Dropmore Cenotaph

Dropmore Cenotaph

Dropmore, Manitoba

Type

Other

In 1919, the citizens of Dropmore and surrounding districts erected a ten-foot high, white marble needle-stone memorial dedicated to the local war dead of the First World War. An image of a beaver chewing on a sapling is located above the inscription. It was unveiled on May 24, 1919, by Mrs. Neville.

The cenotaph was restored in the late 1990s and again in 2021.

Inscription

FOR KING AND COUNTRY
1914 - 1918

PTE. HUGH BERTRAM HEATHER P.P.C.L.I.
FESTUBERT, MAR. 21, 1915.
LCE CORP'L WILLIAM DOUGLAS WATSON 16TH CAN. SCOTTISH
SOMME, SEPT. 4, 1916.
LCE CORP'L IRA A. LEFLAR 43RD CAMERON HIGHLANDERS
COURCELTTE, SEPT. 20, 1916.
MAJOR LEONARD S. GYSIN 90TH WINNIPEG RIFLES
SOMME, SEPT. 26, 1916.
PTE. FRANK HUNT 16TH CAN. SCOTTISH
BULLY GRENAY, FEBRUARY 7, 1917
PTE. ARTHUR WINTER HUNT 16TH CAN. SCOTTISH
VIMY RIDGE, APR. 9, 1917.
PTE. JOHN GRAY 16TH CAN. SCOTTISH
VIMY RIDGE, APRIL 10, 1917.
CORP'L KENNETH A. CLARK 2ND C.M. GUN BATTN
AMIENS, AUG. 8, 1918.
CORP'L ERNEST THEOBALD C.M.P.
CAMBRAI, SEPT. 1, 1918.
LIEUT. RALPH NEVILL M.C. 78TH CAN. INF
BOURLON WOOD, SEPT. 30, 1918.

ERECTED BY THE PEOPLE OF DROPMORE & VICINITY
IN MEMORY OF
THE BOYS FROM DROPMORE
WHO WERE KILLED IN THE GREAT WAR
1914 - 1918