Cenotaph record
Cookstown Cenotaph, Simcoe County, Ontario
War memorial in Cookstown, Ontario — 30 First World War names transcribed with month and place of death
1 photograph. Photograph of the monument with the contributor's transcription of the WW1 names panel.
The Cookstown Ontario Cenotaph (War Memorial) was erected after the Great War (World War One) and updated after World War Two and Korea.
Name index · Fell at
As transcribed by the original contributor.
| Fell at | ||
|---|---|---|
| Arnold, Alvin | d. Oct 1916 | Somme |
| Baker, Jno | d. May 1917 | Lens |
| Bassingthwaite, H | d. Sep 1917 | Lens |
| Burns, Wm | d. ??? 1917 | Fresnoy |
| Coleman, Wm R | d. Sept 1916 | Somme |
| Copeland, Geo | d. Sept 1916 | Courcelette |
| Rainey, Hilliard | d. Oct 1916 | |
| Chantler, Clarence | d. Oct 1916 | |
| Corrett, Lorne | d. Sept 1918 | Arras |
| Draper, Saml | d. Aug 1918 | Amiens |
| Duff, Calvin F W | d. Aug 1918 | Amiens |
| Duff, Clark | d. Oct 1916 | Courcelette |
| Dunhaw, Wellington | d. Sept 1916 | Somme |
| Fraser, Wm | d. Sept 1916 | Somme |
| Griggs, Alf | d. Dec 1917 | France |
| Hill, Wm | d. Dec 1916 | Camp Borden |
| Play, Harry | d. Sept 1916 | |
| Lowrie, Esten | d. Dec 1918 | France |
| McMaster, Elmer | d. Aug 1918 | France |
| Moir, Wm J | d. June 1916 | Ypres |
| Neilly, Earl | d. June 1917 | Fresnoy |
| Nevils, Gordon | d. July 1918 | France |
| Gooch, Alex | d. Aug 1918 | |
| Perneigie, W J | d. Sept 1917 | Somme |
| Prince, Albert | d. May 1917 | Fresnoy |
| Rankin, Frank | d. April 1917 | Vimy |
| Smith, Archi | d. Oct 1917 | Passchendalle |
| Sutherland, Jas | d. Apl 1917 | Vimy |
| Taggart, Ed | d. Sept 1918 | Arras |
| Thomas, Walter | d. Apr 1917 | Vimy |
Names transcribed from the monument by the original Ancestors at Rest contributor, each with the month and place of death as inscribed. "???" marks a month the contributor could not read. Individual names were extracted into the searchable index below.
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Source & Citation
Cookstown Cenotaph (war memorial), Cookstown, Simcoe County, Ontario. 30 First World War names transcribed with month and place of death, preserved in the Ancestors at Rest archive.
Last verified: 2026-07-06