In 1919, a plaque with the names of all the men from St. Paul’s Presbyterian Church who served in the First World War was dedicated and installed in the northwest corner of the church sanctuary. St. Paul's Presbyterian Church joined the United Church in 1925 and became St. Paul's United Church. The plaque was destroyed in the fire that razed the church on Sunday, August 11, 1963.
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Memorial Hall
The Memorial Hall at St. Paul's Presbyterian Church was constructed with volunteer labour from the congregation in 1922 to honour members of the congregation that served in the First World War. St. Paul's Presbyterian Church joined the United Church in 1925 and became St. Paul's United Church.
St. Paul's United Church closed on June 26, 2022. The building awaits demolition by its new owner.
Edgar Watt McKegney Plaque
Edgar Watt McKegney served with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers from 1915 to March 1918. He was a prisoner of war for eight months.
First and Second World Wars Honour Roll
This Honour Roll was erected in memory of All Saints' Anglican Church parishioners who served in the First and Second World Wars.
First World War Plaque
IN MEMORY OF 1701 MEN OF THE CANADIAN
BANK OF COMMERCE WHO SERVED IN
THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918
MAJ. G.S.S. BOWERBANK DSO MC
PTE. W.B.C. BRADLEY
PTE. H.H. HUFF
*2ND LT. L. PLAYNE
LT. G.C. PROCTOR
CPL. T.F.B. WALKER
SPR. D.E. WILSON
SARNIA
BRANCH
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 seven employees of the Sarnia 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. It originally hung in the Sarnia branch located downtown at Front and Lochiel Streets. In 1961, the bank merged with the Imperial Bank of Canada to form the Canadian Imperial Bank of Commerce (CIBC). The plaque was moved to the local legion in 2018 when the CIBC downtown branch closed and merged into the CIBC London Road Banking Center.
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.
Private Robertson V.C. Plaque
CCGS PRIVATE ROBERT V.C.
ROBERTSON WAS BORN IN ABION MINES, PICTOU, N.S., ON OCT. 26, 1883. FOUR YEARS LATER HIS FAMILY MOVED TO SPRINGHILL,
N.S. WHERE HE RECEIVED HIS EDUCATION. IN 1889 THE ROBERTSONS MOVE TO MEDICINE HAT, ALTA. SINGING PETE - AS HE WAS
KNOWN - JOINED THE CANADIAN PACIFIC RAILWAY WHERE HE WORKED HIS WAY UP TO ENGINEER AND EARNED HIS NICKMANE FOR HIS CHEERFUL SINGING AND WHISTLING WHETHER IN THE CAB OR AT A ROUNDHOUSE.
IN 1915, HE JOINED THE 13TH CANADIAN MOUNTED RIFLES AND LATER, WHILE IN ENGLAND, TRANSFERRED TO THE 27TH BN. THE
BRAVERY THAT EARNED HIM THE VC MADE HIM A LEGEND AMONG LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS THE WORLD OVER.
“FOR MOST CONSPICUOUS BRAVERY AND OUTSTANDING DEVOTION TO DUTY IN ATTACK. WHEN HIS PLATOON WAS HELD UP BY UNCUT WIRE AND A MACHINE GUN CAUSING MANY CASUALTIES, PTE. ROBERTSON DASHED TO AN OPENING ON THE FLANK, RUSHED THE MACHINE GUN AND, AFTER A DESPERATE STRUGGLE WITH THE CREW, KILLED FOUR AND THEN TURNED THE GUN ON THE REMAINDER, WHO, OVERCOME BY THE FIERCENESS OF HIS ONSLAUGHT, WERE RUNNING TOWARDS THEIR OWN LINES. HIS GALLANT WORK ENABLED THE PLATOON TO ADVANCE. HE INFLICTED MANY MORE CASUALTIES AMONG THE ENEMY, AND THEN CARRYING THE CAPTURED MACHINE GUN, HE LED HIS PLATOON TO THE FINAL OBJECTIVE. HE THERE SELECTED AN EXCELLENT POSITION AND GOT THE GUN INTO ACTION, FIRING ON THE RETREATING ENEMY WHO BY THIS TIME WERE QUITE DEMORALISED BY THE FIRE BROUGHT TO BEAR ON THEM.
DURING THE CONSOLIDATION PTE. ROBERTSON’S MOST DETERMINED USE OF THE MACHINE GUN KEPT DOWN THE FIRE OF THE ENEMY SNIPERS; HIS COURAGE AND HIS COOLNESS CHEERED HIS COMRADES AND INSPIRED THEM TO THE FINEST EFFORTS.
LATER, WHEN TWO OF OUR SNIPERS WERE BADLY WOUNDED IN FRONT OF OUR TRENCH, HE WENT OUT AND CARRIED ONE OF THEM IN UNDER VERY SEVERE FIRE. HE WAS KILLED JUST AS HE RETURNED WITH THE SECOND MAN.”
(LONDON GAZETTE, NO.30471, 11 JANUARY 1918)
On December 10, 2017, the CCGS (Canadian Coast Guard Ship) Private Robertson V.C. was the recipient of a large plaque sponsored by Canadian Pacific Railway. Singing Pete - as he was known - joined the Canadian Pacific Railway where he worked his way up to engineer and earned his nickname for his cheerful singing and whistling whether in the cab or at a roundhouse. In 1915, he joined the 13th Canadian mounted rifles and later, while in England, transferred to the 27th Battalion. The bravery that earned him the VC made him a legend among locomotive engineers the world over.
Private James Peter Robertson earned the Victoria Cross during the final assault on Passchendaele, Belgium, 6 November 1917 with the 27th Infantry Battalion.
Parker Street Methodist Church First World War Honor Roll
L. Gowans Jack Rodey Ed. Rodey Ed. P. Watson H. Manchester H.W. Thorn J. Cronin
Cyril Nelson F.E. Nelson H.C. Millard A. Glass Bert Nelson S. Hitchcock R.H. Nelson Nelson Brown
Wesley Emeric Vic. Gowans Geo. Ferguson Jack Barrie R.J. Gark
Parker Street Methodist Church Honor Roll
1914 - 1918
This Honour Roll, which includes photographs of 21 church members who served in the First World War, was formerly located in Parker Street Methodist Church at 152 Parker Street. In 1925, the church was established as a United Church. It closed on June 30, 2009, and the Parker Street Methodist Church First World War Honour Roll was moved to Dunlop United Church.
Parker Street United Church Second World War Honour Roll
FOR KING AND COUNTRY
MEMBERS OF
Parker Street United Church
Sarnia, Ontario
WHO HAVE VOLUNTEERED FOR ACTIVE SERVICE
WITH CANADA’S FIGHTING FORCES
ALLEN ROY D. DEMERAY ELMER D. HILLIER IVAN S.
ALLEN ROBERT W. DEMERAY DONALD L. HAMILTON DONALD
L. ARMSTRONG HAROLD W. DEMERAY NORRIS A. HAMILTON
JACK ATCHISON ROSS D. DOUGHERTY C. LAVERNE HARKNESS
F. LYLE ANDERSON JAMES W.D. DUPEE ALBERT E. HASLIP
RAY C. ALBERT ADOLPH DUPEE FRANK F. JENNINGS
J. LLOYD BRENT JAMES A. DUPEE JACK C. JENNINGS
CHARLES F. BROADBENT ANGUS EVERINGHAM EARL JENNINGS
HARRY M. BROWN ELLAR W. FULKERSON R. NEIL JENNINGS
THOMAS W.C. BROWN MALCOLM A. FOSTER ROY JOHNSON
KENNETH L. BROWN JOSEPH A. FOSTER WILLIAM JOHNSON
J. DONALD BROWN R. KENNETH FOSTER OTTO W. JACKSON
HAROLD D. BICE ELDON M. FOSTER NORMAN B. KETTLE
RICHARD BURR WILLIAM A. FIELD HARRY W. LOGAN
FLORENCE BEATTIE TUXIS FERGUSON WILLIAM J. LECLAIR
CHARLES BELL ERNSET A. FORREST DONALD LOWRY
JAMES BELL JACK T. GOULD JAMES M. MANICOM
WILLIAM E. BATTLE CHARLES W. GOLDRING DONALD R. MIDDLETON
HAROLD BROCK WILFRED J. GRAVELLE ALFRED J. MIDDLETON
THOMAS A. BROCK IVAN E. GLASS JOSEPH M. MOTT,
GUY E. BAILEY MILTON E. GLASS CHARLES L. MOTT
DELBERT J. BAILEY HAROLD V. GLASS JACK W. MILLER
WILLIAM C. BERRY CHARLES E. GUNN STEWART MILLER
ROY D. BRUSHEY GORDON GUNN JOHN W. MILLER
FRED W. BILLICK WALTER GRANT DON MILLARD
DUDLEY H. COLEMAN J. HOWARD GIBBS HARVEY W. MOORE
J. GLENN COWLEY ROY A. GUTHRIE NORMAN W. MANSFIELD
GORDON K. CLAXTON WALTER S. HARPER MARGARET R.N. MACINTYRE
ROBERT F. CLAXTON JACK O. HARPER DOROTHY R.N. MACDONALD
CHARLES CLEMENTS RAY W. HUMPHREY L. WALKER MACDONALD
ARCHIE CRABB HERBERT HARVEY JOHN P. McLEAN
HILLIARD N. COOK CLAIR V. HALL LAWRENCE McLEAN
WILLIAM M. COOK KENNETH HUTCHINSON JAMES E. McGEE
J. ROSS COLE ED HILL FRED G. McARTHUR
MALCOLM CLENDENNING LENARD HANSEN CAPT. L.F. McKINNON
WILLIAM G. COX JAMES HANSEN GEORGE C. McNEIL
WILLIAM T. CRONIN VICTOR HANSEN HOWARD F. NORRIS
ALEX CHAPMAN JAMES F. HOSKIN GRANT NORRIS
W. RICHARD CARTER WILLIAM J. HOSKIN ROY
N. NORRIS THOMAS H. CAMPBELL WILLIAM HUGGETT
J. ALVIN NELSON E. RALPH CHALMERS ALEX HUGGETT
HARVEY O’DELL NORMAN DEMERAY ERVIN W. HUGGETT
ROY N. O’DELL LLOYD DEMERAY LLOYD F. HALEY
JACK PERRY RALPH L. DEMERAY LESLIE N. HALL
GORDON PERRY CHARLES R. PERRY LYLE D. STEPHENSON
BRUCE T. STANLAKE KENNETH B. PERRY C. BYRON STEPHENSON
JOSEPH JR. STANLAKE GORDON T. PRESSEY HAROLD J. STEPHENSON
MANIFRED W. SOPER WARREN PRESSEY THOMAS STEPHENSON
LINDSAY STEELE NATHANAEL A. PARK STANLEY A. STEPHENSON
VAUGHN L. SABINE R. LLOYD PETERS HOWARD SEABROOK
ROY A. SEABROOK WILLIAM J. PINEO LEWIS GORDON SEABROOK
CLARENCE S. TAYLOR CLARENCE PHILLIPS C.A. SEABROOK
LEWIS R. TRIGGER GEORGE A. ROOT HELEN STOREY
STANLEY E. TENNANT ELMER L. RICHARDSON
C. DOUGLAS STOREY JAMES A. THORN ROBERT M. ROSS
WILLIAM I. SMITH T. LYLE WISE BETTY J. ROSE
J. MILTON SMITH JAMES D. WISE JOHN C. REID
BOLTON SMITH JACK L. WISE DONALD E. REID ALEX STEWARDSON
DON R. WALKER ELVEY REID DICKSON SNIDER
WILBUR C. WALKER WINSTON ROSENBLOOM EARL E. SHORTT
JAMES W. WALES ARCHIE A. RICHARDS GLENN E. SHORTT
CHESTER N.H. WALES ROBERT T.G. RICE K. LaVERNE SHARPE
R.E. WYVILLE ALLEN B. ROSS W. HAROLD SECORD
LESLIE W. WORSLEY WILFRED L. STANLAKE EILEEN
G. SCARROW CARMEN HANSEN WALTER E. STUBBS
FRED W. SAWYER JACK
This Honour Roll was formerly located in Parker Street United Church at 152 Parker Street. Formerly a Methodist church, the United Church was established in 1925. It closed on June 30, 2009, and the Parker Street United Church Second World War Honour Roll was moved to Dunlop United Church.
This style of an Honour Roll was designed by A.J. Casson when he worked at Sampson-Matthews, a prominent midtown Toronto lithography and commercial art company.
Sarnia-Lambton Korean War Honour Roll
CITIZENS OF SARNIA-LAMBTON WHO FOUGHT IN THE
KOREAN WAR
JUNE 25, 1950 – JULY 27, 1953
NAME (* = killed in action) REGIMENT
L.R.W. AULPH
WILLIAM ANDERSON Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry
PALMER ARNOLD
SYRIL BABIN
ROBERT BACHELOR Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry
JOE BALOGNA
J.B. BARRIE
LEONARD ROE BEATSON Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry
WILF BEDARD
ORV BLONDIN Royal Canadian Engineers
F.L. BROOKS
CHARLES BROWN US Army
J.P. CAHILL
CHARLIE CHAFE Royal Canadian Navy
KEN CHIDWICK Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry
G.A.D. CHURCHER
H.W. CLARK
JOSEPH CONNOR
DOUG COOPER
WALLACE T. CRAVAN Royal Canadian Navy
JAMES CROSSMAN Royal Canadian Regiment
DONALD DARK Royal Canadian Navy
GOLDIE DAWSON Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry
PAUL DENSMORE Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry
C.J. DOEY
WILLIAM EMBERLEY
CHARLES EMMONS Royal Canadian Navy
BRUCE CARLTON EYRE
ROBERT FADER
JC FERGUSON
GEORGE GALLOP Royal Canadian Army
EDWARD GAMMON
VIC GANDER Royal Canadian Army Service Corps
ERNEST GELINAS
FRED GENERAL Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry
WILF GERMAN
ROBERT GRAHAM Royal Canadian Navy
ERNEST GREENBIRD
TED HASLIP
C. HATFIELD
JOHN HENNESSY Royal Canadian Regiment
RUSS HOBSON
BRUCE L. HOUCK
W.J. IDEN
ROBERT EDWARD JAMES Royal Canadian Regiment
JOHN KEMP
EDWARD KETTLE Royal Canadian Navy
EDWARD JOSEPH MICHAEL KNIGHT* Royal Canadian Regiment
1199
JACK EDWARD LACHANCE Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry
GUY LACHAPELLE
GUY LUC LALONDE Royal 22nd Regiment (The Van Doos)
BOB LAPAGE Royal Canadian Regiment
W.J. LEITCH Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry
ROB LESLIE
WILLIAM LESPERANCE
G.A.D. LETHONEN
HAROLD MACDONALD Royal Canadian Regiment
PETE MCDONALD RHR
HAROLD MCLELLAN Royal Canadian Horse Artillery
GEORGE MCPHEE RSF
JIMMY MERCER
JOSEPH ANTHONY MILLS Royal Canadian Regiment
PETE MORREAU
BRUCE MURCH Royal Canadian Navy
HOWARD NEUBAURR Royal Canadian Regiment
RENNIE NICKSON Medic
CARSON NIXON Military Police
PATRICK WILLIAM O’CONNOR* Royal Canadian Regiment
WILLIAM E. OLDALE Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry
A.D. ORTON
ARNOLD PALMER
HOWARD PEARCE Royal Canadian Regiment
DAN PHILLIPS
RONALD PHILLIPS
JAMES PRIOR Royal Canadian Horse Artillery
JACK PYNE
KENNETH REDMOND
LESLIE ROBERTSON Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry
ROBERT ROSEI Royal Canadian Regiment
GEORGE S. SADOQUIS
KEN SAUVE
AL SCOTT Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry
JAMES H. SILVER US Marine Corps
KEN SISSON
WILLIAM R. SMALE
HAROLD BRUCE SMITH
R.D. STEPHENSON
R.J.K. STEVENS
JACK SWETLISHNOFF Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry
DONALD THOMAS US Military
JOHN RICHARD TOOLE* Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry
TERRY TULLY Princess Patricia’s Canadian Light Infantry
GEORGE VALE RCSC
DAVE VANSICKLE Royal Canadian Regiment
HANK WELLINGTON Royal Canadian Engineers
PETE WELLINGTON Royal Canadian Army Service Corps
LEN WHITE Royal Canadian Engineers
R.F. WILLIAMS
JOHN O’HARA WRIGHT* Royal Canadian Engineers
Sarnia-Lambton Korean War Honour Roll
Point Edward United Church Second World War Honour Roll
FOR KING AND COUNTRY
MEMBERS OF
POINT EDWARD UNITED CHURCH
WHO HAVE VOLUNTEERED FOR ACTIVE SERVICE
WITH CANADA’S FIGHTING FORCES
ANDERSON, EYLER HADLEY, ROBT. S.
* BARR, ROBERT HAYES, BILL
BARR, NEIL HAYES, TED
BARRETT, BRUCE HEFFRON, WILSON
BARRETT, ORTIE JONES, HERBERT L.
BEASLEY, WILL JONES, CLIFFORD
BROCK, WM. E. KEMSLEY, JACK
BURR, STANLEY KIRKLAND, BOB
CHURCH, STANLEY MATTINGLY, RAY
CLARK, ROSS E. MAIDMENT, CHAS. K.
COOK, DOUGLAS McAULEY, ROBT.
COOKE, CLAUDE McMAHON, JAS. W.
CLAXTON, WALTER MILLER, ERNEST J.
CLEAVE, WILL RICHARDS, ELMER
CLEAVE, JACK RICHARDS, FRANK
DENNIS, GLEN SWALES, HOWARD
FINCH, BOB WHITELAW, ERNEST
GOULD, KENNETH YATES, ROSS
GOULD, LEE. NELSON YATES, BILL
GUTTERIDGE, BILL BRADY, WALTER
GRAHAM, JOHN. EDW. GUTTERIDGE, ROBT.
GUTTERIDGE, TOM. H. SCOTT, NORM
GREENWOOD, TED TAYLOR, BERT
HADLEY, DONALD, H.
Point Edward United Church Second World War Honour Roll