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World Wars Memorial

 
 
World Wars Memorial (<i>southeast</i>) image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, May 31, 2024
1. World Wars Memorial (southeast)
Inscription.
[southeast]
Through sacrifice they gave their today for our tomorrow
Our Honoured Dead
1939-1945
Howard D. Chamberlain • Eric Innes • Ainslee M. McNeely • Frederick Innes • Herbert Osborne • Arnold Starke • Elmer Stevenson • Frederick C. Bitten

Perpetuating their memory and in honor of all those who carried on in the Great Wars from the Village of Norwood

Yres
St. Eloi
1950 Korea 1953

[northeast]
Our Honoured Dead
William Starkey • Sidney White • Russell Pearce • Eric Alley • Henry Murphy • Herbert J. Stuart • Walter Brett • Thomas E. Cross • Louis G. Beckett • John F. Rathwell • T. Arthur Searight • Elias Cross • Robert A. Leeper

The Somme
Vimy Ridge

[northwest]
1914   1915   1916   1917   1918

Passchendaele
Amiens

[southwest]
Our Honoured Dead
Geo Townsend • Robert Chamberlain • Russell Scriver • Ezeric Aboud • Karn Hendren • A. Theodore Burgess • David Brooks • Joseph Kelly • Arthur Parcels • William J. Whyte • Edward Grout • Michael Noyes • Jacob Quackenbush

Cambrai
Mons
 
Topics. This memorial is listed in these topic lists: Patriots & Patriotism • War, Korean • War, World I • War, World II.
 
Location. 44° 22.972′ N,
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77° 58.859′ W. Memorial is in Norwood, Ontario, in Peterborough County. It is at the intersection of Ridge Street (County Road 40) and County Road 45, on the left when traveling north on Ridge Street. Touch for map. Memorial is at or near this postal address: 42 Ridge Street, Norwood ON K0L 2V0, Canada. Touch for directions.

Regionally, this memorial is in the Kawarthas Northumberland Area and in Eastern 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 23 kilometers of this marker, measured as the crow flies: Hastings Cenotaph (approx. 8.4 kilometers away); The Founding of Hastings (approx. 8.5 kilometers away); Seabrook Historical Monument (approx. 9.3 kilometers away); Township of Havelock-Belmont-Methuen (approx. 9.5 kilometers away); Founders of Campbellford (approx. 16.6 kilometers away); Trent-Severn Waterway National Historic Site of Canada
World Wars Memorial (<i>northeast</i>) image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, May 31, 2024
2. World Wars Memorial (northeast)
(approx. 16.6 kilometers away); Old Mill Park (approx. 16.6 kilometers away); J.D. Kelly 1862-1958 (approx. 21.5 kilometers away).
 
World Wars Memorial (<i>northwest</i>) image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, May 31, 2024
3. World Wars Memorial (northwest)
World Wars Memorial (<i>southwest</i>) image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, May 31, 2024
4. World Wars Memorial (southwest)
World Wars Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, May 31, 2024
5. World Wars Memorial
World Wars Memorial image. Click for full size.
Photographed by Cosmos Mariner, May 31, 2024
6. World Wars Memorial
 
 
Credits. This page was last revised on October 31, 2026. It was originally submitted on October 31, 2026, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida. This page has been viewed 7 times since then. Photos:   1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. submitted on October 31, 2026, by Cosmos Mariner of Cape Canaveral, Florida.
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