Memorial Gates
Municipality/Province: Saskatoon, SK
Memorial number: 47009-019
Type: Gates - stone
Address: College and Hospital Drives
Location: University of Saskatchewan
GPS coordinates: Lat: 52.1289988 Long: -106.6432194
Submitted by: Bill Salt
Sixty-seven University of Saskatchewan students and faculty lost their lives while on service during the First World War. The impact of the war on the University was immense: 330 students and faculty served during the War, a number equivalent to nearly all of the students who had registered the year prior to the beginning of the conflict.
The desire to honor the staff and students who had fallen during the Great War was strong within the University community. As early as August 1918, three months prior to the formal Armistice, University President Walter C. Murray began making enquiries into the cost of a suitable memorial. In 1926, a Memorial Committee was appointed and they decided upon gates made of solid bronze, imported from England; the remainder, made of local Greystone. Architect David R. Brown estimated the cost of what would come to be known as the Memorial Gates to be $30,000, with an additional $10,000 required for the memorial. A concerted fundraising effort among students and alumni helped cover the costs.
The Memorial Gates were unveiled by University President Walter C. Murray and dedicated by the Bishop George Exton Lloyd of Saskatchewan on 3 May 1928. Walter Murray also unveiled the tablet on which commemorates those who died in the First World War.
Inscription found on memorial
[front/devant]
(left side/côté gauche)
The University of
Saskatchewan
(right side/côté droit)
Memorial Gates
erected 1927 a.d.
[left pillar/colonne gauche]
BOGRLON
DURY
AMIENS
CDAMBRAI
[wall/mur]
THESE ARE THEY WHO WENT
FORTH FROM THIS UNIVERSITY
[First Column/première colonne]
Hugh Carter Allingham
Renwick William Anderson
Reginald John Bateman
Charles Mr Vicar Bayne
William Dobie Braten
Harold John Blair MC
Charles Bremner
James Bryden
Frederick Burd
Thomas Caldwell
Gordon Mortimer Channell
[Second Column/deuxième colonne]
William Mansell Codling
John Stewart Cowan
James Douglas Cumming
William Henry Davis MC
John Kenneth Dawson
Reginald James Dillon
William Drysdale
Henry Egar
Lorne Burton Elliott
Wildred John Evans
John Fisher
[Second Section/deuxième section]
TO THE GREAT
WAR OF 1914 - 1918
[First Column/première colonne]
Ernest R. Gilmer
James Donald Grahamn MM
Robert Carlton Grant
Arthur Gordon Grurhy
Cyril N. Harrington
James Gordon Hill
Lawrence Homer
Grenville Carson Hopkins
Willis George Hunt
William Yeates Hunter
Franklin Magrr Keffer
[Second Column/deuxième colonne]
Perry Dennington Kisby
Reginald A. Lovers MM
Skuli Gudbrandur Lindal
Arthur Stephen K. Lloyd
Clifford McConnell
Robert Peuerol McCordick
Louis James McCuen
Michael Allan McMillan
J. Ross McPherson D.S.O.
Avard Yuill Mathews
Enoch Andrew Mitchell
[Centered/centrée]
James Shirley Heathcote
[Third Section/troisième section]
THEY GAVE THEIR LIVES THAT
WE MIGHT LIVE IN FREEDOM
[First Column/première colonne]
John James Moore
Fred Nesbitt
Josep Lees Nicholls
Angus Nicholson
George Irving Paterson
Arthur Edward Porlett
Elwyn Robert Reid
Thomas Ritchie
Robert Rousay
Roy E. Shuttleworth MM
Hugh A Silrox
[Second Column/deuxième colonne]
Ronald Charles Spence
Arthur George Storkings
George Swift
Robert Sifton Turriff
Wellesly Wesley-Irong
Edward West
Frank West
Wolfer Roy Whittingham
Paul P. Wiklund
Geoffrey Wilson
Wilfrid Grant Wilson
[right pillar/colonne droite]
YPRES
SOMME
VIMY
PASSCHEN
DALE
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