Thornbury Cenotaph
Municipality/Province: Thornbury, ON
Memorial number: 35078-063
Type: Stele
Address: Duncan Street East and Bruce Street South
Location: Jack Acres Memorial Park
GPS coordinates: Lat: 44.5515934 Long: -80.4634775
Submitted by: Derek Pullen
The Thornbury Cenotaph was erected in 1975 at Jack Acres Memorial Park on Russell Street, by the Royal Canadian Legion Beaver Valley Branch 281 to honour those from the area who died in the two World Wars. On 1 November 2019, it was relocated to its current location and re-dedicated on 7 June 2020.
The In Flanders Fields benches were removed when the cenotaph was moved and are currently in storage.
Inscription found on memorial
[front/devant]
LEST WE FORGET
THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN LOVING
MEMORY OF THE MEN OF THORNBURY
WHO FOUGHT AND DIED IN THE GREAT WARS
1914 - 1918
A. LYNE
F. WHATELY
E. WHATELY
G. WOOD
R. PETHER
A. SLADDEN
B. PARKINSON
1939 - 1945
ROBERT A. MARTIN
MASON HARGRAEVES
ALFRED ABBOTTS
WILLIAM L. GILLESPIE
IRWIN J. HARMER
DOUGLAS LOUGHEED
DEDICATED TO THOSE WHO SERVED
IN THEIR MAJESTIES' FORCES
BY BEAVER VALLEY BRANCH 281
ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION
1975
[bench/banc]
In Flanders fields
the poppies blow
Between the crosses,
row on row
LEST WE FORGET
Street view
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