This memorial recognizes the ultimate sacrifice given by those from Breton, Alberta, who died in the First and Second World Wars as well as in Korea.
The text of the plaque includes:
Village of Breton
and
Royal Canadian Legion
Warburg Branch 205
In Memory of
Our Fallen Comrades
1914 - 1918
1939 - 1945
We Shall Remember Them
In addition there is a small plaque that was added in recognition of the Korean War which simply states:
Korea 1950 - 1953
Peace Keepers
In addition, there are a number of residents mentioned on a third plaque as well. The names include:
Leonard Boon
Evans Carson
Floyd Carson
Reg Carson
Wayne Carson
Chester Fenneman
Laurel Fenneman
Warren Fenneman
John Funnell
Douglas Smith
John Smith
George Impey
George Frank Impey
Hugh Impey
Charles Ing
Walter Ing
Jim Levers
Ken Levers
Ralph Levers
Andrew Pacholko
Alvin Ellis
Lloyd Ellis
Milo Scott
Elmer Hook
Mark Hook
Richard Hook
Russell Webster
Ted Gryzb
T.R. Chapin
John Jacobson
Earl Jacobson
The text from the poem by Binyon on the memorial:
At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them"
The quote is from the fourth stanza of the poem "For the Fallen" by Robert Laurence Binyon.
The full text of the poem is:
For the Fallen by Laurence Binyon
WITH proud thanksgiving, a mother for her children
England mourns for her dead across the sea.
Flesh of her flesh they were, spirit of her spirit,
Fallen in the cause of the free.
Solemn the drums thrill; Death august and royal
Sings sorrow up into immortal spheres,
There is music in the midst of desolation
And a glory that shines upon our tears.
They went with songs to the battle, they were young,
Straight of limb, true of eye, steady and aglow.
They were staunch to the end against odds uncounted;
They fell with their faces to the foe.
They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old:
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.
At the going down of the sun and in the morning
We will remember them.
They mingle not with their laughing comrades again;
They sit no more at familiar tables of home;
They have no lot in our labour of the day-time;
They sleep beyond England’s foam.
But where our desires are and our hopes profound,
Felt as a well-spring that is hidden from sight,
To the innermost heart of their own land they are known
As the stars are known to the Night;
As the stars that shall be bright when we are dust,
Moving in marches upon the heavenly plain;
As the stars that are starry in the time of our darkness,
To the end, to the end, they remain.
Wikipedia describes Binyon's life as follows:
Robert Laurence Binyon (10 August 1869 at Lancaster – 10 March 1943 at Reading, Berkshire) was an English poet, dramatist and art scholar. His most famous work, For the Fallen, is well known for being used in Remembrance Sunday services in the UK, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
Moved by the opening of the Great War and the already high number of casualties of the British Expeditionary Force, in 1914 Laurence Binyon wrote his For the Fallen, with its Ode of Remembrance, as he was visiting the cliffs near Pentire Head in north Cornwall (where a plaque commemorates it nowadays.) The piece was published by The Times newspaper in September, when public feeling was affected by the recent Battle of Marne.
Today Binyon's most famous poem, For the Fallen, is often recited at Remembrance Sunday services in the UK, and an integral part of Anzac Day services in Australia and New Zealand, and 11 November Remembrance Day services in Canada. The third and fourth verses of the poem (although often just the fourth) have so been claimed as a tribute to all casualties of war, regardless of nation.
See: Wikipedia Link