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Val-d'Or Cenotaph

Municipality/Province: Val-d'Or, QC

Memorial number: 24001-003

Type: Stone monument

Address: 121 Lamaque Boulevard

Location: Across the street from the Baptist Church of Évangile, near the intersection of Lamaque Boulevard and 3rd Avenue.

GPS coordinates: Lat: 48.1000439   Long: -77.7782519

Submitted by: Fournier, Rodolphe. Lieux et monuments historiques de l'Ouest du Québec et d'Ottawa. Montréal, Éditions Paulines, 1982.

This memorial is dedicated to those from the Val-d'Or area who died serving their country overseas in the Second World War and the Korean War. It was erected by the Royal Canadian Legion Branch 76 and the citizens of Bourlamaque, Val-d'Or and Malartic.


Inscription found on memorial

EN L’HONNEUR ET À LA
MÉMOIRE DE TOUS LES HOM-
MES DE LA RÉGION QUI FIRENT
LE SACRIFICE DE LEUR VIE
OUTRE-MER POUR LA DÉFENSE
DE LEUR PAYS.

TO THE HONOUR AND
MEMORY OF THE MEN FROM
THIS DISTRICT WHO MADE THE
SUPREME SACRIFICE WHILE
SERVING THEIR COUNTRY
OVERSEAS.

1939-1945
KOREA

P/O J.W. ASH R.C.A.F.
PTE. R.L. ASH C.I.C.
GNR. S.K. BIDGOOD R.C.A.
PTE. B. BOURCHARD C.I.C.
P/O E. CADHAM R.C.A.F.
PTE. P. CHOMYSHYN C.I.C.
MAJ. L.J. FOSS R.E.
TPR. G.M. GATES C.A.C.
F/O G.E. HOTLEY R.C.A.F.
F/RT. L. HILLIER R.C.A.F.
F/O P.M. HETHERINGTON R.C.A.F.

RFN. E. MAKETA C.I.C.
F/O V. MIETTINEN R.C.A.F.

SGT. E.P. MILNER R.C.A.F.
SGT-P E.J. MILNER R.C.A.F.
F/O G.B. MILNER R.C.A.F.
PTE. W. MOORE C.I.C.
CPL. T. PELLETIER C.I.C.
CPL. J.J. PINARD C.O.C.
PTE. J. PLAVETICH C.I.C.
A/C W. POE R.C.A.F.
PTE. J.A. ROULEAU C.I.C.
CFN. T.S. SHACKLETON

PTE. L. SWEENEY C.I.C.
PTE. J.R. TREMBLAY C.I.C.
PTE. J. TURCOTTE C.I.C.
SGT. R. McCRANK R.C.A.K.

ÉRIGÉ PAR LA LÉGION CANADIENNE SUCCURSALE 76 ET LES
CITOYENS DE VAL D’OR, BOURL, AMAQUE, MALARTIC.

ERECTED BY BRANCH 76 CANADIAN LEGION B.E.S.L. AND THE
CITIZENS OF BOURL, AMAQUE, VAL D’OR AND MALARTIC.


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