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The Royal Engineers Memorial was erected in 1926 by the Engineering Institute of Canada and the Association of Professional Engineers of BC in honour of the Royal Engineers who built the original Cariboo Highway. The original plaque was stolen, and the Ministry of Transportation fabricated and installed a replacement plaque.

Laura Johnson was commissioned by the Royal Canadian Legion Okanagan Falls to paint a mural in 2019. The veteran's tribute features waving flags, fighting vehicles and six soldiers' silhouettes.

The Hedley Cenotaph was built between August and December 1919 and unveiled on December 14, 1919. The local newspaper reported intentions to mount machine guns with the cenotaph, but this never happened. The town of Hedley gave much during the First World War in terms of time, money and lives. The Hedley women knitted socks and other comforts for the men at the front and the work force as a whole, at both the mine and the stamp mill, contributed weekly into a Patriotic Fund that provided additional income for the troops and their dependents. By the war’s end so many Hedley men had been killed or wounded and the money grew into a significant sum. The money was distributed to the surviving Veterans and $1,000 set aside to build a monument to the fallen. A war monument committee was formed, chaired by Lieutenant Tom Knowles, with Captain Alec Jack and Private Joe Rotherham, all from the 54th Kootenay Battalion and part of a group of 17 men who volunteered together from Hedley in August of 1915.

Six of the men on the cenotaph are from the 54th Kootenay Battalion and of those, five were from the original group of 17 who signed up together. When these 17 men left Hedley on August 24, 1915, they gathered at the exact location of the future cenotaph and had a group photo taken. There was a big send-off. All the townspeople gathered, the children were let out of school and the town brass band played. The recruits left Hedley in a caravan of vehicles draped with banners which read, "Recruits from Hedley, the Machine Gun Town."

Through the years the cenotaph has stayed in its same spot. Originally surrounded by railings, these were eventually removed after one too many car crashes endangered the monument, and a sturdy stone wall was built. A bronze plaque was later added at the base of the cenotaph with four names from the Second World War. On August 26, 2017, the Hedley Cenotaph was re-dedicated after restoration work in June 2017, to restore the lead lettering and add the names of two more men from Hedley who were killed in the First World War. Hedley residents, Jennifer Douglass and Andy English, devoted approximately three and a half years researching the names on the cenotaph and discovered the two names that should have been included. Repairs to the cenotaph were completed by stonemason Andrew Swinley.

Captain Grant Creek is named in honour of Captain John Marshall Grant, Royal Engineers. The creek was named on December 15, 1981 by the Government of British Columbia.

Captain John Marshall Grant was born at sea in 1822. He attended the Royal Military Academy Woolwich where he was commissioned into the Royal Engineers in January 1842. By May 1855, he had been promoted to Captain and in September 1858 sailed to Canada as the Senior Captain of the Columbia Detachment under Colonel Moody. Arriving in Esquimalt in November 1858, Grant proceeded to the RE encampment at Fort Langley but by spring 1859 had built a home in Queenborough (which would later be renamed New Westminster). With the Detachment’s mandate to establish order and assist in the settling of the Lower Mainland, Grant soon became involved in numerous projects including the surveying and construction of the Hope Trail and Cariboo Trail, improvements to the Dewdney Trail into an all-weather wagon road, the design and construction of Christ Church Anglican in Hope and Various improvements in New Westminster. The Detachment was disbanded in 1863 and Captain Grant returned to England where he retired as a Colonel in 1882. He died in Bournemouth in April 1902.

The city of Merritt, British Columbia, was previously known as Forksdale, but renamed in 1906 in honour of soldier and mining engineer William Hamilton Merritt III.

Born in 1855, Merritt joined the Governor General’s Body Guard (previously known as the Governor General’s Horse Guards) in 1882 and deployed during the 1885 Northwest Rebellion. Following his return to Toronto, he was granted permission to join a British cavalry regiment in Egypt and then proceeded to South Africa where he was appointed squadron commander in the 1^st Regiment, Brabant’s Horse and later second in command of the 2^nd Regiment, during the South African War. Having returned to Canada, he was appointed second in command of the newly formed 2^nd Regiment, Canadian Mounted Rifles in 1901. He once again sailed for South Africa in early 1902 and returned to Canada with his regiment at the end of the conflict. During the period prior to the First World War, he remained active in military circles, serving at various times as president of the Canadian Military Institute and the Canadian Cavalry Association and was instrumental in the creation of the Canadian Defence League. Due to his advanced age (59), he was unable to serve during the First World War, but continued his support of military matters by offering to outfit a unit, establishing the Canadian Aviation Fund to promote the creation of a Canadian military aviation service and purchasing and providing two aircraft to Britain. He died of influenza in 1918 and was buried with full military honours.

The land surrounding Commando Bay is a heritage site (Okanagan Mountain Provincial Park) and on September 1988, a bronze plaque was erected in honour of the agents of Force 136 who trained there. This Second World War training camp was used by Britain's Special Operations Executive to train Chinese-Canadians to work as secret agents in Southeast Asia.

Thirteen of these soldiers selected for Operation Oblivion learned special skills at this site. This mission involved dropping Allied secret agents behind enemy lines in East Asia to help fight Japanese forces there.

While Operation Oblivion would be cancelled, some of these soldiers took part in other similar special forces efforts in East Asia. The missions were so dangerous that the odds of agents surviving were low. Luckily, however, the soldiers honoured on this plaque returned home after the war. Four of them earned the Military Medal for their great courage. In some ways, Chinese Canadian Veterans were responsible for a double victory. They helped the Allies win the Second World War and also proved their patriotism, which later helped earn them the right to vote.

The camp opened on March 24, 1944 and students were trained in wireless operation, small arms, demolition, unarmed combat, sabotage, survival techniques, propaganda and other skills of a covert operative. It closed in September 1944 and since it was a tented camp, nothing remains today.

This site is abandoned, but can be accessed by boat.

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The upper hall in the branch building is named the Lloyd Carleton Memorial Hall in memory of a veteran and life member of the branch.

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