Dresden Cemetery War Memorial
Municipality/Province: Dresden, ON
Memorial number: 35039-037
Type: Stele (granite)
Address: 296 Trerice Street East
Location: Dresden Cemetery
GPS coordinates: Lat: 42.5961555 Long: -82.1709588
Submitted by: Rhonda Deacon, Executive Member/membre de l'exécutif
This memorial is dedicated to those who fought in the First World War, the Second World War and Korean War. It was erected by the citizens and organizations of Dresden. This granite monument is surrounded by a horseshoe ridge with red and white rose bushes planted in 2000. There is a walkway to the monument. On either side of the walkway are all the crosses with the soldiers names from Dresden and the surrounding area who gave their lives.
Inscription found on memorial
[front top/devant, en haut]
FREEDOM
JUSTICE
WORLD WAR I
1914-1918
WAR II
1939-1945
KOREAN WAR
1950-1953
BY LITTLE TOWNS
IN FAR OFF LANDS
WE SLEEP,
AND TRUST TO YOU
THE THINGS
WE HAVE WON TO KEEP.
WE GAVE OUR TO-MORROW
FOR YOUR TO-DAY
1972
[front bottom/devant, en bas]
THROUGH GENEROUS TOKENS OF REMEMBRANCE
BY CITIZENS AND ORGANIZATIONS OF DRESDEN
AND AREA, THIS MEMORIAL FIELD WAS ERECTED
AND DEDICATED IN GRATEFUL MEMORY AND DEEP
APPRECIATION OF THEIR SACRIFICE.
Street view
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