War Memorial Brockville

The monument is of an advancing WW1 soldier holding a rifle with bayonet fixed in one hand and a hand grenade in the other hand.

The monument is inscribed with:

"To you from falling hands we throw the torch, be yours to hold it high, if ye break faith with us who die, we shall not sleep, though poppies grow in Flanders Fields." (from the poem In Flanders Fields by Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrea, Canadian Field Artillery and Royal Canadian Medical Corps)

Their names liveth for evermore.

Greater love hath no man than this - that a man lay down his life for his friends. Korea 1950-1953.

and

The battles in which the men of Brockville served: Passchendaele, Amiens, Arras and Cambrai, Ypres, Sanctuary, Wood, Courcelette and Vimy Ridge
1914-1919
1939-1945

Korea 1950-1953.

The monument was unveiled on 23 May 1924.


Two additions at the monuments base honours the those who served in The Second World War, the Korean War and United Nations Peackeepers.

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Source

• Text: John Kabesh
• Photos: John Kabesh