Hanover in Grey County, Ontario — Central Canada (North America)

Hanover Cenotaph

Photographed by Tim Boyd, July 4, 2025

1. Hanover Cenotaph [north side]

Inscription.
[north side]
To commemorate the sacrifice of our honoured dead in the Great War 1914 - 1918

[east side]
Our honoured dead
Stanley Prewett James · Thomas Henry McGeach · Frederick George Hawkes · James Selkirk Wilson · Howard James Scales · Norman Binkley · Richard Harvey Tindale · Arthur Zimmerman · Coleman Boyd Adams · John Welbon · Earl Lewis Devlin · Andrew Albert Mordt

[west side]
Our Honoured Dead
Fraser Robert Miller · George Henry Musgrove D S O · Edward Lobsinger · Herman Holler · Edgar Stanley George · Wilbur James Flynn · William Perkinsa · Douglas Bates · Charles Robert Adair · William Henry Turner · Gordon Alexander Glauser · Andrew Black · James David MacKenzie

[south side]
Korea
1950 - 1953

1939 1945
Our Honoured Dead
Roscoe D. Brubaker · Raymond G. Bruegeman · John A. Caskanette · Vincent Crawford · Clement J. Esbaugh · Raymond A. Cardiner D.F.C. · Graham S. Blake · Leo J. Bohnert · Jack E. Bailey · Hugh A. Cooney · Henry J. Hahn · John F. Harbey · Morris C. Jones · Edward L. Kutz · John B. Lancaster · Grant A.

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Lorenz · John D. Miller · William W. Reeve · Nelson H. Wagner · John I. Wallner · Maurice F. Hunsperger · Gerald R. Machesney · Robert C. Pickering · Kenneth G. Schaefer · Robert H. Schaefer · Stewart Whitehead

Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: War, Korean • War, World I • War, World II.

Location. 44° 9.13′ N, 81° 1.584′ W. Memorial is in Hanover, Ontario, in Grey County. It is at the intersection of 10th Street and 10th Avenue, on the right when traveling east on 10th Street. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 331 10th St, Hanover ON N4N N4N, Canada. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in Georgian Bay Country

and in Southwestern Ontario.

It is also in Central Canada.

Globally, it is in North America,

the Western Hemisphere,

the Western World,

and the Anglosphere.

Historically, it finds itself 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

Hanover Cenotaph Marker [east side] image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Tim Boyd, July 4, 2025

2. Hanover Cenotaph Marker [east side]

21 kilometers of this marker, measured as the crow flies: The Founding of Hanover / La Fondation de Hanover (within shouting distance of this marker); Daniel Knechtel 1843 - 1936 (about 120 meters away, measured in a direct line); “Tommy Burns” (about 150 meters away); The Rt. Hon. John G. Diefenbaker (approx. 8.3 kilometers away); The Founding of Walkerton (approx. 9.8 kilometers away); Founding of Durham (approx. 16.3 kilometers away); 2 Elora Street (approx. 20.7 kilometers away); The Founding of Clifford (approx. 20.7 kilometers away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Hanover.

Hanover Cenotaph [west side] image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Tim Boyd, July 4, 2025

3. Hanover Cenotaph [west side]

Hanover Cenotaph [south side] image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Tim Boyd, July 4, 2025

4. Hanover Cenotaph [south side]

Hanover Cenotaph image. Click for full size.

Photographed by Tim Boyd, July 4, 2025

5. Hanover Cenotaph

Credits. This page was last revised on July 30, 2025. It was originally submitted on July 19, 2025, by Tim Boyd of Hamilton, Ontario. This page has been viewed 66 times since then and 10 times this year. Photos: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5. submitted on July 19, 2025, by Tim Boyd of Hamilton, Ontario. • Andrew Ruppenstein was the editor who published this page.