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A beacon in peace time lights way for remembrance of war time (11 photos)

The names of 104 men and woman from Collingwood who died in the First World War were read out during a ceremony this evening to mark the 100th anniversary of the First World War.

Under a black sky, a crowd gathered by the mouth of Collingwood's harbour for one more memorial service on Nov. 11. 

This one a tribute to the end of the First World War, and a commemoration being marked around the world. 

Town Crier Ken Templeman organized the local Battle's Over service, which included a reading of the 104 names listed on Collingwood's cenotaph, the local volunteers who didn't return home from war. 

The service included Don Doner on trumpet performing the Last Post, Lorne Kenney reciting In Flanders Fields, Templeman read A Cry for Peace, and Master Piper Scott Buchannan of The Grey and Simcoe Foresters Regimental Pipe and Drum band performing Battle's O'er. At the end of the ceremony, the Collingwood Fire Department lit a signal fire, called the First World War Beacon of Light. 

Church bells in town tolled 104 times, one for each name on the cenotaph. 

The Collingwood men and woman who died in the First World War include: 

May Sampson
Neil Arbuthnot
A. Brock
Robert Boyce
Charles Brown
K. Burgess
Joseph Brandon
James Beaven
D'Alton Bailey
Ernest Brown
Gordon Bantten
C. Bowes
Alex Connel
Wm. Capel
Sidney Camp
Arthur Cavill
H.J. Clark
George Cook
John Crichton
E.J. Clement
John Carmichael
James Carmichael
Colin Carmichael
Kenneth Dawson
Roy Campbell
Wilfred Copeland
Gordon Cameron
Thomas Dare
C. Dewsbury
R. Dunbar
H.A. Duncan
H.C. Eaton
F.C. Eary 
L. Elsley
S. Floyd 
Ernest Podmore
Cecil Pratt 
Roy Perry
Thomas Page
Anthony Rentner
Fred Stephens
Gordon Suter
R.A. Scobie
Frank Shannon
L.E. Stork
Robert Soulsby
Thomas Shepherd
L.H. Carmichael
Gertrude Andrews
Bert Corbet
Royal Sherrick 
R. Sheffield 
Wm. Wensley Jr. 
Ernest Wilde
H.R. Sharpe 
T.L. Sharpe 
James Scott
Stewart Telfer
Herbert Thomas
Harold Varley 
Arthur Willison
George Whiting
C.S. Wilkerson
R.W. White
H. Yates
J.V. Guilfoyle
Alex Jardene 
Lloyd Taylor
Lorne Carmichael
Ernest Free
Charles Gilpin
R.W. Glenn
Wm. Garbutt
Abram Gibson
Allan Gray
A.H. Hall
Norman Henry
Lawrence Hartley
W.G. Hedger
J.W. Habgood
R.C. Norton
Jack Hanley
Oscar Irwin
John Ironside
E. Johnstone
Wm. Jackman 
Edward L. Knight
Joseph Lagassie
A. Legg
David Lowery
Mat Lightfood
J.L. Matchett
F.S. Mason
Alex McLeod
Alex McBride
Angus McCoy
Alf McMillan
F. McKee
Stuart McNabb
Angelo Neylan
J.R. Orr
Frank Occomore
W.C. Ostic 
Harry Pulham


 




 


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