Jarvis in Haldimand County, Ontario — Central Canada (North America)

Jarvis and Walpole War Memorial

Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, May 25, 2022

1. Jarvis and Walpole War Memorial
(west tablet)

Inscription.
[west tablet]For those who fell and
served in the World War
1914 — 1918

[north tablet]The
Glorious Dead
Ken. Church • Jno. Stingle • Andw. Doughty • Chris. Walker • Wm. Maxwell
Ches. Rogers • H.J. Wills • Jas. Dunnett • Jos. Powell

[south tablet]Honouring
Our Heroic Dead
World War II
1939 — 1945
Allan Anderson • Lloyd Anderson • Leslie E. Blight • Earl Bray • John W. Columbus • Harry Leatherdale • Lloyd Marr • James E. Miller • Berkley Mitchell • Edwin McKeen • Roy H. Nelson • Charles Rawcliffe • Roy M. Schaeffer • J. Arthur Steward • Gordon Taylor • Frank Veenstra

[east tablet]
When the Commonwealth Air Training Programme closed in early 1945 39 Airmen from No. 1 B and C Jarvis had lost their lives by accidents. The first 10 names below are of those whose remains were elected to remain in the Air Force Plot in the adjoining cemetery.

George Best RAF July 3/44 L.A.C.
Ray McNabb RAAF July 6/41 L.A.C.
Keneth Slater RAAF July 23/42 P.O.
George R. Troutbeck RCAF N.Z. June 11/43 Fl. Sarg.
Charles Taggart RAAF July 6/41 L.A.C.
Norman Wade RAF Nov. 9/42 Sarg.
John Bradford Watts RAAF July 3/44 Fl. Sarg.
Robert Waller RAF July 3/44 L.A.C.
John

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Whitehead RCAF N.Z. Aug. 18/42 P.O.
John Williams RAF July 23/42 L.A.C.
Reginal Powell Aug. 5/45 L.A.C.
Robert Lang July 29/63 H.L. Inf.
Edward Chapman Aug. 29/72 RCEME

Erected by the Jarvis Lions Club on the
50th Anniversary of D. Day.

Erected by Jarvis W. I.; and Jarvis Lions Club.

Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: Air & Space • Education • War, World I • War, World II.

Location. 42° 53.236′ N, 80° 6.681′ W. Memorial is in Jarvis, Ontario, in Haldimand County. It is on Walpole Drive just south of Monson Street, on the left when traveling south. Marker is located near the southwest corner of the Haldimand County Public Library Jarvis Branch. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 2 Monson Street, Jarvis ON N0A 1J0, Canada. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in the Southwest Ontario Area

and in Southwestern Ontario.

It is also in Central Canada.

Globally, it is in North America,

on the Great Lakes,

in the Western Hemisphere,

in the Western World,

and in the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself

Jarvis and Walpole War Memorial<br>(<i>north tablet</i>) image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, May 25, 2022

2. Jarvis and Walpole War Memorial
(north tablet)

in what was once a British colony,

the Viceroyalty of New France,

the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy,

and Rupert’s Land.

Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 14 kilometers of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Nanticoke (approx. 9.1 kilometers away); Dollier and Galinée (approx. 12.1 kilometers away); Wilson Pugsley MacDonald (1880-1967) (approx. 13 kilometers away); Cliff Site National Historic Site (approx. 13.2 kilometers away); Campbell's Raid 1814 (approx. 13.3 kilometers away); The Fishing Years (approx. 13.4 kilometers away); “Midnight Herring” (approx. 13.4 kilometers away); My Kahlenberg Dream - Harry B. Barrett (approx. 13.4 kilometers away).

More about this memorial. Additional tablets were added to this memorial honoring World War II heroic dead, and on the 50th Anniversary of D-Day, to honor WWII Airmen who died accidentally.

Also see . . . British Commonwealth Air Training Plan. The Canadian Encyclopedia website entry:

In 1939, Canada, Great Britain, New Zealand and Australia signed an agreement creating the British Commonwealth Air Training Plan (BCATP). Located
Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, May 25, 2022

3. Jarvis and Walpole War Memorial
(south tablet)
in Canada, the plan's mandate was to train Allied aircrews for the Second World War, including pilots, navigators, bomb aimers, wireless operators, air gunners, and flight engineers. More than 130,000 crewmen and women were trained between 1939 and 1945, making this one of Canada's great contributions to Allied victory in the war. It led United States President Franklin Roosevelt to call Canada the "aerodrome of democracy."

(Submitted on May 31, 2022, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.)

Jarvis and Walpole War Memorial<br>(<i>east tablet</i>) image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, May 25, 2022

4. Jarvis and Walpole War Memorial
(east tablet)

Jarvis and Walpole War Memorial image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, May 25, 2022

5. Jarvis and Walpole War Memorial

Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, May 25, 2022

6. Jarvis and Walpole War Memorial

(Haldimand County Public Library Jarvis Branch in background)

Knox Presbyterian Church Cemetery image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, May 25, 2022

7. Knox Presbyterian Church Cemetery

(located just south of marker)

Credits. This page was last revised on July 11, 2026. It was originally submitted on May 31, 2022, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida. This page has been viewed 429 times since then and 18 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7. submitted on May 31, 2022, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.