Monday 23 January 2012

Priceville


Location:  N 44° 12.194 W 080° 37.545  On Kindardine Street, just off Grey Road 4.


Erected by the residents of Priceville, after the Great War, this cenotaph also honours those lost in WW2.
One hundred and twenty-six men from the Priceville area served with the Canadian Expeditionary Force int he First World War. Fifteen were killed, sixty were wounded.
A German Field Machine Gun is also on display in the park.

Text on the monument reads as follows:

Front:
OUR FALLEN HEROES
1914-1918
Goldwin Patterson, John H. MacDonald, Dan McNalty, James Whyte, Donald L. MacKinnon, Thomas L. Mather, Isaac A. Pinkerton, Irvine MacArthur, Alex MacVicar, Archibald A. MacKinnon, Neil J. MacMillan, Robert E. MacLean, Henry C. MacIntosh, Colin MacLean

YPRES MONS

Rear:
IN HONOUR
OF ALL WHO SERVED
AND
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
THOSE WHO DIED
FOR THE CAUSE OF
FREEDOM AND JUSTICE
IN THE GREAT WAR
1914 - 1918
Daniel R. MacKinnon

Right:
OUR FALLEN HEROES
1939-1945
T. Orval Harrison, Lorne F. MacArthur, W. Marvin Sturrock, J. Garfield Whyte, Lloyd V. Whyte








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