Belleville Cenotaph

In 2001, elements from the original Belleville Cenotaph were incorporated into the centre piece of the new cenotaph. It is flanked to the left by a First World War stone, a peacekeeping stone and the Thurlow Cenotaph.  A Second World War stone, a Merchant Navy/Korean War stone and an Afghanistan stone flank the right.

In July 2019, three names were added to the First World War stones: ace pilot Flight Sub Lieutenant Ellis Reid, infantry officer Lt. David Forneri and Nursing Sister Florie Forneri. A dedication ceremony took place at 1 pm in Memorial Park on Sunday, July 28, 2019. John Stewart LeBaron engraved the three names. He is the supervisor of cemetery lettering for Belleville’s Campbell Monument – and the Forneris’ cousin.

In the fall of 2018, LeBaron’s grandfather, John Geen, realized the names were missing from the cenotaph. Neil Burrell, a Belleville historian who had put together the display, and another local historian, Loyalist College graduate Robyn May, dug through historical records to prove they had been born in Belleville and died while serving in the war. Reverend Dr. Allan Miller, another local resident, then told May and Burrell about pilot Flight Sub-Lieut. Ellis Vair Reid.

The names may have been left off the cenotaph because their families moved away from the city before the war broke out, so they would not have thought to submit the names of their fallen loved ones when the Belleville Cenotaph was built.

These three engraving were not the first change to the cenotaph. When a new Second World War stone was engraved in 2001, some names were corrected and three added. Within a year or two, Stanley Ernest Dainard was added to the same stone.

[center piece front/centre devant]

LEST WE FORGET

1914 - 1919

NAME LIVETH FOR EVER

[left side/côté gauche]

1939 - 1945

[peacekeeping stone/pierre commémorative du maintien de la paix]

PEACE
KEEPING

HENDERSON DOUGLAS M. 

[First World War stone/pierre commémorative de la Première Guerre mondiale]

WORLD WAR I
1914 - 1918

• [column one/première colonne]
• ABLARDE HARRY
• ADAMSON JAMES
• ALLEN BERTRAM K.
• ARCHIBALD JOHN L.
• ASHLEY W. S. SEYMOUR
• ASSELSTINE CHARLES
• ASSELSTINE VINCENT
• BARNETT C. W.
• BARNHARDT HARRY D.
• BARTLETT C.
• BEATON ALEX
• BELCH CHARLES
• BELCH REUBEN
• BLACK HOWARD
• BONE R.
• BOWYER JAMES C.
• BOYLE HAROLD
• BROWN CECIL E.
• BROWN ERNEST E.
• BUCK LEROY
• BURKE HARRY
• BURROWS CLIFFORD
• CADDICK J.
• CANNIFF JOHN
• CARLOW JAMES D.
• CARROLL HORACE Y.
• CARTER HENY
• CLARKE CLEMENT
• [column two/deuxième colonne]
• CLARKE JAMES
• CLEMENT CARL C.
• COBOURN FREDRICK
• COLLYER F.
• CORBY JACK
• COUSINS CHARLES
• CRAIG WALTER
• DACK E.
• DAFOE HAROLD W.
• DEANE JEFFREY
• DENTES MEACHAM
• DIEBERT MARTIN
• DINGHAM WILLIAM
• DIXON GEORGE
• DONALD ANGUS
• EVANS LESLIE
• FARROW W. T.
• FENNELL THOMAS H.
• FINNEY W. J.
• FOLEY J.
• FOX JOSEPH
• FREDRICK LEONARD
• FRENCH MALCOLM
• GALBRAITH THOMAS
• GARLING W.
• GENEREAUX F.
• GERMAN RICHARD
• GOAME GEORGE
• [column three/troisième colonne]
• GREEN ALBERT H.
• GREEN WILLIAM D.
• HALE J.
• HARVEY GEORGE
• HILTON CHARLES
• HITCHON MARSON
• HOGAN WILLIAM
• HOLGERSON SIDNEY
• HOWARD GEORGE
• HUDSON RAYMOND G.
• HUDSON WILLIAM P.
• HUNTER WILLIAM JOHN
• HYMAN EUGENE
• JARMAN HARRY
• JUBY A.
• KEEGAN JAMES
• KENNEDY JOHN
• LAMBERT J.
• LAVENDER HERBERT
• LOGAN ROBERT
• LOGUE LEO FRANCIS
• MACK JAMES
• MALLORY ARTHUR B.
• MALLORY EZRA
• MALLOY JAMES
• MATTHEWS GEORGE
• MCCABE EARL F.
• MCCONACHIE W.

• [column four/quatrième colonne]
• MCCOY ARTHUR J.
• MCCRODAN T. H. G.
• MCCREARY HARRY E.
• MCGLASHON D. J.
• MCHUGH FRANK
• MCINTYRE DOUGLAS
• MCMICHAEL WILLIAM A.
• MEES JAMES ERNEST
• MILLER JOHN
• MONDVILLE FOX
• MOORE E. J.
• MOSSMAN DAVID
• MUNNEY ALFRED
• MURRAY WILLIAM D.
• NUNNEY ALFRED
• OSTROM ARTHUR
• PARKS DAVID
• PAULEY PHILLIP
• PEARCE CHARLES R.
• PICKELL CLAYTON E.
• PICKELL ISAAC
• PORTER ROGER
• POSTE BURT
• POSTE WILLIAM
• POWELL ARTHUR
• PREST HAROLD
• PRICE HENRY J.
• QUICK FRED
• [column five/cinquième colonne]
• REDFERN A.
• REID HAROLD M.
• ROBINSON WILLIAM MORRIS
• ROSS LEO
• ROWE HARRY J.
• RUTTER MORLEY
• SHAW WILLIAM A.
• SMITH JONATHAN
• STARK ANDREW
• STEWART JOSEPH A.
• TEMPLETON ARTHUR
• TOWNSEND EDWARD J.
• VANCE LEE
• VANCE THOMAS
• VANDERVOORT MILTON
• WALLACE ERNEST D.
• WALLBRIDGE SHELLY K.
• WARDAUGH EDWARD
• WARRILOW RICHARD
• WATERS JAMES S.
• WATERSON DOUGLAS
• WATKINS HARRY
• WHEELER EARL
• WIMS THOMAS
• WOODS WILLIAM
• WRIGHTMEYER H.
• YATEMAN T.
• YEOMAN HORACLE

[bottom/en bas]

WE WILL REMEMBER THEM

[Second World War stone/pierre commémorative de la Seconde Guerre mondiale]

WORLD WAR II
1939 - 1945

• [column one/première colonne]
• BAIRD H.F.
• BARCLAY J.M.
• BARRETT J.M.
• BEDELL L.E.
• BRADDEN H.L.
• BRADLEY F.J.
• BRANT K.
• BROADRIBB A.
• BROOKS E.R.
• BRUYEA W.E.
• BRYANT J.R.
• BURKHOLDER G.W.
• CALBURY G.
• CALBURY R.B.
• CLAPP V.
• CLARKE E.K.
• COLLINS H.W.
• COOK C.E.L.
• COONEY S.R.
• COXON T.
• CULBERTSON J.
• CUNNINGHAM C.
• DAINARD S.E.
• [column two/deuxième colonne]
• DAY E.
• DORAN A.J.
• DOUGLAS D.B.
• DRAKE R.
• DROHN W.
• DUGGAN T.A.
• DUNKLEY G.A.
• EMBURY J.H.C.
• EVANS J.S.
• FAULKNER W.V.
• FITZGERALD G.H. (N.S.)
• FOLEY T.L.
• FULTON J.C.
• GAILEY E.
• GANNON W.M.
• GAUTHIER J.J.
• GRAHAM G.K.
• GRAVES T.A.
• GREEN H.K.
• HALL J.
• HANNAN N.H.
• HARTER H.R.
•   
• [column three/troisième colonne]
• HOLLAND T.J.
• HOWE E.F.
• HUBBS H.C.
• HUNT N.B.
• HUNTER J.R.
• JONES H.M.
• JUBY A.F.
• KEECH J.L.
• KELLAWAY L.E.
• KELLHER J.E.
• KEMP A.
• KYDD C.T.
• LANGTON T.L.
• LEWIS D.H.
• LIDDLE W.K.
• MACFARLANE R.S.
• MACKENZIE J.I.
• MARTIN A.F.G.
• MACCAW J.F.
• MCCORMICK J.
• MCQUAID W.W.
• MONCRIEFF H.R.

• [column four/quatrième colonne]
• MOREAU L.H.
• MORRIS G.
• NICHOLSON C.F.
• PARSONS J.G.
• PEACOCK R.E.
• PEETS T.W.
• PEPPER G.T.
• PEPPER J.H.
• PERRY W.A.
• PRICE J.J.
• REED O.
• ROBINSON J.R.
• ROBLIN J.R.
• ROWLAND J.
• RUSHLOW A.S.
• RUTTAN D.C.
• RUTTAN E.M.
• SAGER R.E.
• SARGENT W.B.
• SHARPE G.D.
• SHARPE H.M.
• SHOENER K.F.
• [column five/cinquième colonne]
• SOULE G.A.
• SPAFFORD W.M.
• STEWARD J.A.
• STEWART G.
• STEWART G.P.
• STIRLAND A.F.
• THOMPSON L.
• TRIPP C.L.
• TRIPP W.W.
• TURNER R.R.
• WAY L.M.
• WAY S.
• WEESE R.A.
• WEYMARK J.
• WHITE J.
• WHITE J.A.C.
• WHITE R.A.
• WHITTARD F.H.
• WILKINS E.W.
• WILSON B.
• WISKIN J.H.C.
• ZEBEDEE W.W.

[Merchant Navy/Korean War stone/pierre commémorative de la Marine marchande et de la guerre de Corée]

MERCHANT
NAVY

1914 - 1919

1939 - 1945

KOREA
1950 - 1953

BARLOW GEORGE T.

[plaque/plaque]

KOREA
1950 - 1953

IN MEMORY OF THOSE WHO SERVED AND
DIED IN KOREA
MAY THEIR NAMES LIVE IN GLORY FOREVER
AND THEIR SOULS REST IN HEAVEN ABOVE

LEST WE FORGET

[Afghanistan stone/pierre commémorative de la mission en Afghanistan]

TO THOSE WHO SERVED
2002  AFGHANISTAN  2014