It’s Remembrance Day and we are taking time to remember Effie Bolster – and all veterans.
Cobourg’s cenotaph was first unveiled in Victoria Park on November 11th, 1924 by Bolster, a nurse who had served overseas in the First World War.
The cenotaph was rebuilt in 1990 and honours veterans of both World Wars, the Korean War and the Merchant Navy.
In Normandy, France, there’s a stone wall the Canadian soldiers marched past in the summer of 1944. To this day the names etched in are areadable, including the name ‘A.B. SPICER PORT HOPE, ONT’.
Spicer served in Normandy after D-Day; his name also appears in the Port Hope Evening Guide’s wartime lists of the wounded.
Today, Legion branch 133 will lead the Remembrance Day ceremony at the Cenotaph. It begins with a parade from the Legion building on Orr Street to Victoria Park beginning at 10 a.m.
The parade route ends at the Cenotaph where the Remembrance Day ceremony begins at 10:30.