Etc. --Houghton War Memorial at Fairground
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Houghton War Memorial

Houghton War Memorial [GPS:38.972/39.586] in front of Houghton Township Hall (built in 1891) in the community of Fairground at 699 Norfolk County Road 28, immediately north Fairground Road, in historic Houghton Township, Norfolk County, Ontario. 
Photographed 15 Jul 2011 by John Cardiff 
-- see photo enlargement
-- see scan of 16 Sep 1920 Simcoe Reformer page 1 article re original dedication
-- also see: an close-up aerial view screen capture of this memorial from Google Earth.
The complete text on all the four sides of this war memorial stone:
 
Erected by
the residents of
Houghton
in the year 1920
Lewis A. Lockman
Frank Brinn
William Frost
Oscar Silverthorne
Cornelius Bocardus
Ernest W. Smith
Arthur West
Lewis E. West
William J. West
Harold V. Nethercott
Cecil Franklin
Albert L. Larsson
Fallen soldiers of
the Township of
Houghton
World War 2
Robert C. Pegg
Roger DeVos
John A. Leckie
Percival Haney
 

 
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