Cross of Sacrifice
Municipality/Province: Montréal, QC
Memorial number: 24045-003
Type: Cross
Address: 1297 Forêt Road
Location: At the entrance of the Mount Royal Cemetery
GPS coordinates: Lat: 45.5069473 Long: -73.6021169
Submitted by: Jacinthe Choinière
The Cross of Sacrifice was unveiled on 29 October 1922. A Cross of Sacrifice stands on a field of common ground between the Roman Catholic and Protestant cemeteries on Mount Royal. It was built by the Imperial War Graves Commission and was dedicated by the minister of militia and defence, George Graham, on October 29, 1922. The stark marble cross, 19 feet high, was blessed by an Anglican and a Roman Catholic bishop of Montreal in the presence of Mayor Méderic Martin. The cross is inscribed on both sides with the words, "Their memory will live from generation to generation."
Inscription found on memorial
[west side/côté ouest]
A LA MÉMOIRE DES SOLDATS MORTS POUR LE PATRIE DANS LA GRANDE GUERRE 1914-1919.
LEUR NOM IRA DE GÉNÉRATION EN GÉNÉRATION.
[east side/côté est]
TO THE MEMORY OF THOSE WHO DIED FOR KING AND COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1919.
THEIR NAMES LIVETH FOR EVERMORE.
MORTS POUR LA PATRIE LES HOMMES CI HONORES SONT INHUMES DANS CE CIMETIERE
THOSE HONOURED HERE DIED IN THE SERVICE OF THEIR COUNTRY
AND LIE ELSEWHERE IN THIS CEMETERY
1914-1921
PRIVATE L. BEHAN
CANADIAN INFANTRY 3.3.1920
CADET F.J. DWYER
ROYAL FLYING CORPS 29.3.1918
PRIVATE A. EMARD
CANADIAN ARMY MEDICAL CORPS 17.1.1921
PRIVATE E. FOURNIER
CANADIAN INFANTRY 14.10.1918
PRIVATE D. FUGERE
CANADIAN INFANTRY 13.11.1914
PRIVATE J. GOSSELIN
CANADIAN INFANTRY 15.6.1916
PRIVATE J. HANLY
CANADIAN INFANTRY 20.10.1916
LIEUTENANT C. F. HEWITT
CANADIAN ARMY DENTAL CORPS 16.3.1917
CORPORAL R.J. McELHERON
CANADIAN GARRISON REGIMENT 16.6.1919
PRIVATE G.H. McNULTY
CANADIAN INFANTRY 8.11.1916
PRIVATE P. SMITH
CANADIAN INFANTRY 12.3.1918
1939-1947
PRIVATE R. AUBE
ROYAL CANADIAN INFANTRY CORPS 8.7.1941
PRIVATE P. DUPUIS
ROYAL CANADIAN INFANTRY CORPS 24.12.1941
SAPPER J.A. GRIMARD
ROYAL CANADIAN ENGINEERS 2.6.1944
LIEUTENANT J. GUERTIN
ROYAL CANADIAN INFANTRY CORPS 24.10.1943
PRIVATE E.A. LEBOEUF
ROYAL CANADIAN INFANTRY CORPS 25.8.1944
STOKER FIRST CLASS J.R. LITALIEN
ROYAL CANADIAN VOLUNTEER RESERVE 1.4.1944
SERGEANT J.J.K. O'BRIEN
ROYAL CANADIAN AIRFORCE 27.7.1944
CORPORAL R. OLIVER
ROYAL CANADIAN ENGINEERS 27.12.1942
GUNNER J. POITRAS
ROYAL CANADIAN ARTILLERY 21.8.1944
PRIVATE L. ROBERTSON
ROYAL CANADIAN INFANTRY CORPS 15.4.1947
LEUR NOM VIT DE GENERATION EN GENERATION
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