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Cenotaph record

Penetanguishene Cenotaph, Simcoe County, Ontario

War memorial on Main Street, Penetanguishene — 65 First and Second World War and Korean War names transcribed

3 photographs. Photographs of the monument and the separate Korean War stone, both fully transcribed.

The Penetang Ontario Cenotaph (War Memorial). The location of this memorial is on the Main St.

Name index · War

As transcribed by the original contributor.

First World War · 1914–1918 · 31 names

Transcribed names
Beauchamp, Isaac
Braden, Noble
Darling, C. T.
Desroches, Herman
Dubeau, Medore J.
Dusome, Carl
Dusome, George
Elliott, W. T.
Hames, Clifford
Harvey, Percy
Hirst, Charles
Kennedy, William
Longlade, Xavier
McFadden, A. T.
Morin, George
Morin, Wilfred
Norton, Cory
Osborne, Lyall
Peacock, John L.
Picotte, Napoleon
Richardson, F. J.
Richardson, L. T.
Rumble, Robert
Simmons, George
Sproule, Harold
Thompson, A. H.
Vaillancourt, J.
Vasseur [?], A. E.
Vasseur [?], Wilfred
Webster, A. E.
Wright, C. Heber

Second World War · 1939–1945 · 31 names

Transcribed names
Booth, Eric
Brasseur, Peter
Cadeau, Christopher
Clouthier, Joseph
Cloutier, William B.
Copeland, Donald
Curry, Hugh
Desjardins, Leonard
Desrochers, Aldie
Dion, Raymond
Dubeau, Robert
Dupuis, Raymond
Forget, Francis
Fraser, Norman
Garkoway [?], Patrick
Hopper, Garnet
Lacroix, Leo
Lacroix, Raymond
Lafreniere, William
Lecault [?], Lawrence
Leroux [?], Lionel
Maher, Philip
Marshall, Charles E.
McIntaggart [?], Russell
Noble, Ronald
Perrault, Willard
Robillard, Philbert
Rogers, Frank
Sawyer, Robert
Webster, Douglas
Yelland, James

Korean War · 1950–1953 · 3 names

Transcribed names
Monague, K. R.
Moreau, H. J.
Moreau, M. J.

65 names transcribed from two separate monuments: the main granite cross (62 names, WW1 and WW2, erected by the Women's Institute of Penetanguishene) and a separate low Korean War memorial stone nearby (3 names). Names marked [?] were hard to read with confidence on the worn stone.

Source & Citation

Penetanguishene Cenotaph (war memorial), Main Street, Penetanguishene, Simcoe County, Ontario. 65 First and Second World War and Korean War names transcribed, preserved in the Ancestors at Rest archive.

Last verified: 2026-07-06

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