Speaker: Building a Cenotaph

Name: Speaker: Building a Cenotaph
Start: 2025-10-22T19:00:00-04:00
Location: 178 McKellar St, Glencoe, ON, Canada, Ontario N0L 1M0

Glencoe & District Historical Society

Highlights

Wed, 22 Oct, 2025 at 07:00 pm

178 McKellar St, Glencoe, ON, Canada, Ontario N0L 1M0

Date & Location

Wed, 22 Oct, 2025 at 07:00 pm (EDT)

178 McKellar St, Ontario N0L 1M0

178 McKellar St, Southwest Middlesex, ON N0L 1M0, Canada, Glencoe

About the event

Speaker: Building a Cenotaph

Building a Cenotaph for the Fallen: Oct 22, 2025 at 7:00 p.m. Live presentation.

Dutton Dunwich has never had a cenotaph. Thirty-two First World War and fourteen Second World War sons and husbands died. One of the WWI fallen is Ellis Wellwood Sifton, a young fellow who fought at Vimy Ridge and was honoured with a Victoria Cross.

More details: https://glencoehistoricalsociety.ca/event/oct-22-2025-building-a-cenotaph-for-the-fallen/
This did not sit right with Blair Ferguson and he mustered a group to right this wrong. Blair and friends designed and raised the money to build a cenotaph worthy of the soldiers’ incredible deeds of heroism. It’s hard for us to imagine now how so many young fellows could be sent off to such terrible wars.