Alberta Law Society Great War Plaque

Municipality/Province: Calgary, AB

Memorial number: 48002-072

Type: Plaque

Address: 601 5th Street South West

Location: Calgary Courts Centre

GPS coordinates: Lat: 51.04740152974396 Long: -114.07412137542924

Submitted by: Victoria Edwards

The Law Socierty of Alberta erected a memorial plaque in memory of the Barristers and Students who fell in the Great War.

Imperial War Graves Commission member Rudyard Kipling recommended the inscription "Their names liveth for evermore" which has widely be inscribed on war memorials since the First World War. The phrase "Their names liveth for evermore" from the King James Version of the Bible, forms the second half of a line in Ecclesiasticus or Sirach, chapter 44, verse 14.

The Legal Archives Society of Alberta’s project titled “We Have Not Forgotten” involved a Bar Call ceremony on November 9, 2018 in the Ceremonial Court at the Calgary Court Center. Families of some of the fallen soldiers were in attendance and stood in for their respective Bar Calls. In memory and recognition of the sacrifice of Alberta students-at-law who enlisted in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and who served therewith in the Great War of 1914-1918, and who lost their lives in service of our country in said War, the Law Society of Alberta waives all enrolment requirements and acknowledges they are entitled to be posthumously admitted to the Law Society of Alberta in 2018. Patrick Shea, QC, a partner at Gowling WLG in Toronto, has been working for several years to gather information about articling students across Canada who died in World War I.

Lieutenant Thoburn Stephens Allan, MC	Private Herbert Joseph Ball	Private Francis Benedict Barnes	Private Percy Douglas Sinclair Broad
Private Bernal Benjamin Brown	Major John Francis Costigan	Private Henry Humphreys Dinning	Lieutenant Albert Graham Eakins
Lieutenant John Norris Eaton	Lance Corporal Nelson Rankin English	Captain John Ogilvie Fairlie	Lieutenant Thomas Harold Fennell
Second Lieutenant Samuel Cranswick Ferguson	Trooper Maxwell Donald Fraser	Corporal Desmond St. Clair George	Private Joseph Albert Gordon
Lieutenant Pierre-Eugene Guay, MC	Private George Mason Lavell	Private William Alfred Lipsett	Lieutenant William Roberts Lister, MC
Corporal John William Gow Logan	Driver John MacPherson	Sergeant John Dalton MacWilliams	Lieutenant Warine Frederick Martindale
Lieutenant William Carey McKee	Lance Corporal Thomas Gordon McLean	Second Lieutenant Douglas Rutherford Morison	Lance Corporal Frank Procter Oldroyd
Lieutenant Frederick Arnott Perraton	Captain Ernest Frederick John Vernon Pinkham	Second Lieutenant Llewellyn Isaac Hilton Roberts	Corporal Alexander Everett Ross
Private Harold Alexander Skene	Second Lieutenant Roy Clarke Steckley	Lance Corporal Edwin Donald Forgie Wilson	Major Joshua Stanley Wright
Major James Christian Lawrence Young

Inscription found on memorial

1914-1919

Their deeds our glory

Erected by the Law Socierty of Alberta in memory of the Barristers and Students who fell in the Great War

Barristers

Students

Their names liveth forevermore

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Date modified:: 2021-03-03