Elliot Lake Memorial

Elliot Lake, Ontario

Type

Other

Erected by Royal Canadian Legion Branch No. 561 in 1998, this memorial is dedicated to those who died during the First and Second World Wars, the Korean War and on United Nations' peacekeeping missions. This memorial was rededicated in 2007 after it was updated to include Afghanistan.

The Elliot Lake Cairn was located here before it was replaced in 1998 with this memorial. A 20-mm anti-aircraft gun is also located here.

Inscription

[centre/centre]

LEST WE FORGET

WORLD WAR I
1914 - 1918

WORLD WAR II
1939 - 1945

KOREAN WAR
1950 - 1953

U.N. PEACE KEEPING OPERATIONS

[left/gauche]

IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO HAVE SERVED AND THOSE WHO HAVE PAID THE SUPREME SACRIFICE BY SEA, BY LAND AND IN THE AIR

THE ROYAL CANADIAN

[right/droite]

THEY SHALL GROW NOT OLD, AS WE THAT ARE LEFT GROW OLD. AGE SHALL NOT WEARY THEM, NOR THE YEARS CONDEMN. AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN AND IN THE MORNING, "WE WILL REMEMBER THEM"

LEGION BRANCH 561