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Paris Presbyterian Church has two Rolls of Honour for their members who served in the Second World War.

This plaque was purchased by the parents in memory of their son Private Jairus Alexander Maus who died in the First World War. His parents presented the plaque to Paris Plains Church.

On April 21, 1924, a brass tablet at Grace Anglican Church was dedicated to the members of the congregation who died in the First World War.

There were 5,571, including 37 nurses, from the community of Brantford and Brant County who donned the uniform in the First World War. Of these, 608 gave their lives, 58 were reported missing, hundreds were wounded and 143 won decorations or were mentioned in dispatches.

The scale of the suffering and sacrifice was so large, the selflessness with which average men and women responded to the call was so inspiring, that people made a conscious decision early in the First World War that those who served must be remembered. The first commemoration on a grand scale was proposed in November 1917. The Brantford Expositor announced that the contract was let for the new monument to be erected in the Odd Fellows’ Plot at Mount Hope Cemetery and gave extensive coverage to the unveiling ceremony the following year on September 9, 1917.

Approximately 700 citizens gathered for the ceremony where Reverend Walter Cox, Grand Master of the Odd Fellows of Ontario, unveiled the memorial to the memory of the Odd Fellows of Brantford who made the extreme sacrifice in the Great War. The Union Jack was lifted from the memorial which stood 14 feet high and measured six feet wide at the base. Following the unveiling, four little girls fastened a huge wreath to a royal purple ribbon surrounding the memorial while the speaker paused amid a reverent silence.

Little is known about the memorial erected in New Durham Cemetery, other than that it was erected in September 1919 with the names of six locals who lost their lives in the First World War. Sometime after it was erected the names of Privates F. Jauncey and John Connelly were added to the memorial.

The cairn was erected by the Royal Canadian Legion Telephone City 90

This roll of honor lists the war dead of the Municipality of Paris 1914-1918

The organ chimes at the Colborne Street Methodist Church were dedicated in memory of the men who made the supreme sacrifice in the Great War 1914-1918

In memory of the men from the Alexandra Presbyterian Church who made the supreme sacrifice in the Great War 1914-1918

The plaque was dedicated in 1925 in loving and grateful memory of the students of Brantford Collegiate Institute who gave their lives in the great war 1914-1918. They gave their to-morrow for our to-day