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Gooderham Cenotaph

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Municipality/Province: Gooderham, ON

Memorial number: 35093-021

Type: Shaft - granite, stone and concrete

Address: Mill and Gooderham Streets

GPS coordinates: Lat: 44.9066287   Long: -78.3797405

Submitted by: Glen Madill

Photo credit: Tim Laye, Ontario War Memorials

The Gooderham Cenotaph was erected in 1921 and dedicated to the local war dead of the First World War. The memorial includes a First World War-era machine gun placed in front of the headstone.


Inscription found on memorial

IN HONOUR OF OUR FALLEN HEROES
IN WAR 1914 — 1918

SERGT. GEORGE LEVERINGTON
KILLED IN ACTION SEPT. 11 1917

LANCE CORP. GEORGE BOWERS
KILLED IN ACTION SEPT. 20 1918

726076 PTE. GEORGE HUNTER
KILLED IN ACTION AUG. 6 1918

724293 PTE. ROBERT GROVES
DIED OF WOUNDS DEC. 25 1917

1921

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