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Edition 430, November 20, 2014 (Next Issue Dec. 4 • Deadline is Mon. Dec. 1) Cenotaphs in the areas where the Springwater News might be found
Oro Township
Angus
Cityof Barrie cenotaph constructed in June 1922 - 23 ft, 9 inches high (157 names)
Waverley (1920) on the four corners of Tiny, Tay, Flos and Medonte
We found it hard to accumulate information about these cenotaphs. We found that there were 6,664 national registered memorials at the National Inventory of Canadian Military Memorials NICMM but when we went there, I could not find a registry for some of these. Only by luck could we find (on the internet) the number of names on any Cenotaph. Waverley and Elmvale has many of the same names on them. In Barrie, there are 22 names mentioned for Vespra but on Remembrance Day, Davis Morrison and Mica Pearson read 29 names. Their teacher, Clint Lovell from Eastview SS, said “There were no set rules or controls on war memorials. They were commissioned, designed and paid for by local communities. The locals collected the names. Many ... people moved west before the war. Several remained on the local memorial as families were still here. Others might be on a memorial in another town. Sometimes a young widow might move in with parents in another city and prefer to have her husband on that cenotaph. Some guys were recent immigrants and had no family to put their name forward. Spelling mistakes also happened and were not corrected once in stone.” I went to Springwater Park along with 200 other people. Wayne Cameron MC’d that service. That is why we are naming the Vespra Boys!
Elmvale
Penetanguishene (65 names)
Midland (110 names)
Georgian College (opened 11/11/11)
(29) VESPRA BOYS ROLL OF HONOUR
Private Frederick Harman Benson, Missing in action, France 1918 age 32. Lieutenant Arthur Bell, Wounded 3 times he kept moving forward until mowed down by machine gun fire. France 1918 age ? Private Ernest Cloughley, killed by a gunshot wound to the spine, France 1915 age 22. Private Lewis Cole, left his job in a Midland shell factory and lasted one week in the trenches. He died of shellfire wounds to the hip. Oct. 22, 1918 age 23. Private Ernest Alexander Finlay, killed in action
France 1917 age 33. John Wilson Greaves conscripted in 1917 Private William Frederick Higgins, badly wounded Ypres 1915, repatriated as a prisoner of war. Died of his wounds 1918. Private Herbert Roy Hodgson, killed in action on the Somme 1916 age 18. Lance Sergeant William George Hodgson, killed by a bullet to the head while standing in a shell hole giving orders to his men. France 1918. Private Arthur Ewart Jacobs, killed by shrapnel from shellfire during the attack on Vimy Ridge 1917, age 27. Private James Johnston, died of wounds after his leg was blown off by a shell at Passchendaele 1917 age 28. Private Wallace Key, killed instantly by shellfire in the Battle of Amiens, France 1918 age 17. Private William Lang, killed in action on the Somme age 17. Private Harry Leggott, died from gunshot wound to the abdomen, France 1918 age 29. Private Sidney Lennox, killed in action Ypres, 1915 age 21. Private Harry Lyfytt, killed in action after only one week in the trenches, Passchendale 1917 age 31. He left a wife with two daughters a half month old and two years old. Private John Garnet Maw, died of tuberculosis in 1919 contracted during his service. Private Michael Frank McAvoy, killed by shellfire Valentine's Day 1918 age 31. Robert Morgan, killed in action in the battle of Fresnoy, May 1917 age 25.
Springwater Park (1930) 29 names
Private John Muir, killed in action Passchendaele 1917 age 37. Roy Pratt (No information) Private William John Parke, shot through the head in the attack on Bellevue Spur near Passchendaele 1917 age 32. Private J.H. Priest, United States Army, died of Spanish Influenza Camp Grant, Illinois 1918. Private Albert Pringle, killed instantly by a sniper, France 1918. Lance Corporal D'Arcy Reynolds, killed by shrapnel wounds to the head and chest while defending a newly captured trench, France 1918 age 28. Acting Sergeant Stanley Reynolds, died of wounds sustained at 2nd Ypres in Saskatchewan 1918. ??????? Private Edwin George Ruffet, killed in action St. Eloi, Belgium 1916 age 23. Private George Herbert Selkirk, killed in action Vimy Ridge 1917 age 26. Private William Ward, died of shrapnel wounds to the head and shoulders, the Somme, 1916 age 39 he left a wife and four children.