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1914 - 1919

"WHILE YET UNSTAINED OUR ANCIENT
BANNER KEEPS ITS PLACE OF PRIDE
LET NONE FORGET HOW GREAT A DEED
WE OWE TO THOSE WHO DIED"

"DULCE ET DECORUM EST
PRO PATRIA MORI"

• AXFORD, J.A.
• BAY, WM. B. LIEUT.
• BODEN, JAS E. SERGT.
• BOLTON, L.
• BROOKS, A.
• BULLOCK, R.H. LIEUT.
• BUTLER, F.C.
• BLAYLOCK, J.W.
• CAIRNS, WM. J.
• CAIRNS, C.R.
• CAMPBELL, D.
• CASEWELL, A.E.
• CLARKE, E.W.
• COCKS, H.J. LIEUT.
• CORMAN, F.M.
• CROSTHWAITE, T.
• CURTIS, S.B.
• DAVIS, W.J. LIEUT.
• FLINT, H.C.
• FLINT, RICHARD
• FOSTER, A.H.
• FOYLE, G.H.
• HENRY, L.B. MAJOR
• HORNING, J.I.
• MACDONALD, ALEXANDER
• HUDSON, L.
• JOHNSON, F.
• JOHNSON, M.ST.C.
• KIMMINS, A.E. MAJOR
• LEE, G.D. MAJOR
• LEE, H.E. LIEUT.
• LEE, E.C.
• LETTINGTON, A.
• LUTZ, R.C. LIEUT.
• McGREGOR, C.
• McNAIR, G.O.
• MILES, A.A. CORP.
• MILLARD, WM. S. LIEUT.
• PATTISON, C.E. LIEUT.
• PICKERING, H.V. LIEUT.
• PRENTICE, G. SERGT.
• PARKINSON, H.
• REAKES, V.
• SCOTT, S.W. LIEUT.
• SLADE, WM.A.D.
• SMYTHERS, A.
• TICE, P.W.
• VANDUZEN, C.
• WALTERS, H.
• PATTERSON, C.V.

A. D. 1922
HUBBARD, FREDRICK   BERRY, JOSEPH JAMES
VAN DUZER, HARRY  N. FLT. LIEUT.

THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE

ERECTED BY THE PEOPLE OF SALTFLEET
IN GRATEFUL REMEMBRANCE OF THE HEROIC
SACRIFICE BY THE MEN OF THIS TOWNSHIP
WHOSE NAMES APPEAR HEREON, WHO GAVE
THEIR LIVES FOR OUR EMPIRE IN
THE GREAT WAR  1914-1919

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1914 - 1919

YPRES
SOMME
FESTUBERT
GIVENCHY
PASSCHENDAELE
SANCTUARY WOOD
VIMY RIDGE
CAMBRAI
AMIENS
ARRAS
MONS

THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE

ERECTED A.D. 1922

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IN REMEMBRANCE OF THE CITIZENS OF
SALTFEET TOWNSHIP
WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE
IN WORLD WAR II.

• C. ANDREWS
• W.F. BOWLER
• J. CARLTON
• C. HILDRETH
• C. LYON
• W.J. PHILLIPS
• J. STRACHAN
• G.A. WILBUR
• G.C. BROWN
•  
• E.R. ATKINS
• W. BOWSLAUGH
• G.S. COTTINGTON
• L. HILL   F.J. HEURTER
• V. McCLUNG
• T. PRENTICE
• J. TOUTIN
• R. WILSON
• B. COLEMAN
• J.E. MOSHER
• R.S. BALSLEY
• D.C. BRIDGMAN
• J.B. CRONIN
• J. JONES
• A.J. McCONNELL
• G. READY
• W.E. TWEEDLE
• H. WOOLLEY
• H. COLEMAN
•  
• J.E. BOWLER
• P. DILLON
• F.C. LAMONT
• R. NAPPER
• F. SIMS  R. SIMS
• J. TYLER
• C. YOUNG
• G.C. BROWN
• L. DEAN
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1939-1945

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1950—KOREA—1953
M.A. TRUTHWAITE

COLONEL ROBERT NELLES 1761-1842

A Loyalist from the Mohawk Valley, New York, Nelles came
to Canada during the American Revolution and from 1780 to
1784 served in the Indian Department. Following hostilities
he settled near the Grand River but by 1792 had moved to
this area. Nelles built mills and a store on nearby Forty
-Mile Creek and soon became a prominent merchant. About
1798 he constructed a Georgian-style stone manor on this
site. Modified by later additions, notably the erection of the
Neo-classical porch in the 1820's, the house served as
Nelles' residence during his lengthy career as a justice of
the peace, member of the legislative assembly, and command
ing officer of the 4th Lincoln Militia.

Erected by the Ontario Heritage Foundation,
Ministry of Culture and Recreation

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Battle of Stoney Creek
La Bataille de Stoney Creek

During 1813 the Americans planned to invade Upper Canada from Detroit and the Niagara Peninsula.  In late May, an American force crossed the Niagara River, seized Fort George, and with about 3500 troops moved inland in pursuit of the British who retreated to Burlington Heights.  At Stoney Creek, a surprise night attack by about 700 regulars of the 8th and 49th Regiments of Foot under Lt.-Col. John Harvey halted the American advance and allowed the British to re-establish their position on the Niagara frontier.  The Americans retreated to Forty Mile Creek and subsequently to Fort George.

Vers la fin mai, 1813, des forces américaines traversèrent le Niagara, prirent le fort George et fortes d’environ 3500 hommes, pourchassèrent  à l'intérieur du pays les Britanniques qui battaient en retraite en direction de Burlington Heights. À Stoney Creek, grâce à une attaque surprise de nuit, quelque 700 réguliers des 8e et 49e régiments d’infanterie, sous les ordres du lieutenant-colonel John Harvey, arrêtérent l'avance américaine et permirent aux Britanniques de reprendre leur position à la frontière du Niagara. Les Américains se replièrent sur Forty Mile Creek et par la suite sur le Fort George.

Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada.
Commission de lieux et monuments historiques du Canada.

Government of Canada - 1940  -  Gouvernement du Canada

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Their Fame Liveth
Canada Remembers

Lieutenant Samuel Hooker
Sergeant Joseph Hunt
Privates         James Daig
                        Thomas Fernsides
                        Richard Hugill
                        George Longley
                        Laurence Meade
                        John Pegler
                        John Smith
                        John Wale

First Battalion of the Eighth Regiment of Foot
Sergeant Charles Page
Privates         James Adams
                        Alexander Brown
                        Michael Burke
                        Henry Carroll
                        Nathaniel Catlin
                        Martin Curley
                        Martin Donnolly
                        Peter Henley
                        John Hostller
                        Edward Killoran
                        Edward Little
                        Patrick Martin
                        John Maxell

Of the 49^th Regiment of Foot
Killed in action

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Her Royal Highness the Duchess of Connaught, Honorary President
Mrs. John Calder, President
Vice Presidents     Mrs. J. S. Hendrie
                                 Lady Gibson
                                 Mrs. John Crerar
                                 Mrs. T. W. Watkins
                                 Mrs. F. R. Waddell
                                 Miss E. M. Calder
Recording Secretary Miss Barker
Corresponding Secretary Mrs. Bertie E. Smith
Treasurer Mrs. E. G. Zealand
Historian Miss Nisbet
Trustees
Colonel Sir John M. Gibson K.C.M.C.
Lt. Col, the Hon. J. S. Hendrie C.V.O.M.L.A.
Thomas W. Watkins Esq.

Women’s Wentworth Historical Society

In the year 1899 this society purchased a portion of the Battlefield of Stoney Creek including the site presented to the Government for this Monument and on October 7^th the grounds was declared open as a public park by the Countess of Aberdeen.  In 1810 the Society made an additional purchase in all seventeen and a half acres of this historic ground preserved to the people of Canada.  On May 28^th 1909 the Countess Grey turned the first sod on the site of this Monument and on May 20^th 1920 Lt. General Sir John B. P. French C.B.K.C.H.C. laid the corner stone.  Unveiled in the hundredth year of peace.

[dedication stone]

UNVEILED BY ELECTRICITY JUNE 6TH 1913 BY

HER MAJESTY QUEEN MARY

THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED BY THE PEOPLE OF CANADA, COLONEL THE HONOURABLE SAM HUGHES BEING MINISTER OF MILITIA AND DEFENCE, TO COMMEMORATE THE BATTLE OF STONEY CREEK JUNE 6TH 1813.

THE BRITISH TROOPS UNDER COMMAND OF GENERAL VINCENT AND LIEUT. COLONEL HARVEY CONSISTED OF THE 49TH REG'T IN COMMAND OF MAJOR PLENDERLEATH AND FIVE COMPANIES OF THE 8TH OF KING'S IN COMMAND OF MAJOR OGILVIE, TO WHICH WAS ADDED THE VOLUNTEER ASSISTANCE OF THE SETTLERS HEREABOUTS LED BY CAPT. W.H.MERRITT OF THE CANADIAN MILITIA, THE TOTAL NUMBER BEING ABOUT SEVEN HUNDRED. THE AMERICAN FORCE NUMBERED UPWARDS OF THREE THOUSAND UNDER COMMAND OF GENERALS CHANDLER AND WINDER.

THEY WERE ENCAMPED IN THIS IMMEDIATE VICINITY WITH STAFF HEADQUARTERS IN THE GAGE FARM HOUSE, NOW MAINTAINED BY THE WOMENS WENTWORTH HISTORICAL SOCIETY THROUGH WHOSE REPRESENTATIONS AND UNDER WHOSE DIRECTION THIS MEMORIAL WAS BUILT.

IN THE DEAD OF NIGHT THE BRITISH ADVANCED FROM BURLINGTON HEIGHTS AND SURPRISING THE ENEMY, PUT HIM TO CONFUSION. THIS IS HELD TO HAVE BEEN THE DECISIVE ENGAGEMENT IN THE WAR OF 1812-13.

HERE THE TIDE OF INVASION WAS MET AND TURNED BY THE PIONEER PATRIOTS AND SOLDIERS OF THE KING OF ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO.

MORE DEADLY THAN THEIR LIVES THEY HELD THOSE PRINCIPLES AND TRADITIONS OF BRITISH LIBERTY OF WHICH CANADA IS THE INHERITOR.

[eight shield plaques on Monument tower]

Scout-Green
James Gage
Ogilvie
Merritt
Plenderleath
Harvey
Vincent
Fitzgibbon

ENGAGEMENT AT THE FORTY
L'ENGAGEMENT DE FORTY
MILE CREEK

Here at the Forty Mile Creek, on the 8th of June 1813, American
forces, retreating after the battle of Stoney Creek, were bom-
barded by a British Flotilla under Sir James Lucas Yeo. Indians
and groups of the 4th and 5th Regiments Lincon Milita j
oined in the attack and created such confusion in the enemy
ranks that they abandoned this position and retreated to Fort
George.

Ici, à Forty Mile Creek, le 8 juin 1813, des forces américaines
qui se repliaient après la bataille de Stoney Creek furent bom-
bardées par une flottille britannique sous les ordres de sir
James Lucas Yeo. Des Indiens et des groupes des 4e et 5e
Régiments de la milice Lincon participèrent à l'attaque et
semèrent une telle confusion dans les rangs ennemis que ces
derniers abandonnèrent leur position et se replièrent au fort
George.

Historic Sites and Monuments Board of Canada
Commission des lieux et monuments historiques du Canada

Government of Canada - 1955 - Gouvernement du Canada

1914 - 1918

Henry Austin
Robert Follett Best
Ernest Buck
Edwin Bingham Cox
Linsday Drummond
Alfred F. Godier
Charles Grand
James C. Hartney
Joseph Grant Helliwell
Elton W. Helmer
Samuel Tree Jerred
William Metivier
K.A. MacDougall
John Hodgins Neil
Robert James Ross
B. Ross Swenerton
Kenneth Marsden Van Allen

3RD CANADIAN BATTALION TORONTO REGIMENT
IN
MEMORY
OF
OFFICERS, NCO's AND MEN
THEIR TAMING OF ORIX TRENCH
KILLED
IN
ACTION

Private Harry John Barrett
Private Frank Bernard Benton
Private Alfred James Brent
Captain Norman Cliff
Lieutenant George Rowland Collin
Private William Collins
Private Henry Dearden
Private David Dickson
Private Charles William Didemus
Private Reginald Stanley Franklin
Private Louis William George
Private Adam Gray
Lieutenant Burnett Grosvenor
Private Frank Arthur Edward Heming
Private Wilfred Lee
Private George Henry Lush 
Private William Campbell Andrew Lyon
Private Lynn Riggs MacIntyre
Private Henry Marriott
Lance Corporal Donald John McLarty 
Private Andrew O'Brien
Private William Augustus O'Donohoe
Company Sergeant Major George Rodger
Lieutenant Edward Slattery
Private John Sydney Smith
Private Russel Smith