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Bow Island

Date: 04 June 2000

Location: In the town park behind the Royal Canadian Legion.

Description: Rectangular gray granite stone set in a concrete base. A bronze plaque has been added for Korea.

Construction: n/a

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Inscription:

DEDICATED
TO THE HONOR
AND SACRIFICE
OF OUR MEN
AND WOMEN
WHO SERVED
OUR COUNTRY
IN WORLD
WARS I-II


Inscription Plaque:

KOREA
1950 - 1953










Comments: No names are listed on the cenotaph. They are kept in the Royal Canadian Legion, Branch No. 197. Gordon McCormick provided the names of those from the area who died in WWI and WWII and which are listed below.


Bow Island Roll of Honour

World War I
1914 - 1918

Annon, Francis
Abbott, Sam L.
Bradley, John
Caswell, Ernest
Caswell, Fred
Depew, Alfred
Grande, Anton L.
Holma, Henry
Love, Bob
Rushford, John
Speke, Hugh


World War II
1939 - 1945

Amlim, Arnold
Bateman, Don
Belcher, Ken
Emard, Garth
Fogderud, Terence
Galvin, Leo P.
Olson, H. Gideon
Prunkell, Robert
Thomas, Jack
Torscher, Joseph
Trebble, Phyllis
Verhaest, Fred

© 2001 Donald Norrie

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