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This bronze plaque commemortaes the laying of the cornerstone and the construction of the Cornwall Armoury. 

The Cornwall Armoury was built between 1938 and 1939, and is associated with the expanding requirements of Canada’s militia between the First and Second World Wars. During the Second World War, it was the centre piece of an adjacent 35 acre basic training camp that trained an estimated 15,000 soldiers over a four year period (see photo 3).

Today, the Cornwall Armoury houses various units including the Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders, the SD&G Cadet Corps, the Stormont Royal Canadian Sea Cadet Corps and Cornwall Cadet Squadron.  It is also used to host many community events.

This scroll was unveiled in memory of the soldiers of the 154th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force who died in the First World War. 

The 154th Battalion was raised in the counties of Stormant, Dundas and Glengarry, near Cornwall Ontario. It embarked for England on 16 October 1916, arriving in the UK later that month. It was disbanded a few months later after its members were tranferred to other battalions as reinforcements. Despite being disbanded, surviving members of the original 154th Battalion produced this scroll to honour original members of the 154th who had died in the First World War.

This bronze plaque was unveiled in memory of Captain Clarence Dickinson Hamilton, Canadian Army Medical Corps. 

Clarence Dickinson Hamilton was born in Cornwall, Ontario on 18 December 1883. He was educated at Cornwall Public School as well as Cornwall High School. He continued his studies at the University of Toronto and McGill University, graduating from McGill in 1911. He went on to practice medicine in Cornwall before joining the military at the outbreak of the First World War.

He embarked for England in the summer of 1915 as a member of the 141st Field Ambulance, RAMC. While overseas, he also served as Medical Officer for the 2nd Royal Sussex Regiment and the 1st Battalion, The Black Watch. Hamilton then transferred to the Canadian Army Medical Corps and returned to Canada. In September 1918, he once again embarked for overseas service, crossing on the troop transport ship HUNTSEND. While en route, he succumbed to influenza and on 9 October 1918, was buried at sea.

With no known grave, Captain Clarence Dickinson Hamilton is memorialized on the Halifax Memorial.

This bronze plaque was unveiled in memory of Pilot Officer Peter Donald Ross-Ross, RCAF.

Peter Donald Ross-Ross was born on 11 August 1924 and raised in Cornwall, Ontario. He underwent aircrew and navigator training in Canada as part of the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP) before going overseas. Once in England, he was assigned to 227 Squadron, RAF flying Lancaster bombers from RAF Balderton, south-east of Newark-on-Trent in Nottinghamshire.

On the night of 3-4 March 1945, P/O Ross-Ross took part in a bombing mission to attack the Dortmund-Ems Canal in the area of Ladbergen, Germany. His aircraft was hit and crashed, killing Ross-Ross a mere two months before the cessation of hostilities in Europe. Initially buried at Munster, P/O Peter Donald Ross-Ross was re-buried at the Reichswald Forest War Cemetery, near Kleve, Germany.

This scroll was unveiled in memory of the members of the Church of the Good Shepherd who died as well as those who served during the Second World War.

Historical note: The Church of the Good Shepherd, in Cornwall ON,  was erected in 1886 as Mountain Memorial. A new Mountain Memorial brick church was built in 1893 on a lot just north of the original lot at the corner of Malborough and First streets and renamed the Church of the Good Shepherd. The church closed after 118 years and its artefacts moved to Trinity Anglican Church.

This bronze plaque was unveiled in memory of the members of the congregation who died as well as those who served during the First World War.

This plaque was unveiled in honour of the 154th Battalion, Canadian Expeditionary Force, and in memory of the 146 members who died in the First World War. 

The 154th Battalion was raised in the counties of Stormant, Dundas and Glengarry, near Cornwall Ontario. It embarked for England on 16 October 1916, arriving in the UK later that month. It was disbanded a few months later after its members were tranferred to other battalions as reinforcements. The Stormant, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders perpetuate the 154th Battalion.

This plaque was unveiled in memory of Colonel Darby Bergin, MD, MP and first Commanding Officer of the Stormont and Glengarry Battalion of Infantry. 

Bergin was born in York (Toronto) and received his medical degree from McGill College in Montreal, following which, he practiced medicine in Cornwall. Bergin was elected Member of Parliament in 1872. 

Colonel Bergin’s military career began in 1850 as the Regimental Surgeon for the 3rd Battalion, Stormont Militia. In 1851, he was with the 4th Battalion, Stormont Militia. He served in the 1st Volunteer Militia Rifle Company of Cornwall as Regimental Surgeon from 1858 until 1862.

In 1862, he became the officer in charge of the Cornwall Infantry Company. During the Trent Affair (1862), he raised the 1st Rifle Company in Cornwall serving as commanding officer with the rank of Captain. This marked his change in role from surgeon to infantry commander. He was promoted major in 1866.

On 3 July 1868 with the creation of the 59th Stormont & Glengarry Battalion of Infantry, he became its first commanding officer. He was promoted lieutenant colonel in 1869 when the 59th was 439 strong with “a fair brass band of 12”. He held this appointment until 1885. The 59th Battalion is the precedent unit of today’s Stormont, Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders.

In 1885, he became Canada’s first Surgeon General, laying the groundwork for the creation of a permanent medical corps. 

After his death, Bergin was honoured with one of the largest public funerals ever held in Eastern Ontario.

These flags were presented to the Stormont Dundas and Glengarry Highlanders, by the citizens of Knokke, Belgium in memory of the “Glengarrians” who fought for the liberation of their city. 

The memorial consists of two framed flags affixed back-to-back and, produced especially for the occasion, a SDG Highlanders Battle Honours flag on which are inscribed the Battle Honours of the Battalion and a Belgium flag. 

The Stormont Dundas Glengarry Highlanders fought throughout the Scheldt and in October-November of 1944 took part in OPERATION SWITCHBACK. They were part of 9 Brigade, 3rd Infantry Divison that liberated Knokke, Belgium, as part of this operation.

This memorial is dedicated to the men and women who served Canada.