Ontario

Province Code
ON
City/Municipality
Mallorytown
Memorial Number
35041-090
Type
Other
Address
Thousand Islands Parkway
Location
LaRue Mills Cemetery
in Canada
Yes
GPS Coordinates
44.4316964, -75.88536
Inscription

IN MEMORY OF THE MEN FROM
FRONT OF ESCOTT TOWNSHIP
WHO LOST THEIR LIVES IN
WORLD WAR I AND II

  • FREDERICK F. COOK
  • RICHARD L. GIHON
  • MORTON HODGE
  • FRANK BENNETT
  • FREDERICK SALTER
  • GEORGE W. MALLORY
  • MORRIS H. LAMBERT
  • CHARLES A. MASSEY Jr.
  • WILLIAM L. SIMPSON
  • JACK D. BUELL
  • HUGH C. LYNCH
  • DOUGLAS MOULTON
  • IRVINE I. DONOVAN
  • RANDY M. RUNNING
  • WILLIAM G. McKEE
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Louise Bellec
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World Wars Bench
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Louise Bellec
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inscription
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War or Conflict Term
First World War
Second World War
Province
Ontario
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Located on the left at the entrance of LaRue Mills cemetery, this bench honours 12 men from the Front of Escott Township who lost their lives in the First and Second World Wars.

City
Mallorytown
Country
Canada
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Type Description
Bench
Memorial CF Legacy ID
12075
City/Municipality
Athens
Memorial Number
35041-089
Type
Other
Address
35 Main Street East
Location
Main Street Park
in Canada
Yes
GPS Coordinates
44.6268139, -75.9500804
Inscription

[plaque]
VIMY OAKS LEGACY TREE
2017

This oak tree is a descendant from the few acorns gathered after the Battle of Vimy Ridge by Canadian soldier Lt. Leslie Miller. Not a single oak tree remained standing in the aftermath of the shelling. This tree, a descendant of one of those acorns, is one of the trees planted across Canada to mark the 100th anniversary of this historic Canadian victory. It stands as a living memorial to all Canadian soldiers who fought in the First World War including the eleven Athens soldiers killed and memorialized on the nearby stone Cairn.

After a sendoff at the Athens train station the soldiers departed for Halifax then sailed to Europe. They found the battlefields of France scarred with huge bomb craters and strewn with the dead and dying. The weather was atrocious and in the trenches the soldiers stood in cold mud and water, in constant fear of mustard or chlorine gas attacks. The smell of death hung in the air. After 4 days the innovative strategy and ferocity of the four Canadian divisions prevailed, marking a pivotal moment in Canada's coming of age as a nation.

Photo caption: On their way to war, dust rises as part of the 156th Battalion marches proudly through Athens, c1916

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Vimy Oak Legacy Tree
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Vimy Oak Legacy Tree and plaque
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War or Conflict Term
First World War
Province
Ontario
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After the Battle of Vimy Ridge was won on April 12, 1917, Lieutenant Leslie Miller, a soldier from Ontario, gathered up a handful of acorns as a souvenir to the momentous victory. On returning to Canada, he transplanted the acorns on his land, calling his property the Vimy Oaks Farm. Today several of the oak trees he planted are still standing.

The Vimy Oaks Legacy Corporation repatriated Canadian Vimy Oaks back to Vimy Ridge and saplings were planted as part of the centennial commemorations in 2017 and 2018. Vimy Oaks saplings were offered for sale across the country as a memorial to the soldiers of the First World War.

City
Athens
Country
Canada
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Tree
Photo Credit
Tim Laye, Ontario War Memorials
Memorial CF Legacy ID
12056
City/Municipality
Athens
Memorial Number
35041-088
Type
Other
Address
1 Main Street
Location
Township of Athens Municipal Office
in Canada
Yes
GPS Coordinates
44.6257085, -75.9528427
Inscription

[stone/pierre]
THIS GARDEN WAS PLANTED IN MEMORY OF

GERALD BOTSFORD
WILLIAM CARL
BASIL CONNERTY
JOHN CORR
EVERETT CROSS
ROSS DE WOLFE
J MILLS JOHNSTON
GORDON KELSEY
LLOYD SCOTT
DELOS SPENCE
FRANK WHITFORD

WHO PAID THE SUPREME SACRIFICE IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918
IT REPLACES THE ELEVEN MAPLE TREES
ORIGINALLY PLANTED HERE IN THEIR HONOUR

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War or Conflict Term
First World War
Province
Ontario
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First World War Garden was dedicated to those from the area that gave their lives in the First World War. The garden replaces the 11 maple trees that were originally planted here in their honour.

City
Athens
Country
Canada
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Garden
Photo Credit
Tim Laye, Ontario War Memorials
Memorial CF Legacy ID
12055
City/Municipality
Mallorytown
Memorial Number
35041-087
Type
Other
Address
13 Quabbin Road
Location
Waldron Park
in Canada
Yes
GPS Coordinates
44.4788037, -75.8804353
Inscription

IN HONOR OF
COMRADE GEORGE MACDONALD
WWII NAVY VETERAN
READY THE BRAVE

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Comrade George MacDonald Memorial
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Ontario
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Comrade George MacDonald Memorial

City
Mallorytown
Country
Canada
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Stone, plaque
Memorial CF Legacy ID
12052
City/Municipality
Mallorytown
Memorial Number
35041-086
Type
Other
Address
13 Quabbin Road
Location
Royal Canadian Legion Branch 484
in Canada
Yes
GPS Coordinates
44.4789845, -75.880616
Inscription

DEDICATED TO THE MEMORY
OF THOSE CANADIANS
WHO SERVED AND DIED

  • WORLD WAR I
  • FRANK BENNETT
  • FRED COOK
  • MORTON HODGE
  • 1914 - 1918
  • GEORGE W. MALLORY
  • R.L. McGIBON
  • FRED SALTER
  • WORLD WAR II
  • JACK BUELL
  • IRVINE DONEVAN
  • DON GARDINER
  • GEORGE HOWARD
  • MORRIS LAMBERT
  • HUGH LYNCH
  • 1939 - 1945
  • CHARLES MASSEY JR.
  • DOUGLAS MOULTON
  • WILLIAM McKEE
  • DONALD RUNNING
  • L.N. SIMPSON
  • JACK TENNANT

KOREAN WAR   1950 — 1954

LEST WE FORGET

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Mallorytown Cenotaph
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War or Conflict Term
First World War
Korean War
Second World War
Province
Ontario
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Mallorytown Cenotaph

City
Mallorytown
Country
Canada
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Slab
Memorial CF Legacy ID
12051
City/Municipality
Gananoque
Memorial Number
35041-085
Type
Parks
Address
King Street West and Main Street
in Canada
Yes
GPS Coordinates
44.326502, -76.1646301
Submitted By
Douglas James Nelson Wood CD
Inscription

[sign/enseigne]

Support Our Troops

DEDICATED TO ALL VETERANS
PAST, PRESENT, AND FUTURE

LEGION RIDERS
MEMORIAL PARK

PROUDLY SUPPORTED BY DOUGLAS WOOD CD.
THE LEGION RIDERS OF SOUTH EASTERN ONTARIO
THE LITTLE PARK WITH A BIG HEART

 

Authentic
Corn Poppies
from
Flanders Fields

In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place; and in the sky
The larks, still bravely singing, fly
Scarce heard amid 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.

Take up our quarrel with the foe:
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch; be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields.

[stone/pierre]

LEST
WE
FORGET

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Legion Riders Memorial Park sign
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Ontario
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In 1998, this property was left to the town of Gananoque by Duffy Macully as long as the Gananoque Legion Branch 92 used it for a park. Douglas Wood, 2nd Vice at Branch 92, took on the project even spending his own money to make the park as nice as he could. Douglas was a member of Legion Riders, which consist of United Nations Veterans, and they asked the town if they could be responsible for the park.

In 2011, the park was renamed to Legion Riders Memorial Park and dedicated to all who served - past, present and future. The park has flower beds, benches, a bed of corn poppies from Flanders Fields, a mighty oak seedling from Vimy Ridge and the Canadian Peacekeepers Monument.

City
Gananoque
Country
Canada
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Park
Memorial CF Legacy ID
11921
City/Municipality
Brockville
Memorial Number
35041-084
Type
Other
in Canada
Yes
GPS Coordinates
0, 0
Submitted By
Bell Canada
Inscription

DEDICATED BY THE EMPLOYEES OF
THE BELL TELEPHONE COMPANY OF CANADA>
IN MEMORY OF
ROBERT J. ATTRIDGE
WILLIAM A. CAMPBELL
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
IN THE SECOND WORLD WAR
1939 — 1945

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Attridge and Campbell Plaque
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Ontario
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This plaque was dedicated by Brockville employees of the Bell Telephone Company of Canada in honour of their two comrades who gave their lives in the Second World War. It is not known where the plaque is located now.

City
Brockville
Country
Canada
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Bell Canada
Memorial CF Legacy ID
11914
City/Municipality
Westport
Memorial Number
35041-083
Type
Other
Address
23 George Street
Location
Lockwood Park
in Canada
Yes
GPS Coordinates
44.6773291, -76.3981894
Submitted By
Derek Pullen. The Rideau District Museum.
Inscription

1914 1919

ERECTED BY
THE WOMEN'S INSTITUTE OF WESTPORT
IN PROUD AND HONOURED MEMORY
OF THE FOLLOWING MEMBERS OF THIS
COMMUNITY WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR

"They Counted Not Their Lives Dear Unto
Themselves"

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Federated Women's Institutes of Ontario
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inscription
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Memorial Gates
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War or Conflict Term
First World War
Province
Ontario
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The Memorial Gates, made of limestone pillars and iron, honour the 11 Westport men who gave their lives in the First World War. The gates were erected in 1919/20 by the Women's Institute. 

A First World War plaque is located on the gates. It was donated by the Women's Institute in 1919 for the cenotaph. In 2020, the Village of Westport was contacted by the National Wall of Remembrance Association who fully restored the plaque on the gates. It was unveiled on November 11, 2021, by the local MP, MPP and Paul Herlehy, the great nephew of Private David A Herlehy, who died in the First World War. The plaque was then rededicated by Chaplain Reverend Thomas Dorward. 

John Cherry Boyd, listed on the gates, had a very rough start in life, being placed into care at an orphanage in Scotland in 1897 at the approximate age of four. His father, Sam Boyd, was listed as "whereabouts unknown," and his mother, Isabella Cherry, was convicted of neglecting John. The Sheriff felt the only way to help John was to place him in the orphanage and Isabella signed over her rights to him. John remained in the care of the Quarrier's Home at Bridge of Weir in Scotland until 1905 when he was sent to Canada as a child migrant, more than 100,000 orphaned and destitute children were distributed as Home Children over the course of 63 years.

City
Westport
Country
Canada
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Gates, plaque
Memorial CF Legacy ID
10507
City/Municipality
Gananoque
Memorial Number
35041-082
Type
Other
Address
375 James Street
Location
Carveth Care Centre
in Canada
Yes
GPS Coordinates
44.3356404, -76.1599174
Submitted By
Victoria Edwards; Gibson Family Healthcare
Inscription

[monument]
In Flanders fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses, row on row,
That mark our place: and in the sky
The larks still bravely singing fly
Scarce heard amid 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!

Take up our quarrel with the foe
To you, from failing hands, we throw
The torch: be yours to hold it high
If ye break faith with us who die,
We shall not sleep, though poppies grow
In Flanders fields

[footstones]

  • LEST WE FORGET
  • HAROLD RUSHTON
  • 1926 - 2012
  •  
  • LEST WE FORGET
  • JACK INGLIS
  • 1922 - 2012
  •  
  • LEST WE FORGET
  • WILLIAM SAUNDERS
  • 1916 - 2012
  •  
  • LEST WE FORGET
  • DORENE TRUESDELL
  • 1924 - 2012
  •  
  • LEST WE FORGET
  • EVERETT SUMMERS
  • 1920 - 2013
  •  
  • LEST WE FORGET
  • MARSHALL HEATHERINGTON
  • 1925 - 2013
  •  
  • LEST WE FORGET
  • DONALD WALKER
  • 1931 - 2013
  •  
  • LEST WE FORGET
  • MARGARET LEWIS
  • 1923 - 2014
  •  
  • LEST WE FORGET
  • WILLIAM NUTTALL
  • 1917 - 2014
  •  
  • LEST WE FORGET
  • DENNIS WEIR
  • 1935 - 2014
  •  
  • LEST WE FORGET
  • IVAN AUCOIN
  • 1933 - 2014
  •  
  • LEST WE FORGET
  • GERALD FERGUSON
  • 1923 - 2014
  •  
  • LEST WE FORGET
  • KEN GORDON
  • 1924 - 2014
  •  
  • LEST WE FORGET
  • JACK HARDING
  • 1916 - 2015
  •  
  • LEST WE FORGET
  • EARL WOODLEY
  • 1925 - 2015
  •  
  • LEST WE FORGET
  • ALLAN MAXAM
  • 1931 - 2015
  •  
  • LEST WE FORGET
  • ERWIN HARTEL
  • 1927 - 2015
  •  
  • LEST WE FORGET
  • RAY BRENNAN
  • 1918 - 2015
  •  
  • LEST WE FORGET
  • WAYNE KELLY
  • 1926 - 2015
  •  
  • LEST WE FORGET
  • EDMOUR LEGER
  • 1926 - 2015
  •  
  • LEST WE FORGET
  • JOSEF BLANKENBORG
  • 1926 - 2016
  •  
  • LEST WE FORGET
  • JEAN SPEAR
  • 1920 - 2016
  •  
  • LEST WE FORGET
  • MICHEAL KYNE
  • 1931 - 2016
  •  
  • LEST WE FORGET
  • PAUL ZAVEDA
  • 1919 - 2016
  •  
  • LEST WE FORGET
  • ERNEST FERGUSON
  • 1926 - 2016
  •  
  • LEST WE FORGET
  • RICHARD SENECAL
  • 1923 - 2016
  •  
  • LEST WE FORGET
  • JACK DOWNEY
  • 1925 - 2017
  •  
  • LEST WE FORGET
  • CLIFFORD DUNHAM
  • 1926 - 2017
  •  
  • LEST WE FORGET
  • GLENN CHANT
  • 1919 - 2017
  •  
  • LEST WE FORGET
  • CHARLES BRISTOL
  • 1927 - 2017
  •  
  • LEST WE FORGET
  • GEORGE MACDONALD
  • 1922 - 2017
  •  
  • LEST WE FORGET
  • PETE GOODBODY
  • 1924 - 2017
  •  
  • LEST WE FORGET
  • JEFF WILLIS
  • 1962 - 2018
  •  
  • LEST WE FORGET
  • MEL NORRIS
  • 1927 - 2018
  •  
  • LEST WE FORGET
  • FRANK NORRIS
  • 1929 - 2019
  •  
  • LEST WE FORGET
  • ARTHUR NORRIS
  • 1923 - 2019
  •  
  • LEST WE FORGET
  • GERALD WALKER
  • 1926 - 2019
  •  
  • LEST WE FORGET
  • JOHANNES VAN DER HOEVEN
  • 1932 - 2019
  •  
  • LEST WE FORGET
  • WILLIAM BUTTREY
  • 1922 - 2020
  •  
  • LEST WE FORGET
  • GWEN HARRISON
  • 1924 - 2020
  •  
  • LEST WE FORGET
  • MARION MACKINNON
  • 1920 - 2020
  •  
  • LEST WE FORGET
  • NEVILLE NALON
  • 1902 - 1987
  •  
  • LEST WE FORGET
  • GODFREY NALON
  • 1923 - 2007
  •  
  • LEST WE FORGET
  • THOMAS CAMPBELL
  • 1920 - 2011
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garden
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Ontario
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Veterans’ Memorial Garden began in 2012 with the laying of the first foot stones. The garden includes 45 footstones with the names of men and women who served their country. Carveth Charitable Foundation and Legion Branch 92 purchased all the footstones from Leeder Monuments.

There were three stones placed in the garden of Veterans that lived at Carveth before the Veterans’ garden was built. Their families purchased these stones as they wished to have them placed here. Those names are: Neville Nalon, Godfrey Nalon and Thomas Campbell.

In 2017, the Veterans’ Memorial Garden at Carveth Care Centre expanded with the addition of a monument.  The garden is built into the courtyard of the nursing home. The three foot high memorial stone was constructed by Leeder Monuments. The monument was erected in the garden and dedicated to Canadian Veterans who lived at Carveth Care Centre.

City
Gananoque
Country
Canada
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Garden
Memorial CF Legacy ID
10450
City/Municipality
Augusta Township
Memorial Number
35041-081
Type
Other
Address
3567 County Road 26
Location
Maynard Cemetery
in Canada
Yes
GPS Coordinates
44.7258721, -75.5739305
Submitted By
Louise Bellec
Inscription

[left side/côté gauche]

IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF
OUR HEROES OF THE WAR
1939 - 1945

L.CPL. CARL N. THROOP  JULY 30, 1944
P.O. IRWIN E.S. ROBINSON NOV. 28, 1942
SGT J.BOWMAN SPERO  SEPT. 14, 1941
L.CPL. ELMER G. SWAN  JUNE 6, 1944
PTE. KENNETH L. BAKER  AUG. 30, 1944
PTE. CLARENCE N. VICKERY  OCT. 16, 1944
SGT. ROBERT J. M. ATTRIDGE  DEC. 2, 1942 

THEY DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE.


IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF
OUR HEROES OF THE WAR
1914-1918

PTE. ROY H. SPICER   MAY 12, 1916
SERGT. HERBERT W. HALL  JUNE 6, 1916
PTE. KENNETH WHITE  OCT.1 1916
PTE. JAMES F. HAMILL  NOV. 18 1916
SERGT. WILLIAM E. LANE  MAR. 1, 1917
PTE. WILFRED L. WHITE APR. 9, 1917
LIEUT. CECIL J. BOVAIRD  MAY 3, 1917
PTE. EDWARD PATTERSON  AUG. 2, 1917
PTE. HARVEY G. EWARD  AUG. 17, 1917
PTE. ELMER U. BISHOP  AUG. 18, 1917
PTE. WILLIAM SCOTT  AUG. 27, 1917

[right side/côté droit]

IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF
OUR HEROES OF THE WAR
1939 - 1945

GNR LAWRENCE WILLIAMS  MAY 15, 1944
PTE. JAMES S. HALL MAR. 16, 1944
PTE. CLIFFORD G. YOUNG  APR. 26, 1945
TPR.  DONALD W. COVILLE  APR. 13, 1945
PTE. GORDON S. FOX  DEC. 26, 1943
PTE. WILLIAM R. VANDUSEN  OCT. 14, 1944
PTE. SYDNEY SHOBBROOK  JULY 25, 1944

THEY DIED THAT WE MIGHT LIVE.


PTE. JOSEPH N. BISHOP  NOV.5, 1917
PTE. JOHN HYNDE  NOV.6, 1917
CADET BURT. E. HULBERT  MAR. 7, 1918
LANCE-CORP. GORDON H. SCOTT  AUG. 17, 1918
PTE. THOMAS R. KINGSTON  SEP. 2, 1918
PTE. GEORGE PATTERSON  SEP. 2, 1918
SERGT. ROY LINDSAY  JAN 6, 1919
PTE. STANLEY WARD  APR. 18, 1919
LANCE -CORP. MASON F. SCOTT  SEP. 23, 1919
PTE. JOHN B. WHITE  JULY 27, 1917

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right side
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Maynard Cenotaph
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First World War
Second World War
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Ontario
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The Maynard Cenotaph was unveiled and dedicated on September 6, 1920, in memory of the men from the district who laid down their lives in the Great War. In 1948, two plaques were added in memory of their heroes of the Second World War.

City
Augusta Township
Country
Canada
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Louise Bellec
Memorial CF Legacy ID
10178
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