The Victoria Park Memorial Gates were unveiled on 1 August 1948, by the Business and Professional Women's Club of Cobourg in memory of the "Cobourg boys" killed during the Second World War. They were designed by Dunnington Grubb, a well-known landscape architect.
Cobourg, Ontario
Type
Other
Inscription
[left pillar/pilier gauche]
(front/devant)
VICTORIA
PARK
(right side/côté droit)
THEY SHALL NOT GROW 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.
ERECTED TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND IN GRATEFUL MEMORY BY
THE BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL
WOMEN'S CLUB OF COBOURG
AUGUST 1, 1948
[right pillar/pilier gauche]
(front/devant)
VICTORIA
PARK
(left side/côté gauche)
TO THE FALLEN
1939-1945
- BEACH, ROY F.
- BOLSTER, JOHN
- BOUNDRY, ALIAN
- BOSWELL, DAVID D.
- BOWEN, HENRY L.
- BRADBURY, CLIFFORD D.
- BROWN, RALPH
- BULGER, LLOYD
- CREIGHTON, JOHN
- CLEMENT, ROGER
- CHAPMAN, JOHN
- DENTON, DOUGLAS
- DREWRY, FREDERICK W.
- EDWARDS, ROBERT
- FICHT, DONALD
- FLESCH, ARNOLD, L.
- GALLAGHER, GERALD
- HAYWARD, PETER
- HIE, ELWOOD
- STEWART, DAVID
- JACOBSON, CHARLES M.
- LEETHAM, HARRY
- LONSBERRY, FRED
- MEDHURST, GEORGE
- MITCHELLE, EUGENE
- MCDONNELL, MURRAY E.
- MCGUIRE, HARRY F.
- MCIVOR, ELGIN
- MCKENZIE, DONALD F.
- MCMURDO, JOHN
- NICHOLSON, ALLAN L.
- PAGE, DONALD
- PHILLLIPS, CAMERON
- ROLLINGS, WILLIAM A.
- SCHLEIHAUF, HOMER
- TITFORD C, K. (BILL)
- THOMPSON, ALEX
- WAGHORN, JACK
- WHYTE, LLOYD
[plaque]
ERECTED TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THE BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL BUSINESS CLUB OF COBOURG AUG 1ST 1948 AND THE NAMES OF THOSE COBOURG BOYS THAT DIED IN 1939 TO 1945
Visitor information
Location
Victoria Park Memorial Gates
57 King Street East
Cobourg
Ontario
Victoria Park Memorial Gates
57 King Street East
Cobourg
Ontario
GPS Coordinates
Lat. 43.9605249
Long. -78.1627425
Lat. 43.9605249
Long. -78.1627425