Fort Erie Cenotaph
Municipality/Province: Fort Erie, ON
Memorial number: 35019-006
Type: Shaft, statue
Address: Mather Circle
Location: Mather Park
GPS coordinates: Lat: 42.9000685 Long: -78.9183949
Submitted by: Robert Shipley
Photo credit: Tim Laye, Ontario War Memorials
The Fort Erie Cenotaphl is a large marble slab, engraved with the names of the dead, with a statue of a World War One soldier on top. It was installed by the Niagara Parks Commision in a park-like setting, overlooking Lake Erie and the start of the Niagara River. The city of Buffalo, New York sits across the lake. Only a few hundred metres away is the restored Fort Erie, the site of a several historic battles during the War of 1812.
Inscription found on memorial
[front/devant]
THEY GAVE
THEIR TODAY
FOR OUR
TO-MORROW
WORLD WAR I
1914 - 1918
WORLD WAR II
1939 - 1945
KOREA
1950 - 1953
[right side/côté droit]
1939 - 1945
DONALD A. NIXON
JOHN R. KEE
JACK MCSPADDEN
EARL D. WHITE
ELMER DRANGER
CHARLES PARTIMER
JAMES MOORE
ALLEN W. TROUP
ROSS C. CLOUSTON
JOHN DIETRICH
HARRY R. THYRET
ROBERT R. WALLACE
LLOYD G. ERDMAN
HOWARD E. WARREN
C. BRUCE THOMPSON.
[back/arrière]
1914-1918
OUR HONOURED DEAD
- THOMAS LANGSTAFF
- GEORGE GASS
- HUBERT DEWEY MILLS
- WILLIAM ARTHUR SMITH
- B. VENZENO
- HARRY THOMAS WARDELL
- ARTHUR CHARLES PRIOR
- CHARLES HUBBARD
- GEORGE O'DONNELL
- WILLIAM ATKINSON
- FRANK DARTON
- GORDON FERGUSON
- JOHN BYERS
- EDWARD FRANCIS H. BAILEY
- WILLIAM LOUIS BARNHART
- ERNEST PLATO
- ALFRED JAMES PARDOE
- HERBERT HARRY GEAR
- EDWARD JAMES HARE
- CHARLES BALL
- JAMES ANDREW RUSSELL
- JOHN HAROLD RICHMOND
- LESLIE EDWARDS
- ALFRED JAMES OSBORNE
- THOMAS PENGELLEY
- JOHN BRIGHT
- DONALD GORDON MCLEAN
- HENRY GARFIELD CAMPBELL
- WILLIAM MACKENDRICK HENRY
- MORRIS ROY BUNN
- ALFRED INGALLS
- LESLIE JAMES YULE
- EDWARD SUTHERLAND MALKIN
- CHARLES JOHN FICKEL
- ROBERT WATSON
- CECIL KENDALL
- WILLIAM ALBERT RANDALL
- JAMES ARTHUR COLIN CAMPBELL
- FRANK HALIBURTON RUSSEL
THEIR NAME LIVETH FOREVER MORE
[left side/côté gauche]
1939 - 1945
JAMES E. OSBORN
CARL SAUER
R.D. ROBERTSON
THOMAS DIPIETRO
CARL OSWALD
BEN R. CUNLIFFE
FRED G. THOMPSON
WILLIAM PROW
HARTFORD COOK
GEO D. FITZ-GIBBON
EARL W. LEMCKE
FRANK H. WALDEN
GORDON BARNHART
CHARLES ROSE
DONALD G. LEASK
EARL L.G. SPEAKMAN
ROLAND FISHER
FREDERICK T. GARDNER
JOHN C. WILHELMS
Street view
Note
This information is provided by contributors and Veterans Affairs Canada makes it available as a service to the public. Veterans Affairs Canada is not responsible for the accuracy, currency or reliability of the information.
- Date modified: