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Son of Robie Sewall Sterns and Mary Henrietta Sterns (nee Smith).
Digital gallery of Private Sydney Smith Sterns
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Private Sydney Smith Sterns
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Private Sydney Smith Sterns
This stained glass window was erected at St. John's Cathedral, 816 Spadina Crescent, Saskatoon, SK. This window is dedicated to the memory of Sidney S. Sterns, who was killed at Passchendaele on 30 October 1917.
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[First window/première vitrail]
Installed by friends and relatives in fond memory of
[Second window/deuxième vitrail]
Sidney S. Sterns
Killed at Passchendaele
Oct. 30 1917
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Photo Credit: Susan Harmer
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Private Sydney Smith Sterns
Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
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This stained glass window was erected at St. John's Cathedral, 816 Spadina Crescent, Saskatoon, SK. This window is dedicated to the memory of Sidney S. Sterns, who was killed at Passchendaele on 30 October 1917. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- [First window/première vitrail] Installed by friends and relatives in fond memory of [Second window/deuxième vitrail] Sidney S. Sterns Killed at Passchendaele Oct. 30 1917 http://www.cmp-cpm.forces.gc.ca/dhh-dhp/nic-inm/sm-rm/mdsr-rdr-eng.asp?PID=2206 Photo Credit: Susan Harmer
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Inscription on the Menin Gate … photo courtesy of Marg Liessens
In the Books of Remembrance
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Page 332 of the First World War Book of Remembrance.
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MENIN GATE (YPRES) MEMORIAL Belgium
The Menin Gate Memorial is situated at the eastern side of the town of Ypres (now Ieper) in the Province of West Flanders, on the road to Menin and Courtrai. It bears the names of 55,000 men who were lost without trace during the defence of the Ypres Salient in the First World War. Designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield and erected by the Imperial (now Commonwealth) War Graves Commission, it consists of a Hall of Memory", 36.6 metres long by 20.1 metres wide. In the centre are broad staircases leading to the ramparts which overlook the moat, and to pillared loggias which run the whole length of the structure. On the inner walls of the Hall, on the side of the staircases and on the walls of the loggias, panels of Portland stone bear the names of the dead, inscribed by regiment and corps. Carved in stone above the central arch are the words:
TO THE ARMIES OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE WHO STOOD HERE FROM 1914 TO 1918 AND TO THOSE OF THEIR DEAD WHO HAVE NO KNOWN GRAVE.
Over the two staircases leading from the main Hall is the inscription:
HERE ARE RECORDED NAMES OF OFFICERS AND MEN WHO FELL IN YPRES SALIENT BUT TO WHOM THE FORTUNE OF WAR DENIED THE KNOWN AND HONOURED BURIAL GIVEN TO THEIR COMRADES IN DEATH.
The dead are remembered to this day in a simple ceremony that takes place every evening at 8:00 p.m. All traffic through the gateway in either direction is halted, and two buglers (on special occasions four) move to the centre of the Hall and sound the Last Post. Two silver trumpets for use in the ceremony are a gift to the Ypres Last Post Committee by an officer of the Royal Canadian Artillery, who served with the 10th Battery, of St. Catharines, Ontario, in Ypres in April 1915."
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