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Grantham Township War Memorial

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Municipality/Province: St. Catharines, ON

Memorial number: 35080-039

Type: Pillar

Address: 480 Queenston Street

Location: Victoria Lawn Cemetery

GPS coordinates: Lat: 43.1612288   Long: -79.2034767

Submitted by: C.R. Baker LCol (Ret'd)

Photo credit: City of St. Catharines

This memorial was dedicated to the citizens of the Township of Grantham who were killed in the First World War and was erected by the Township of Grantham. A plaque for the Second World War was unveiled on June 7, 1954. Plaques were later added for the Korean War and Afghanistan.


Inscription found on memorial

[front/devant]
1850
TOWNSHIP OF GRANTHAM

THEIR NAME
LIVETH FOR
EVERMORE

HONOUR ROLL
MAJOR ALFRED JAMES ANSLEY
LIEUT. SAMUEL LEWIS HONEY, V.C., D.C.M., M.M.
CAPT. GARNET M. SMYTH
SERGT. JAMES A. TAMBLINGSON
LANCE-CORP. JOHN KEAN
GUNNER PERCY PLATO
GUNNER WILLIAM PERCY RICHINGS
PRIVATE CHARLES ROBERT EBERHARDT
PRIVATE ROY BURTON SECORD
PRIVATE CHARLES A. BODY
PRIVATE HILLIARD P. BAKER
PRIVATE WILLIAM BEAN
PRIVATE THEODORE R. THOMPSON
PRIVATE THOMAS A. KIRTLAND
PRIVATE BERTRAM KIRTLAND
PRIVATE EZRA SARLES
PRIVATE HAROLD CHURCH
PRIVATE STEWARD CULL
PRIVATE HENRY BRAY
PRIVATE EDGAR ELKINS
PRIVATE EDWARD ROSSITER
PRIVATE JAMES THOMAS O’CONNELL
PRIVATE WILLIAM DEY
GUNNER ARTHUR JOSEPH HOGAN
PRIVATE WILLIAM MITCHELL

1914
1918
CANADA

IN HONOURED MEMORY OF
THE MEN OF THE TOWNSHIP OF
GRANTHAM
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
IN THE GREAT WAR, 1914-1918.

1914
1918
CANADA

[right side/côté droit]

1914
1919

YPRES
ST JULIEN

HONOUR ROLL
♦♦♦ 1939 - 1945 ♦♦♦

AIKEN, DAVID P.O.
ASH, GEORGE FLT. LT. - F.G.C.
BIRD, ERNEST PTE.
CLINTON, EDGAR S. P.F.C
DOREY, JOHN A. PTE.
ESSERY, FRED PTE.
FAST, JOHN PTE.
FISK, GEORGE C. SGT.
HALL, JOSEPH M. PTE.
HAWKE, CHARLES W. GNR.
HIPWELL, HERBERT E. PTE.
HOLMES, LEONARD FLT. LT.
IRVINE, JAMES F. FLT. SGT.
JEWER, JAMES W. GNR.
JOHNSTON, CLARENCE A. FLT./SGT.
JORDON, ALBERT C. PTE.
KOLOYIAN, SOLOMAN PTE.
LEACH, EDGARD PTE.
MALE, CHARLES C. CPL.
MARTIN, BRUCE L. TPR.
MATTHEWS, DONALD W. SGT. AIR GNR.
NEWHOUSE, HARRY PTE.
NEWHOUSE, ROBERT V. PTE.
OLSEN, GORDON L. SGT. PILOT
RILEY, IRVING PTE.
ROMANCHUK, JOSEPH R. CPL.
SLESSOR, WILLIAM PTE.
SMITH, ELWOOD O. F.O.
TAYLOR, NORMAN W.O.

[back/arrière]

FOR KING
AND
COUNTRY

[left side/côté gauche]

1914
1919

VIMY RIDGE
PASSCHENDAELE
AMIENS
ARRAS
DROCOURT
DURY
BOURLON WOOD

KOREA
1950 - 1953

AFGHANISTAN
2001 - 2011

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