Private Welsley A. Hull Memorial
Municipality/Province: Ottawa, ON
Memorial number: 35059-253
Type: Shaft (or stone shaft)
Address: 3924 Russell Road
Location: St. George's Cemetery, Hawthorne
GPS coordinates: Lat: 45.3850915 Long: -75.5956411
Photo credit: Richard Turcotte
This memorial was erected in memory of Private Wellesley Alexander Hull. It should be noted that Wellesley Alexander Hull's name is variously spelled "Wellesley", "Welsley" or "Wesley", in different documents.
Wellesley Alexander Hull was born in January 1873 and grew up in a prominent family of Billings Bridge, a small village that was located near the present-day intersection of Bank Street and Riverside Drive in Ottawa. As a young man, he joined the 43rd Rifles, a militia unit based in Ottawa. He later transferred to the Princess Louise Dragoon Guards. He deployed to South Africa, as part of the first contingent of the Canadian Mounted Rifles, arriving in Cape Town in February 1900. Hull took part in the Battalion's early operations, but fell ill and died on June 7, 1900. Wellesley Alexander Hull is buried at the Kroonstad Garden of Remembrance, next to the Kroonstad hospital on Du Toit Street, South Africa.
This memorial was originally located next to the Orangemen's Lodge at the intersection of Bank Street and Riverside Drive, in the then village of Billings Bridge. In 1960, it was removed to allow for the widening of Riverside Drive and was placed in storage until 1997. After numerous petitions from the Lodge members, the City of Ottawa rededicated the monument at St. George's Hawthorne Anglican Cemetery, as many Hull family members are interred there.
Inscription found on memorial
[front/devant]
ERECTED
BY THE MEMBERS OF
O.Y.B. LODGE NO. 48
BILLINGS BRIDGE
AND BROTHER ORANGEMEN
AND
ORANGE YOUNG BRITTONS
ON
JULY 1ST 1902. HULL.
[left side/côté gauche]
S.S.S.
IN MEMORY OF
OUR LATE BROTHER
WELSLEY A. HULL
OF THE FIRST CONTINGENT
CANADIAN MOUNTED RIFLES
BORN JANUARY 6TH 1873
DIED SOUTH AFRICA JUNE 7TH 1900.
[right side/côté droit]
COMMITTEE
ROBERT PRESTON W.M.
GEO. CUTTS SEC'Y
ALF. A. BELOT TREAS.
Street view
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