Historic Sites of Manitoba: Morden / RM of Stanley War Memorial (Stephen Street, Morden)

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This war memorial, designed by Morden residents Stuart Scott and A. G. Selley, was erected in 1921 by the Town of Morden and the Rural Municipality of Stanley at a cost of $8,000. Originally dedicated in the memory of First World War veterans, the names of Second World War casualties were added in October 1947 and Korean War veterans were added later. Three names, identified during later research, were added in a ceremony on 25 September 2014.

Early view of the Morden War Memorial (no date) Source: Gordon Goldsborough, 2017-0011 Morden War Memorial (September 2014) Source: Darryl Toews Morden War Memorial (August 2018) Source: George Penner Site Coordinates (lat/long): N49.18982, W98.10459 denoted by symbol on the map above

First World War

Name	Occupation	Service	Rank	Birth Date	Death Date
Arthur Reginald Bailey	Farmer	184th Battalion, Canadian Infantry	Private	1891	24 November 1921
Gavin Bell	Labourer	27th Battalion, Canadian Infantry	Private	1880	27 August 1918
David Scott Borthwick [Law Society, Next of Kin]	Law Student	1st Canadian Mounted Rifles	Lieutenant	28 January 1891	2 June 1916
Emerson Brown	Barber	Lord Strathcona’s Horse	Private	1893	4 April 1918
Herbert Edgar Bunnett	Farmer	28th Battalion, Canadian Infantry	Private	1887	6 November 1917
Reginald Card	Labourer	1st Canadian Mounted Rifles	Private	1890	15 September 1916
Franklin Erwin Cowan	Student	4th Company, Canadian Machine Gun Corps	Private	1896	9 November 1917
Douglas Arthur Cram [Kelvin, Next of Kin, Westminster]	Chauffeur	43rd Battalion, Canadian Infantry	Private	1896	8 November 1916
William Howard Cram [Next of Kin, Westminster]	Clerk	16th Battalion, Canadian Infantry	Private	1888	26 February 1917
Elmer John Dickinson MC	Physician	Canadian Army Medical Corps	Captain	1887	4 February 1924
James Dudgeon	Farmer	27th Battalion, Canadian Infantry	Private	1896	3 May 1917
James Herbert Forster	Electrical Engineer	1st Canadian Mounted Rifles	Captain	1882	15 October 1916
Marshall Bidwell Forster	Civil Engineer	8th Battalion, Canadian Infantry	Sergeant	1890	14 June 1916
James McConnell Fraser	Driver	20th Battalion, Canadian Infantry	Lance Corporal	1891	10 October 1918
Edward Baker Godfrey	Farmer	8th Battalion, Canadian Infantry	Private	1875	27 July 1917
John William Hamilton	Stenographer	Canadian Corps Cavalry Regiment	Private	1894	30 September 1916
Elis Helgason	Farmer	8th Battalion, Canadian Infantry	Private	1895	27 September 1918
John Melville Hewitt	Clerk	44th Battalion, Canadian Infantry	Private	1897	14 June 1919
Oliver Benjamin Holo	Farmer	5th Battalion, Canadian Infantry	Private	1871	15 September 1917
James Henry Howell	Farmer	Lord Strathcona’s Horse	Private	1889	8 April 1920
Sveinn Jonason	Farmer	78th Battalion, Canadian Infantry	Private	1881	30 March 1918
Lawrence Edward Keir	Electrician	Canadian Motor Machine Gun Brigade	Private	1896	24 March 1918
Orval Forrest Langtry	Farmer	78th Battalion, Canadian Infantry	Private	1897	21 August 1917
Victor John Longney	Farmer	43rd Battalion, Canadian Infantry	Private	1892	21 August 1918
Charles Coutts Masson	Farmer	44th Battalion, Canadian Infantry	Private	1899	28 September 1918
Ervine Whitby McClain	Clerk	8th Battalion, Canadian Infantry	Private	1895	28 September 1918
Robert Herbert McGirr [Next of Kin, Westminster]	Drug Clerk	8th Battalion, Canadian Infantry	Private	13 February 1894	23 August 1917
Manuel Lawrence Sydney Mckone	Clerk	27th Battalion, Canadian Infantry	Private	1897	3 December 1993 [1]
Donald Robert McNaughton	Commercial Traveller	26th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, British Army	Private	1892	19 June 1917
John Allan McRae	Civil Engineer	184th Battalion, Canadian Infantry	Sergeant	1873	2 August 1926
Joseph Nicklin	Labourer	78th Battalion, Canadian Infantry	Private	1894	9 April 1917
Walter Burritt O’Brien	Clerk	61st Battalion, Canadian Infantry	Private	1896	25 May 1916
Joseph Osborne	Blacksmith	31st Battalion, Canadian Infantry	Private	1879	6 June 1916
George Joshua Palmer [St. Giles]	Teamster	8th Battalion, Canadian Infantry	Private	1891	29 April 1917
Hugh Daniel Parker [Next of Kin, St. Johns]	Student	27th Battalion, Canadian Infantry	Private	1895	15 September 1916
John Leopold Parry	Farmer	5th Battalion, Canadian Infantry	Private	1889	6 June 1916
Henry Alexander Doyne Pigott	Student	12th Company, Canadian Machine Gun Corps	Private	1897	14 November 1917
John Robb	Fireman	27th Battalion, Canadian Infantry	Private	27 September 1888	10 August 1916
George Arthur Simmons	Farmer	Lord Strathcona’s Horse	Private	1896	26 July 1915
John McPherson Smith	Mechanist	1st Pioneer Battalion, Canadian Pioneers	Private	1886	13 June 1916
George Frederick Tate	Farmer	19th Battalion, Canadian Infantry	Private	1889	21 November 1917
Sydney Robert Thorington	Farmer	27th Battalion, Canadian Infantry	Private	23 July 1878	3 May 1917
Charles Philip Uhrich [Law Society, Manitoba College, Winkler]	Solicitor-at-Law	28th Squadron, 14th Wing, Royal Air Force	Lieutenant	1893	24 June 1918
Clifford H. E. Weir	Clerk	Spruce Squadron, US Army	Private	1894	13 December 1918
Thomas Henry Wilson	Farmer	1st Manitoba Regiment	Private	1890	8 October 1918
Walter Barron Wilton [Crystal City, Next of Kin, Pharmacy, Portage]	Commission Merchant	27th Battalion, Canadian Infantry	Lieutenant	26 March 1877	21 August 1917
Thomas Veitch Wisdom MSM	Machinist	184th Battalion, Canadian Infantry	Private	24 January 1888	26 May 1920
Daniel B. Walkof	Carpenter	27th Battalion, Canadian Infantry	Corporal	1893	29 September 1916

Second World War

Name	Service	Rank	Birth Date	Death Date
William Biehl	78 Squadron, Royal Air Force	Aircraftsman	?	13 June 1944
John Samuel Cram [Civil Service]	Royal Canadian Air Force	Pilot Officer	8 September 1916	7 September 1943
Jacob Derksen	Royal Hamilton Light Infantry	Private	1923	8 March 1945
Oscar Anthony Dorval	Royal Canadian Armoured Corps	Trooper	1914	3 July 1943
Edward Endert	Queen’s Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps	Corporal	29 May 1920	14 August 1944
Gordon Enns	Westminster Regiment, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps	Private	1911	24 September 1944
Cornelius J. “Neil” Funk [Winkler]	US Army Air Force	Aviation Cadet	27 May 1916	8 March 1944
Bernard Bernhard Gross	Royal Winnipeg Rifles, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps	Private	1916	6 June 1944
Abram R. Hildebrand	162 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force	Flying Officer	1917	29 July 1944
John McNabb Kendall	226 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force	Flying Officer	1922	23 December 1943
Gordon Fourest Klassen	Royal Regiment of Canada, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps	Leading Gunner	1918	19 August 1942
George Cornelius Krahn	Royal Canadian Air Force	Flying Officer	1920	13 June 1944
William Law	Queenʼs Own Cameron Highlanders of Canada, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps	Private	1913	25 April 1943
David Earl Kitchener Lewis	Royal Canadian Air Force	Aircraftsman	1915	19 April 1945
James Lewis	40 Squadron, Royal Air Force	Aircraftsman 2nd Class	?	14 April 1940
Leonard Victor Longney	Princess Patriciaʼs Canadian Light Infantry, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps	Private	1923	13 June 1944
Donald Alexander Lovett	Essex Scottish Regiment, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps	Sergeant	15 March 1924	13 August 1944
Norman Andrew Lumgair	408 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force	Pilot Officer	1922	15 March 1944
Allan David Monaghan	57 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force	Flight Sergeant	1920	14 May 1943
Herbert Oddy	Princess Patriciaʼs Canadian Light Infantry, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps	Private	1921	27 July 1943
Reginald Frank Piercy	429 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force	Flight Sergeant	1910	25 February 1945
Clifford Clarence Reichert	408 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force	Pilot Officer	1919	22 June 1943
Walter Rohatynski	Royal Winnipeg Rifles, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps	Private	1919	4 July 1944
Joseph Moore Runner	155 Squadron, Royal Canadian AIr Force	Flight Sergeant	1917	8 March 1942
Herman Stephen Schellenberg	418 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force	Flying Officer	1915	21 November 1943
Samuel Silkey	Winnipeg Grenadiers, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps	Private	2 May 1905	19 December 1941
Robert Sirluck	76 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force	Sergeant	1922	1 March 1944
Walter Roy Schnell	Princess Louise Fusiliers, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps	Fusilier	1924	30 July 1944
Ralph Ernest Spencer	Royal Winnipeg Rifles, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps	Sergeant	1920	6 June 1944
William Joseph Steenson	Royal Canadian Air Force	Warrant Officer	1920	14 April 1944
Victor Allison Unrah	427 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force	Flight Sergeant	1914	18 July 1944
Henry Wiebe	Winnipeg Grenadiers, Royal Canadian Infantry Corps	Private	1921	21 December 1941
Jacob Henry Wolfe	Lincoln and Welland Regiment	Corporal	1921	8 March 1945
Isador Nicholas Yudell	104 Squadron, Royal Canadian Air Force	Warrant Officer	1916	6 January 1943

Sources:

For the names of First World War casualities from Manitoba who do not appear on any physical monument in the province, see the Manitoba Historical Society War Memorial. If you know of a name that is omitted from this list, please contact the MHS War Memorial Researcher Darryl Toews (darryl@mhs.mb.ca).

Soldiers of the First World War - Canadian Expeditionary Force, Library and Archives Canada.

Canadian Virtual War Memorial, Veterans Affairs Canada.

Financial support for research reported on this page was provided by the Manitoba Heritage Grants Program (2015-2016).

1. McKone was reported wounded by the Winnipeg Tribune (1 May 1917 and 5 May 1917) in articles about 20 wounded Winnipeg soldiers but he was mistakenly reported to have been killed in August 1916. (A man named J. M. A. McKone was killed in August 1916.) Sydney McKone died in 1993 (obituary in Winnipeg Free Press, 6 December 1993) and was reported in the Brandon Sun (9 April 1987) and Winnipeg Free Press (9 April 1987) as having returned to the Vimy battlefield. Born in Morden, he moved to Winnipeg before the First World War.

“Legion social held on Wednesday popular,” The Morden Times, 29 October 1947, page 1.

“District war dead are honored at Remembrance Day services,” The Morden Times, 12 November 1947, page 1.

We thank Alex Billings, Les Allison, and George Penner for providing additional information used here.

This page was prepared by Darryl Toews and Gordon Goldsborough.

Page revised: 30 May 2023

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