VIDEO: 25th Annual Mallorytown Legion Remembrance Road Ceremony held on Friday in Front of Yonge

Mallorytown – The Mallorytown Legion Branch #484 held its annual Remembrance Road Ceremony on Friday, November 8th along County Road 5 at County Road 2 in Front of Yonge.

Residents, dignitaries and Front of Yonge Elementary School children were on hand for Friday morning’s ceremony.

In its 25th year, it remembers the 19 fallen area servicemen from World War 1 to the Afghanistan War.

Video news story below:

Words on the Remembrance Road Plaque:

The grove of red maple trees marks the southern entrance to a special memorial roadway which honours the members of the community who lost their lives for us during the two World Wars and the Afghanistan Conflict. Running north from Mallorytown to a similar memorial site in Athens, this roadway was named by local schoolchildren.

It has been officially designated by the Townships of Front of Yonge and Athens and by the United Counties of Leeds & Grenville as the “Remembrance Road.”

Each of these young men is commemorated with his own tree and cross. These symbolize the ideals which they fought so hard to protect a secure future for their families and friends and for their way of life.

Though they may have died far from home amongst the snows of Norway or in the dust of Sicily, their memory will live here forever in the hearts of grateful Township residents for whom, it can be truly said, “They made the Ultimate Sacrifice.”

Lest We Forget

The Nineteen Servicemen

World War 1 – 1914-1918

Frank Bennett
Morton Hodge
R.I. McGibon
Fred Cook
George W. Mallory
Fred Salter

World War 2 – 1939-1945

Jack Buell
Don Gardiner
Morris Lambert
Charles Massey Jr.
William Mckee
Wm L. N. Simpson
Irvin Donovan
George Howard
Hugh Lynch
Douglas Moulton
Donald Running
Jack Tennet

Afghanistan Conflict – 2006

Randy Payne