Veterans Memorial Gates - Orono Cemetery - Orono, ON
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jiggs11
N 43° 59.198 W 078° 37.032
17T E 691083 N 4873148
Distinctive stone piller and wrought iron gates at the entrance to Orono Cemetery, dedicated to those who died during the Great War.
Waymark Code: WMNABR
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 01/31/2015
Views: 1
Memorial gateway at the entrance to the Orono cementery. The gates were erected in November, 1922 to honour those from Orono and Clarke Township who made the supreme sacrifice during the First World War.
Each piller has a bronze marker listing the dead.
Marker text:
Left:
IN GRATEFUL MEMORY OF THOSE
THAT GAVE THEIR LIVES
FOR KING AND COUNTRY
CLAYTON S. ANDRUS
ARTHUR BARNARD
REGINALD BARTON
LIONEL BOWEN
JAMES BOWEN
FLETCHER J. CAIN
STANLEY COLLINS
SAMUEL C. CLANVILLE
FREDERICK W. GIBSON
LELAND W. HOOPER
J. HARVEY JACKSON
DAVID LAW
W.N. LOWNIE
WILBERT J. MALLORY
ROLAND M. WHITE
THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE
Right:
AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN
AND IN THE MORNING
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM
DONALD R. MC.DONALD
GEORGE NODEN
GEORGE OPENSHAW
ROBERT PATTON
ERNEST D. ROWE
FRANK SHIPWAY
A.M. STUART
OSCAR SOWDEN
A. MALCOLM STEWART
H. RAY SIMPSON
GEORGE CHARMAN
LYNESS A.M. HENRY
JAMES A. LITTLE
WILFRED G. HOY
THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE
Date the Monument or Memorial was built or dedicated: 11/11/1922
Private or Public Monument?: Government
Name of the Private Organization or Government Entity that built this Monument: Township of Clatke, Town of Orono.
Geographic Region where the Monument is located: North America
Physical Address of Monument:
Orono Cemetery
Orono, ON CA
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