The Morewood Cenotaph Committee honored their fallen on the 100th anniversary of the original unveiling of the cenotaph - July 6, 2021, by installing 21 mini-monuments - ten along each side - one for each of those who had given their lives, and one by itself at the back representing all who returned. A portrait of Bernice Wilburn Fetterly is etched into his memorial. He stood 5 foot 6 ½ inches, had black hair and blue eyes. He had a small circular scar on his left ear.
Wilburn was a Farmer before the war. He departed Halifax aboard the RMS Missinabie on 19 June 1916 and was transferred to the 73rd Battalion, Canadian Infantry, Royal Highlanders on 3 July 1916. He had asked a friend who had enlisted with him to write home in case of his death which his friend did on 5 November 1916. The letter was published in the Chesterville Record on 30 November:
“The boys are good and it was great the way they helped me carry him to the dressing station under the rain of shells…
Those who looked on said it was a wonder we were not all blown to bits, but we never thought of that, and my object was to get him to a dressing station as quickly as possible. I knew he had been hit pretty badly but he seemed so strong and wanted to sit up and did three or four times, that I thought he would be all right.
One other poor fellow lost his life getting Wilburn in. He got hit in the thigh and died at the dressing station, so you see what one comrade will do for another here. The same sniper nearly got the other fellow also, but missed. I was about fifty yards from where it happened and it all occurred in a time you could count three.”
The 20 pillars representing individual soldiers are in alphabetic order. The 21st pillar sits in the shadow of the cenotaph and between the two rows.
