Lunenburg First World War Monument
Municipality/Province: Lunenburg, NS
Memorial number: 12009-008
Type: Granite statue and stele
Address: Beside 120 Townsend Street
Location: Municipal park
GPS coordinates: Lat: 44.37778 Long: -64.30952
Submitted by: Marilyn Gurney; Stemnet
This memorial was erected by the town of Lunenburg to honour the local citizens who served during the First World War. This large memorial is a four-sided and made of grey granite. On the top is a life size statue of an infantry soldier. Above the inscriptions on each of the four sides is an indecipherable crest, same on all four sides.
Inscription found on memorial
[front/devant]
THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED BY THE CITIZENS OF THE TOWN OF LUNENBURG TO THE HONOURED MEMORY OF THE HEROES NAMES HEREON WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR KING AND COUNTRY AND IN HONOUR OF THE GALLANT SOLDIERS FROM THIS TOWN AND VICINITY WHO SERVED SO VALIANTLY IN THE GREAT WAR
1914 - 1918
YPRES 1915
[left side/côté gauche]
FRED CONRAD
GEORGE DIEHL
EZRA FEENER
HARRY GREER
BRUNO HEBB
CECIL HEBB
ROGER HYNICK
ROY KING
OSCAR LEGAG
WILLIAM NOWE
NORMAN TANNER
W.C. WALTERS
ISAAC WILKIE
HARVEY YOUNG
LUKE YOUNG
LEO ZINCK
DULCE ET DECORUM EST PRO PATRIA MORE
SOMME 1916
[back/arrière]
IN FLANDERS FIELDS THE POPPIES BLOW BETWEEN THE CROSSES ROW ON ROW THAT MARK OUR PLACE
AND THE LARKS STILL BRAVELY SINGING FLY SCARCE HEARD AMIDST THE GUNS BELOW WE ARE THE DEAD - SHORT DAYS AGO WE LIVED, FELT DAWN, SAW SUNSET GLOW, LOVED AND WERE LOVED, AND NOW WE LIE IN FLANDERS FIELDS
WAR DECLARED AUGUST 4, 1914
ARMISTICE SIGNED NOVEMBER 11, 1918
PEACE DECLARED JULY 19, 1918
VIMY 1917
[right side/côté droit]
IN MEMORIAM
DEBNEY BAILEY
SYDNEY BARRINGER
CLARENCE CONRAD COSSMAN
CECIL ARNOLD LOHNES
LAWRENCE LOHNES
ERIC HAMILTON LANE
NELSON MEISTER
ADOLPHUS MORASH
H. MARSHALL MOSSMAN
DONALD PURCELL
STEWART RICHARDSON
CLARENCE RITCIE
ELSON SCHWARTZ
HARRY SHUPE
BEVERLEY SMITH
ELLISWORTH SMITH
CARLOS WINFRID
MOSHER JOHN SJOLIN
PASSCHENDALE 1918
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