Port Elgin Cenotaph
Municipality/Province: Port Elgin, ON
Memorial number: 35033-009
Type: Pillar, bust, slabs
Address: 624 Mill Street
Location: Cenotaph Park
GPS coordinates: Lat: 44.4372095 Long: -81.387099
Submitted by: Robert Shipley
Photo credit: Tim Laye, Ontario War Memorials
This monument was originally erected in 1903, to honour the loss of Trooper Gordon Cummings, killed on his 25th birthday in the South African War.
In 1924, the citizens of Port Elgin and Saugeen Township erected two matching memorials at the site to honour those lost in the Great War. In 1962, the stones were re-carved to add the names of those lost in the Second World War. Additional carvings were added in 1986 to commemorate the Korean War.
The Cenotaph Park was officially opened in September of 2006, with help of local councils and Branch 340 of the Royal Canadian Legion. The memorial gardens and trees are planted in honour of our veterans.
Inscription found on memorial
[front/devant]
IN MEMORY OF
TROOPER GORDON CUMMINGS
OF KITCHENER'S HORSE, KILLED AT THE
BATTLE OF NOOITGEDACHT,
SOUTH AFRICA DECEMBER 13, 1900;
WHILE GALLANTLY ATTEMPTING TO
PROCURE AMMUNITION FOR HIS COLUMN.
SON OF PATRICK AND BARBARA CUMMINGS.
BORN IN SAUGEEN, DEC. 13, 1875
[left slab/dalle de gauche]
OUR HONOURED FALLEN
PORT ELGIN
1914 - 1918
CAPT. SMITH
LIEUT. R. THOMPSON
SGT.MAJ. A. CHRISTIAN
PTE. R. ATKINSON
C. CROSSWELL
M. GILBERT
J. NUNN
S. HARMAN
J. GREGG
T. JACKSON
D. McGILLIVRAY
H. McARTHUR
D. McINTYRE
W. WILLOUGHBY
C. SPARLING
M. MOULTON
J. SALEMAN
1939 - 1945
MAJ J.A. HOWE
CAPT. GEO. EATON
F/O L. ERNST
F. VAUPEL
R. VAUPEL
J. MUIR
F/SGT. N. HETTRICK
SGT. J. STURGEON
L/BDR. J. JONES
PTE. D. STODDART
1950 KOREA 1953
[right slab/dalle de droite]
OUR HONOURED FALLEN
SAUGEEN TOWNSHIP
1914 - 1918
CAPT. L. TRANTER
LIEUT. J. GEDDES
PTE. T. BULGER
G. MUIR
O. CHRISTIE
R. GOWANLOCK
H. LEEDER
E. REINHART
J. MILLER
R. REANY
C. NICKLE
W. LYNESS
G. SWITZER
L. SCHELL
W. SWITZER
1939 - 1945
SPR. R. BLACK
1950 KOREA 1953
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