Whitehorse Cenotaph
Municipality/Province: Whitehorse, YT
Memorial number: 60001-003
Type: Three granite stelia and three metal flagpoles
Address: 2121 2nd Avenue
Location: City Hall
GPS coordinates: Lat: 60.7208723 Long: -135.0531644
Submitted by: Hubert Croteau; Joe Goodeill
Erected by the city of Whitehorse, this memorial is dedicated to the memory of the local war dead and veterans of the First and Second World Wars and the Korean War. Royal Canadian Legion Branch #254 established a committee to obtain a new location and type of cenotaph. The committee consisted of the following: -Joe Goodeill, President, Royal Canadian Legion, Branch #254 -Max Ayers, Service Officer, Royal Canadian Legion, Branch #254 (deceased) -Father Hybers, OMI, RC Padre, Royal Canadian Legion, Branch #254 (deceased) The committee approached the Government of Yukon and the City of Whitehorse to purchase a new cenotaph. Each government approached agreed to pay for the new cenotaph. The committee suggested several locations. The decision was made by then Mayor Don Branigan (deceased) to have the cenotaph in front of City Hall. The area behind the cenotaph was renamed Veteran Square in honour of the Year of the Veteran.
Inscription found on memorial
[centre stele/stèle du centre]
DEDICATED
TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND IN MEMORY OF THE
MEN AND WOMEN WHO
SERVED OUR COUNTRY
1899 SOUTH AFRICA 1902
1914 WORLD WAR I 1918
1939 WORLD WAR II 1945
1950 KOREA 1953
LEST
WE
FORGET
[left stele/stèle de gauche]
1939 - 1945
HERBERT L. CORBETT SAPPER CANADIAN ARMY
HARRY H. DAVIS PRIVATE CANADIAN ARMY
RALPH E. GOOD PILOT OFFICER ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE
STRUAN A. HIGGINS TROOPER CANADIAN ARMY
RICHARD JOHNSON PRIVATE CANADIAN ARMY
JOSEPH MACDONALD GUNNER CANADIAN ARMY
EDWARD G.C. RICHARDS FLIGHT SERGEANT ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE
ROBERT M. WESTMAN WARRANT OFFICER ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE
“THEY SHALL NOT OLD, AS WE THAT ARE LEFT GROW OLD,
AGE SHALL NOT WEARY THEM, NOW YEARS CONDEMN,
AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING,
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM”
WILLIAM A. WILLIAMS
[right stele/stèle de droite]
IN MEMORY OF
THE FALLEN FROM SOUTHERN YUKON
1914 - 1918
ALBERT E. BROWN
PERCY A. BUTLER
GEORGE M. CHAPMAN
ALFRED CRONIN
BRUCE FISHER
WILLIAM HARE
JOSEPH JOYAL
ARTHUR G. MCLELLAND
HAROLD A.E. NEWTON
GEORGE V. RAYMOND
HUGH STEWART
HILLIARD SNYDER
JACK TAYLOR
"THEY GAVE THEIR TODAY FOR OUR TOMORROW"
FRANK POLLEY
IN MEMORY OF
THE FALLEN FROM YUKON
BOER WAR 1899-1902
FOR QUEEN & COUNTRY
SGT. J BROTHERS
TPR C CRUICKSHANK
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