Delaware Cenotaph
Municipality/Province: Delaware, ON
Memorial number: 35018-005
Type: Slab
Address: 11577 Longwoods Road
Location: Royal Canadian Legion, Branch 598
GPS coordinates: Lat: 42.906876 Long: -81.4205307
Submitted by: Greg Storms. Nancy J. Braley.
Photo credit: Tim Laye, Ontario War Memorials
This is a memorial dedicated to the local war dead of the First and Second World Wars.
Inscription found on memorial
[front/devant]
LEST WE FORGET
WORLD WAR I
PTE. THOMAS CUMMINGS
PTE. HERBERT HAYS
PTE. THOMAS HAYS
PTE. ALLISTER McGREGOR
WORLD WAR II
LAC. HOWARD GREEN
P.O. STANLEY KEITH KAISER
LAC. GRANT McCAY
SGT. JOHN LEWIS SPARLING
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM
[bench/banc]
In Flanders fields
the poppies blow
Between the crosses
row on row
LEST WE FORGET
[back/arrière]
THE FREEDOMS, ADVANTAGES AND STANDARDS OF
THE PRESENT, WERE PAID FOR BY THE INDUSTRY,
HARDSHIPS AND SACRIFICES OF THE PEOPLE OF
THE PAST.
WE DEDICATE THIS MEMORIAL TO THE WILLING
AND GALLANT PERSONNEL OF THE ARMED SERVICES
WHO SERVED THE CROWN AND CANADA.
DELAWARE TOWNSHIP AND AREA PERSONS
PARTICIPATED IN:
THE WAR OF 1812 1812-1815
THE BOER WAR 1899-1902
WORLD WAR I 1914-1918
WORLD WAR II 1939-1945
KOREAN WAR 1950-1952
ERECTED BY BRANCH 598, THE ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION
AND THE DELAWARE LIONS CLUB.
Street view
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