS, LYLE
PODESTA, ALBERT
PODESTA, ERNEST
POVEY, GEORGE
READ, JAMES
REYNEN, JOHN
REYNEN, JOSEPH
REYNEN, MAURICE
REYNEN, WILFRED
RODMAN, ALFRED
ROESER, ALBERT
ROES, JOHN
ROSE, NORMAN
ROSE, R.
ROSE, STANLEY
ROSS, F.

[fourth column/quatrième colonne]RUTHERFORD, THOMAS
SANGSTER, CECIL
SANGSTER, DONALD
SCHAEFFER, ALFRED
SCHAEFFER, ANNIE
SCHAEFFER, CHARLES
SCHAEFFER, FRANK
SCHAEFFER, JOHN
SCHNEIDER, MANNY
SCHMIDT, EDWARD
SCHMIDT, ERWIND
SHAW, ALBERT
SHAW, ELI
SHEASBY, GORDON
SKIDMORE, GEORGE
SOUKUP, JOHN SR.
SOUKUP, JOHN
SELLHORN, WILLIAM
SPENCE, JACK
STENHOUSE, JOSEPH
STEVENS, FRANK
STEVENS, JAMES
STEVENS, TERRANCE
STIMSON, JACK
STONIER-HAMNETT, HARRY
STONE, LANGLEY
STRATTON, ROBERT
SWEEN, HAROLD
SWEEN, LAWRENCE
SWEEN, OSWALD
SWANSON, WILLIAM
SWARTZ, HEINE
THOMPSON, GEORGE
THORSETH, LLOYD
THORSETH, SELMAR
TITSING, EARL
TOWLE, SIDNEY
VICKOVITCH, EMERY
WALKER, E.
WALTON, JOHN
WARD, ALBERT
WATERS, HOWARD
WATERS, WILLIAM
WELLS, ELIZABETH
WELLS, JOSEPH
WILLIS, NORMAN
WILLIS, WILLIAM
WILSON, E.
WILSON, GORDON
WILSON, KENNETH
WILSON, LOUIS
WASILEWSKI, MIKE
YATES, WILLIAM

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DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF SERVING
MEMBERS OF CANADIAN FORCES BASE SUFFIELD
WHO LOST THEIR LIFE IN THE PERFORMANCE OF
THEIR DUTY.

24 October 2004

Lieutenant-Colonel K Steed OMM, CD
Base Commander

[bottom left plaque/plaque en bas, à gauche]

Master Corporal
Robert G Paul
17 July 2003

[bottom right plaque/plaque en bas, à droite]

Corporal
Stephen D. Gibson
26 September 2003

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The Experimental Station,
Suffield

In the darkest days of the worldwide struggle against the Axis powers,
Canada took the lead in countering the potential use, by those enemy
countries, of chemical warfare agents. From 1941 to 1945, the battle to
provide effective defence against such weapons of mass destruction was
conducted at both the Experimental Station in Suffield, Alberta, and the
Chemical Warfare Laboratories in Ottawa, where military personnel
participated in many hazardous and secret trials. The results of their efforts
provided the foundation for the Allies' chemical agent countermeasures,
but, as a consequence of the secrecy required, the contributions made by
these members to the defence of Canada and the victory of the United
Nations could not be acknowledged. After 1945 Canada's national security
required continued, unheralded participation by volunteers in chemical
warfare agent tests. The collective service of all these participants was
significant, and while their efforts were unknown in the past, their duty
was, by every measure, exceptional, and was gratefully recognized by the
Government of Canada on 19 February 2004.

The Suffield Experimental Station was established by Order in Council
PC/16687 on 26 August 1941. Since that date, a number of National Defence
scientific institutions in southern Alberta, known by a variety of names
but with a common purpose, have advanced the protection capability of
Canadian Forces personnel through incomparable research and
development efforts. This tremendous body of work assembled over the
past 60 years could not have been accomplished without the active
participation of test subjects

[right/droit] (same as left, in French, needs further research/méme qu'à gauche, en français, recherche incomplète)

HEREIN LIES A TIME CAPSULE OF
MEMORABILIA

COMMEMORATING THE FIRST FIFTY YEARS
AT SUFFIELD

INTERRED 1200 HOURS, 25 OCTOVER 1991

TO BE OPENED ON THE OCCASION OF
THE 100TH ANNIVERSARY

25 OCTOBER 2041

CFB SUFFIELD DRES BATUS

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IN TRIBUTE TO THOSE BRITISH SOLDIERS WHO, SINCE 1972, HAVE DIED WHILST
TRAINING ON THE SUFFIELD BLOCK AS PART OF EXERCIXE MEDICINE MAN.

FOR THEIR SACRIFICE IN PURSUIT OF PEACE, FOR THEIR LOVE OF COUNTRY
AND FOR THEIR DEVOTION TO DUTY, WE SALUTE THEM AND ENTRUST THEM TO
THE CARE OF ALMIGHTY GOD.

"BLESSED ARE THE PEACEMAKERS FOR THEY SHALL BE CALLED THE SONS OF
GOD."(ST. MATTHEW 5:9)

THE 175TH
OVERSEAS BATTALION
C.E.F.

THE 175TH WAS MEDICINE HAT'S OWN REGIMENT. IT WAS FORMED AND RECRUITED EARLY IN 1916 FOR FIRST WORLD WAR SERVEC. THE REGIMENT EMBARKED FOR ENGLAND ON SEPTEMBER 26, 1916 AND ULTIMATELY JOINED OTHER ALBERTA UNITS IN ACTION ON THE BELGIUM AND FRENCH FRONTS. THEY REMAINED IN ACTION UNTIL THE WAR'S END AND THEIR BATTLE HONORS WERE MANY. OF THE 1000 OFFICERS AND MEN, 206 WERE KILLED, 326 WOUNDED AND 85 RECEIVED GALLENTRY DECORATIONS.

THE 'IMMORTAL FLAME" ON THIS MONUMENT WAS DEDICATED AT THE 50TH REUNION OF THE REGIMENT ON SEPTEMBER 25, 1966 TO COMMEMORATE THOSE MEN OF THE REGIMENT WHO DIED ON THE BATTLEFIELD AND THOSE WHO RETURNED IN HONOUR.

"WE SHALL BE FOREVER GRATEFUL AND PROUD OF THEIR EFFORTS". THE CITIZENS OF MEDICINE HAT.

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34 ROYAL AIR FORCE SERVICE FLYING TRAINING SCHOOL

UNDER THE BRITISH COMMONWEALTH
AIR TRAINING PLAN NO. 34 SERVICE
FLYING TRAINING SCHOOL OPERATED
FROM MEDICINE HAT AIRPORT FROM
APRIL 8, 1941 TO NOVEMBER 17, 1944.
THE SCHOOL WAS AWARDED THE
PRESTIGIOUS "E" PENNANT FOR
EFFICIENCY IN TRAINING MANY
PILOTS FOR ALLIED AIR FORCES IN
WORLD WAR II.
APPRECIATION IS EXPRESSED TO
MEDICINE HAT AND ITS RESIDENTS
FOR THE COOPERATION AND WARM
HOSPITALITY SHOWN TO ALL
STATIONED HERE.

[rear/arrière]
THIS MEMORIAL MADE POSSIBLE
BY CONTRIBUTIONS FROM NO. 34
S.F.T.S. ASSOCIATION MEMBERS AND
FAMILIES, BRANCH 17 ROYAL CANADIAN
LEGION, AND PRIVATE DONORS.
THE SITE WAS PROVIDED BY THE
CITY OF MEDICINE HAT.

[north face/côté nord]
DEDICATED TO THE GLORY OF THOSE WHO SERVED THEIR COUNTRY
ERECTED BY THE ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION REDCLIFF BRANCH NUMBER 6 1986

[The east face of the cenotaph contains the poem "In Flanders Fields" by John McCrae./Le poème « In Flanders Fields », de John McCrae, est inscrit sur le côté est du cénotaphe.]

IN FLANDERS FIELDS THE POPPIES BLOW
BETWEEN THE CROSSES ROW ON ROW
THAT MARK OUR PLACE
AND IN THE SKY
THE LARKS STILL BRAVELY SINGING FLY
SCARCE HEARD AMIDST THE GUNS BELOW

WE ARE THE DEAD. SHORT DAYS AGO
WE LIVED, FELT DAWN, SAW SUNSET GLOW,
LOVED, AND WERE LOVED, AND NOW WE LIE
IN FLANDERS FIELDS.

TAKE UP OUR QUARREL WITH THE FOE:
TO YOU FROM FAILING 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 FLANDERS FIELDS

[South face/côté sud]
In Remembrance of Redcliff and District Sons who paid the Supremesacrifice

1914-1918
L. Bowell
T. Bradley
E. Cameron
A. Cann
T.Chalmers
W. Chapman
J. Comptom
W. Connell
R. Dunsire
J.Edwards
W. Eeles
W. Henderson
H. Hodge
H. Johnson
B. Jones
I.Jones
J. Jones
J. Kirkpatrick
R. Lang
J. Lavelle
J. Leach
W.McLaren
W. McLean
D. McLuckie
S. Miller
W. Neale
W. Rae
J.Reynolds
. Ronald
G. Smith
H. Wagner
C. Walker
L. Wedderburn
L.Wilde
F. Woodcock

1939-1945

G. H. Bainbridge
F. T. Forbes
N.S. Lawson
A. Lien
K. E. Newnham
S. E. Towle
M. Wasilewski

LEST WE FORGET

Etzikom Honor Roll
DEDICATED TO THE GLORY
OF GOD AND THOSE WHO
GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR
THEIR COUNTRY
WORLD WAR I
HARRY GARRISON 24
WORLD WAR II
ROBIN ASHLEY 21
HENRY JOHNSON 25
GERALD STROMSMOE 20
MYLO STROMSMOE 26
WALDO STROMSMOE 36
'AT THE GOING DOWN....'