St Paul's Bloor Street Church Cenotaph - Toronto, ON Canada
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St Paul's Bloor Street Church Cenotaph - Toronto, ON Canada
Waymark Code: WM7A3E
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 09/25/2009
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The this churchyard cross is located in the front of St Paul's Bloor Street on Bloor Street between Church and Jarvis in downtown Toronto.
St. Paul’s is the garrison church of the Queen’s Own Rifles of Canada regiment; the Cenotaph honours those that fought and died for the regiment since the late 1800s, WWI and WWII. The cross, inlaid with a sword, is the location of the annual Rememberance Day ceremony.
The Cenotaph's main inscription: "To Our Honoured Dead" and "The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada"
Also inscribed is a list of battles:
Before 1900
Fenian Raid, 1866
Ridgeway
North West Canada, 1885
Relief of Battleford
Cut Knife
South Africa, 1899-1900
First World War
Ypres, 1915, '17
Gravenstafel
St Julien
Festubert, 1915
Mount Sorrel
Somme 1916
Pozieres
Flers-Courcelette
Ancre Heights
Arras 1917, '18
Vimy 1917
Arelux
Scarpe, 1917, '18
Hill 20
Passchendaele
Amiens
Drocourt-Queant
Hindenburg Line
Canal Du Nord
Pursuit to Mons
France and Flanders, 1915-1918
Second World War
Normandy Landing
Le Mesnil-Patry
Caen
Carpiqiet
Bourguebus Ridge
Faubourg De Vaucelles
Falaise
Quesnay Wood
The Laison
Boulogne, 1944
Calais, 1944
The Scheldt
Breskins Pocket
The Rhineland
Waal Flats
The Hochwald
The Rhine
Emmerich-Hoch Elten
Deventer
North-West Europe 1944-1945
Links
St Paul's Bloor Street
- History
- Brochure
- Church Bulletin, Rememberance Day Service at the Cenotaph
The Queen's Own Rifles of Canada
QOR Battle Honours