Port Credit Cenotaph

Mississauga, Ontario

Type

Other

Mississauga’s oldest cenotaph, originally known as the Port Credit and Vicinity Soldiers’ Memorial, was unveiled on November 9, 1925. The Port Credit Cenotaph was built to honour the men who lost their lives during the First World War. In 1946, the names of men who fell during the Second World War were added. A further inscription of the men who fell during the Korean War was made in 1983 on the 30th anniversary of the Korean War.

The cenotaph was planned by the Soldiers’ Memorial Committee, headed by W. T. Gray and George W. Gordon. It was designed and constructed by Louis Temporale (recipient of the Order of Canada for master craftsmanship in stone masonry). The cenotaph design is known as the Cross of Sacrifice.

The unveiling ceremony began with a parade of Veterans forming a guard of honour, led by Maj. John Hughes. The unveiling was performed by the lieutenant governor of Ontario, Col. Henry Cockshutt who had served in the First World War as a Lieutenant-Colonel.

Inscription

[front/devant]
THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVER MORE ERECTED AN*DOM* 1925

1914 - 1918 1939 - 1945
THOSE WHOM THIS MEMORIAL
COMMEMORATES WERE NUMBERED
AMONG THOSE WHO, AT THE CALL
OF KING AND COUNTRY, LEFT
ALL THAT WAS DEAR TO THEM,
ENDURED HARDNESS, FACED DANGER,
AND FINALLY PASSED OUT OF
THE SIGHT OF MEN BY THE PATH
OF DUTY AND SELF-SACRIFICE,
GIVING UP THEIR OWN LIVES, THAT
OTHERS MAY LIVE IN FREEDOM.

LET THOSE WHO COME AFTER
SEE TO IT THAT THEIR NAMES
BE NOT FORGOTTEN.

[front left/devant gauche]
1914 - 1918
GEORGE ALEXANDER
DAVID ANDERSON
CYRIL R. BARBER
CYRIL BOGG
SYDNEY BUTLER
JAMES J. CLARKE
JOHN CROW
G. GORDON DUNCAN
ALAN B. DUNCAN, M.C.
ARTHUR FRY
A. DOUGLAS GRAY, M.C.
WILLIAM GREEN
GEORGE O. HALL
WILLIAM HIBBERT
EDWARD C. INNES
REUBEN CRAWFORD

[front right/devant droit]
1914 - 1918
WILLIAM KEE, M.M.
C. NAIRNE LEE
JOHN LEVISON
FRANK W. OTT, M.C.
A. STANLEY PARKER
GEORGE PEARSON
W. DOUGLAS REED
E. ROSSITER
G. SCOTT, M.C.
CHRISTOPHER SULLIVAN, M.M.
ADRIAN STEWART
FRED A. TAPP
DOULGAS C. THOMSON
ALEXANDER T. THOMSON, D.S.O., M.C.
HOWARD S. SHAVER

[left side/côté gauche]
1914 - 1918
SOMME
GIVENCHY
ARRAS
YPRES
VIMY
ST. ELOI
PASSCHENDALE
COURCELETTE
MOUNT SORREL
AMIENS
MONS
CAMBRAY
LENS
CANAL DU NORD

[right side/côté droit]

1939 - 1945
NORTH ATLANTIC
DIEPPE
RUHR VALLEY
SCHELDT ESTUARY
FALAISE
ORTONA
BATTLE OF BRITAIN
KOREA
1950 - 1953

[back right/arrière droit]
1939 - 1945
S. ADAMSON
D. ANDERSON
T. ANDERSON
M.F. BALLARD
J. BATE
W. BEATON
A. BEAVER
A. BELL
L. BLOCK
H.R. BLOWER
E.J. BREWSTER
W.L. BREWSTER
D. BURGESS
R. BURKE
R.C. BUTLER
E.W. CARLSON
A.M. CHEESEMAN
W. CHUBB
H. CLUFF
M. CONAGHAN

[back center/arrière centre]
1939 - 1945
J. KITCHENER
J. KUROSKY
A. LEUTY
E.F. MacKENZIE
W.J. McGILLION
M. McLAUGHLIN
J.A. McLEOD
L. NASH
F. NASH
I.H. NICHOLSON
C.H. NOER
H.F. ORR
A.T. PASHAK
J. PHILBROOK
W.C. PICKERING
R.R. RIDLEY
M. ROBERTSON

F.J. RUNDLE
J. SALMOND
W.H. SHAVER
F. SHEEPWASH
G. SPENCER Jr.
O. STEPHENS
L. STOCKWELL
C. TOMPKINS
B. WALLACE
J. WALTERHOUSE
S. WATSON
D. WILSON
J.W. WILSON
K.B. WOODS
A.D. WRIGHT
W.M. YOUNGER

MISSING: -W.G. MILNE : E.P. BURNS

[back left/arrière gauche]
1939 - 1945
M. COSTELLO
P.L. COTE
E.J. COTTON
A. CROCKER
T.E. CROTHERS
L. De MARCO
W. DONALDSON
R. FASKIN
J.H. FORDEN
F. FOWLER
R. GARDNER
GEROIUX
E.D. GLASS
T.R. GODFREY
E. GOOD
J. HANNABY
C. HARE
R.H. HARPER
E. HOLNESS
P. HUSSEY