Fort Erie War Memorial
Municipality/Province: Fort Erie, ON
Memorial number: 35019-006
Type: Statue
Address: Mather Circle
Location: Mather Park
GPS coordinates: Lat: 42.9000685 Long: -78.9183949
Submitted by: Shipley
The Fort Erie War Memorial is a large marble slab, engraved with the names of the dead, with a statue of a World War One soldier on top. It was installed by the Niagara Parks Commision in a park-like setting, overlooking Lake Erie and the start of the Niagara River. The city of Buffalo, New York sits across the lake. Only a few hundred metres away is the restored Fort Erie, the site of a several historic battles during the War of 1812.
Inscription found on memorial
[front/devant]
World War 1, World War 2, Korea
They gave their today for our tomorrow
WORLD WAR 1 1914-1918
WORLD WAR II 1939-1945
KOREA 1950-1953
[left side/côté gauche]
1939-1945
Donald A. Nixon, John R. Kee, Jack McSpadden, Earl D. White, Elmer Dranger, Charles Partimer, James Moore, Allen W. Troup, Ross C. Clouston, John Dietrich, Harry R. Thyret, Robert R. Wallace, Lloyd G. Erdman, Howard E. Warren, C. Bruce Thompson.
[back/arrière]
1914-1918
OUR HONOURED DEAD
Thomas Langstaff, George Gass, Hubert Dewey Mills, William Arthur Smith, B. Venzeno, Harry Thomas Wardell, Arthur Charles Prior, Charles Hubbard, George O'Donnell, William Atkinson, Frank Darton, Gordon Ferguson, John Byers, Edward Francis H. Bailey, William Louis Barnhart, Ernest Plato, Alfred James Pardoe, Herbert Harry Gear, Edward James Hare, Charles Ball, James Andrew Russell, John Harold Richmond, Leslie Edwards, Alfred James Osborne, Thomas Pengelley, John Bright, Donald Gordon McLean, Henry Garfield Campbell, William MacKendrick Henry, Morris Roy Bunn, Alfred Ingalls, Leslie James Yule, Edward Sutherland Malkin, Charles John Fickel, Robert Watson, Cecil Kendall, William Albert Randall, James Arthur Colin Campbell, Frank Haliburton Russel.
THEIR NAME LIVETH FOREVER MORE
[right side/côté droit]
1939-1945
James E. Osborn, Carl Sauer, R.D. Robertson, Thomas DiPietro, Carl Oswald, Ben R. Cunliffe, Fred G. Thompson, William Prow, Hartford Cook, Geo D. Fitz-gibbon, Earl W. Lemcke, Frank H. Walden, Gordon Barnhart, Charles Rose, Donald G. Leask, Earl L.G. Speakman, Roland Fisher, Frederick T. Gardner, John C. Wilhelms
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