Altar of Sacrifice
Municipality/Province: Aurora, ON
Memorial number: 35092-008
Type: Altar
Address: 14659 Yonge Street
Location: Aurora War Memorial Peace Park
GPS coordinates: Lat: 43.9854085 Long: -79.4636631
Submitted by: Aurora Museum & Archives.
On November 9, 1960, Lieutenant-Governor J. Keiller Mackay, DSO, unveiled the granite Altar of Sacrifice which was erected to salute those 55 men who died during the Second World War.
The Aurora War Memorial Board, a non-profit organization which was incorporated in 1925 takes full responsibility for the upkeep, financial records and promotion of the Aurora War Memorial and Altar of Sacrifice.
Inscription found on memorial
[front/devant]
1939 + ALTAR OF SACRIFICE + 1945
- (column 1/colonne 1)
- ASH, J. RANKIN
- BENJAMIN, ROY E.
- BENVILLE, LAWRENCE J.
- BOWLER, WILLIAM
- BRADBURY, JOHN
- BROWN, WILLIAM D.
- BURGON, PERCY
- CHADBURN, LLOYD V.
- DSO/BAR CHEVALIER
- LEGION OF HONOUR
- CROIX DE GUERRE,
- D. F. C.
- (column 2/colonne 2)
- CHADWICK, ALBERT
- COX, G. D.
- CROSSLEY, WILLIAM
- CUTLER, ERIC E.
- DALTON, A. B. CLIFFORD
- DAVIDSON, JOHN A.
- DAVIS, GEORGE
- DAWSON, ANGUS
- DAWSON, CHARLES
- DOVE, WALTER
- (column 3/colonne 3)
- DUGGAN, THOMAS A.
- EDWARDS, MASON A.
- FIFE, FRED
- FOLLIOTT, ERIC
- GITTINS, ROBERT B.
- GLEAVE, DONALD R.
- HAYES, DENNIS
- HEANEY, WESLEY
- HEATH, WILLIAM
- (column 4/colonne 4)
- HOWARD, BURTON
- JOHNSON, FRANK
- JONES, HENRY C.
- KAY, HARRY L.
- KING, PERRY
- KING, WILLIAM D.
- MCBRIDE, WARREN
- MCKENZIE, DOUGLAS
- MORNING ORLIE
- (column 5/colonne 5)
- MUGFORD, WILLIAM
- PAGAN, WILLIAM D.
- PRIMEAU, JOSEPH P.
- ROBSON, MELVIN P. F.
- RUMBLE, ROBERT
- RUTHERFORD, ROSS S.
- SNEDDEN, ANDREW
- SNIVELY, DOUGLAS S.
- STEPHENSON, WESLEY, MM
- STILES, BRUCE
- (column 6/colonne 6)
- STYLES, FREDERICK L.
- THOMPSON, DONALD H.
- TRANMER, WILLIAM T.
- TURP, ROBERT J.
- WADE, REGINALD
- WALKER, GORDON V.
- WILLIAMSON, H. WARD
- WINN, ELMER S.
- WYATT, ALAN A.
[right side/côté droit]
THE GOTHIC LINE
THE INVASION, D DAY
CAEN
THE FALAISE GAP
NIJMEGEN
THE WALCHERN ISLANDS
THE BATTLE OF THE BULGE
THE SIEGFRIED LINE
THE RHINE CROSSING
[back/arrière]
DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY OF THE MEN OF
AURORA, KING AND WHITCHURCH, WHO GAVE
THEIR LIVES IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR AND
ERECTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THESE TOWN-
SHIPS ON THE ELEVENTH OF NOVEMBER 1960
[left side/côté gauche]
BATTLE OF THE ATLANTIC
THE MURMANSK ROUTE
THE BATTLE OF BRITAIN
HONG KONG
DIEPPE
SICILY
SALERNO
ANZIO
MONTE CASSINO
Street view
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