Rossland Cenotaph
Municipality/Province: Rossland, BC
Memorial number: 59033-045
Type: Obelisk
Address: 2180 Columbia Ave
Location: Next to Rossland Public Library
GPS coordinates: Lat: 49.0768748 Long: -117.7977092
Photo credit: Irene Krewski (RCL Br. 14)
This cenotaph was first dedicated by the Rossland Branch of the Great War Veterans’ Association of Canada on November 11, 1921, to those who fought in the Great War. It was erected by funds from the commissions of the Victory Bond Campaign Committee, along with help from the City of Rossland. After the Dominion War Department gave Rossland captured German trophies, the memorial was further developed in the spring.
On July 1, 1997, the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 14 rededicated the memorial to those who fought in the Second World War and the Korean War by adding plaques. Those who served during the Boer War were commemorated on the cenotaph with the Legion adding a plaque on September 9, 2000.
The Peace and Remembrance Mural is located next to the memorial.
Inscription found on memorial
[first tier/premier niveau]
(south side plaque/plaque du côté sud)
IN MEMORY OF THOSE
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
1899 BOER WAR 1901
CW COTTERILL
BH LEE
E MACKINTOSH
[second tier/deuxième niveau]
(south side plaque/plaque du côté sud)
IN
GLORIOUS MEMORY
OF THE THE FOLLOWING
CITY OF ROSSLAND MEN
WHO MADE THE
SUPREME SACRIFICE.
WORLD WAR II
1939 - 1945
JACK C. LEES
ROBERT J. MARTELLO
ROY A. JOHNSON
GARTH BELEY
CLIFFORD MORRIS
JOHN McLELLAN
ARTHUR W. OGG
DAVID FUNK
(east side plaque/plaque du côté est)
IN
GLORIOUS MEMORY
OF THE FOLLOWING
CITY OF ROSSLAND MEN
WHO MADE THE
SUPREME SACRIFICE
WORLD WAR II
1939 - 1945
CLIFFORD J. LEWIS
EDMOND T. COX
RANDOLPH S. CHURCHILL
ELWOOD T. PHILLIPS
BARRY F. CLEETON
EDWARD S. COUTURE
JOHN W. CLARK
DICK WATSON
(west side plaque/plaque du côté ouest)
IN
GLORIOUS MEMORY
OF THE FOLLOWING
CITY OF ROSSLAND MEN
WHO MADE THE
SUPREME SACRIFICE
WORLD WAR II
1939 - 1945
THOMAS DUNNE
R. EARL COULTER
W. JAMES HARPER
JAMES N. A. WRIGHT
JOHN B. RICHARDSON
WILLIAM OZEROFF
JACK TONGUE
(north side/plaque du côté nord)
KOREA
1950 - 1953
[third tier/troisième niveau]
(south side inscription/inscription du côté sud)
IN MEMORY OF
THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
FOR HUMANITY IN THE
1914 GREAT WAR 1918
HE THAT GIVES HIS LIFE FOR
A PRINCIPLE
DEEMED BY HIM TO BE JUST
IS A HERO
(east side inscription/inscription du côté est)
R. RAKOVICH
H. HOLMES
J. PAUL
A. LINDSEY
Z. NIKITOVICH
J. DAWSON
H. PACKER
R. BOWIE
R. GUN
E.J. LEE
F.S. OLIVER
[west side inscription/inscription du côté ouest]
E.V. BLOOMFIELD
E.H.V. WILDER
M. JANICH
J. MELLACH
J. KEARNEY
A. CAMPBELL
H. BOWERS
A.G. LEESON
G. WALLACE
T. TALBOT
J. TREWHELLA
(north side inscription/inscription du côté nord)
T. CROSS
J.INCHES
J. COCKING
T. WALLACE
A. McLEAN
J.A. PAULL
C.E. ADAMS
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