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Sooke Cenotaph

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Municipality/Province: Sooke, BC

Memorial number: 59005-002

Type: Granite stele

Address: 6726 Eustace Road

Location: Royal Canadian Legion Branch 54

GPS coordinates: Lat: 48.377508   Long: -123.7253059

Submitted by: Marjorie Chester

This memorial, erected by the Royal Canadian Legion, is dedicated to those from the area who have served in the First and Second World Wars, the Korean War, and as peacekeepers.


Inscription found on memorial

[front/devant]

[upper plaque]

ROLL OF HONOUR
1914-1918

GEORGE POWELL
MARTIN GOODALL
WILLIAM DRUMMOND
HARRY RICHARDSON
JOHN ERSKINE
CURTIS C. TRENCHARD
ALEC HUGHES
ISAAC GOUDIE
EMMOTT SNOWDEN
HARRY GORDON
A.J. NICKSON
LIONEL R. WALKER
MORRIS CULL

PHILIP B. SNAPE

[lower plaque]

1939-1945

VICTOR BRAILSFORD
REGINALD CAFFERY
WILLIAM DUNCAN
JOHN GATES
ELMO GEDDES
STEWART KITCHING
GEORGE LORIMER
ROBERT MUGFORD
VICTOR SYRETT
JOHN WALKER

GEORGE WOODHAMS

[bottom inscription]

IN LOVING MEMORY
OF THE MEN FROM SOOKE
WHO DIED IN THE GREAT WAR

 

[side plaque/plaque côté]

CANADIAN MERCHANT NAVY
MARINE MARCHANDE CANADIENNE
1914-18  1939-45  1950-53
THE                       POUR LA
LIFE LINE               SURVIE
OF THE                 DU MONDE
WORLD                    LIBRE

 

[side plaque/plaque côté]

KOREA
1950-1953

[side plaque/plaque côté]

THE PEACEKEEPERS
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM

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