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Municipality/Province: Bancroft, ON

Memorial number: 35032-001

Type: Stele

Address: 16 Station Street

Location: In the cenotaph park on the corner of Station Street & River Street

GPS coordinates: Lat: 45.0594393   Long: -77.8567268

Submitted by: Anne M. Gilchrist, Tim Laye

The Bancroft Cenotaph was constructed in 1956 by the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 181. The base is constructed of local fieldstone and contains a marble insert from the original memorial which was erected by the Girls Club of the Allies. The marble insert lists the names of those lost in the First World War. The main part of the memorial lists the names of those lost in both World Wars and the Korean War.

The Dutch-Canadian Friendship Garden is also located here.

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Inscription found on memorial

[front/devant]

IN MEMORIAM

1914-1918

ANDERSON, JOHN WESLEY
ARMSTRONG, ALEC
BEAUDRIE, RICHARD
BLACK, ROBERT
BIRD, HIRAM
BOWEN, JAMES H.
BROWN S.
BULLIED, BILL
BURNETTE, CHARLES
BURNELL, BURT
BURNELL, CHARLES
BURNELL, FENTON
CARD, THOMAS
CLARKE, RICHARD
COLLINS, A.
COLLINS, D.
CONLIN, C.P.
CURRIE, A.
DALY, F.
DANFORD, CHARLES
DAVY, WILLIAM
DONALDSON, CHARLES
DONALDSON, GEORGE
GANNON, THOMAS
HENNESSY, GEORGE
HEWTON, JOHN
HOOVER, ROBERT
JARMAN, HARRY
LAIRD, JACK
LAKE, DENNIS
LAKE, JOHN
LAUNDRY, W.
LETTS, HUGH
KELCH, NELSON
MAXWELL, HERBERT E.
MAXWELL, M.
McCUTCHEON, ERWIN
McLEAN, W.
MEAGHER, L.
MITCHILL, BILL
MOORE, LLOYD
PALMATEER, EVERETT
PEEVER, G.
POWERS, WESLEY A.
REID, BEN
ROBBINS, J.
ROBBINS, LESLIE
ROBBINS, LORNE
ROBINSON, ROLAND
ROBINSON, S.
ROSEBUSH, TED
SINE, ERNEST
SPRACKETT, FRANK
STIMEARS, MALCOLM L.
STOUGHTON, WILLIAM
SWEET, FRANK
THORNTON, JAMES R.
TURRIFF, JACK
WALKER, ALFRED
WATSON, DAVID T.
WHITEFOOT, EDWIN W.
WILCOX, GEORGE
WILSON, JAMES
WOODCOCK, MELVILLE
WOODCOCK, WILLIAM W.

1939-1945

ANDERSON, WILLIAM R.
BOWERS, WILLIAM H.
BROAD, LESLIE
BULLIED, CECIL
CARROL, JOHN
CHURCHER, ALMER E.
COGLAN, CLARENCE
CROSBY, GORDON
DUPUIS, WALTER J.
GOODKEY, LEONARD E.
HARYETT, WILLIAM H.
HAWKIN, E.E.
JACKSON, ERWIN
KEECH, VICTOR
KENNEDY, WILLIAM C.
LINKIE, WALLACE H.
MAHOOD, ALEC
McALPINE, WILLIAM
McCAW, FRANCIS
McCORMICK, CECIL E.
McINTYRE, JOHN J.
McMURRAY, EDWARD
MOFFAT, EDWARD
NEIL, ELVIN
PALMATEER, DONALD
POPPIE, HUBERT
PRENTICE, MELVILLE
SHANNICK, CLARENCE A.
SHIELDS, M.V.
STOUGHTON, BERKLEY
THOMAS, DONALD F.
TOWNS, RAYMOND
VARDY, ALBERT E.
WEIMER, CLIFFORD
WHITMORE, LLOYD
WOODCOCK, JOHN H.

KOREAN WAR

ROBBINS, WILLIAM



THEIR NAME
LIVETH FOR EVERMORE

[original stone/pierre originale]


IN HONOUR OF OUR FALLEN HEROES
IN WAR 1914-1918

BANCROFT
CAPT. H. JARMAN  R.A.M.C.
GNR. W. DAVY
PTE. HERB MAXWELL
PTE. J. ROBBINS
PTE. A. RUSSELL
PTE. M. STIMERS
PTE. W. STORMS
PTE. E. WHITEFOOT

DUNGANNON
SGT. J. TURRIFF
L.SGT. A.W. POWER
PTE. J. ANDERSON
PTE. R. BLACK
SNPR. H. LETTS
PTE. J. WILSON
PTE. R. HOOVER
PTE. G. HENNESSEY
PTE. S. BROWN

FARADAY
PTE. A. CURRIE
PTE. D. LAKE
PTE. J. LAKE
PTE. L. MOORE
PTE. D. WATSON
PTE. A. WALKER

MONTEAGLE & HERSCHEL
PTE. J. BOWEN
PTE. G. PEEVER
PTE. H. REISE
PTE. R. ROBINSON
PTE. R. THORNTON
PTE. W. WOODCOX

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