GREAT WAR COMMEMORATION DINNER AND CONCERT JULY 26

A dinner and cabaret-style concert commemorating the beginning of the Great War (1914-1918) will be presented by the South Dumfries Historical Society on Saturday, July 26th.

The event will be held at the St. George Memorial Hall at 34 Main St. S. in downtown St. George.

A buffet-style roast beef dinner will be served at 6 p.m.

Dinner will include a presentation by Expositor journalist Vincent Ball, who will read excerpts from his First World War-themed play entitled “Doing Our Bit.”

The cabaret-style concert featuring First World War-era music will follow at 7:30 p.m.

Singer Alix Kingston will perform songs from the era, provide historical context and lead some sing-alongs (lyrics provided).

Tickets for dinner and concert are $20 each, with seating limited to 50.

 

Tickets for the concert only are $10 each - and there is much more room upstairs.

Tickets are available from any South Dumfries Historical Society board member, by calling Deb Andre at 519-448-1889, or at the museum at 36 Main St. S. in St. George.

 

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·         THE ST.GEORGE and COMMUNITY MEMORIAL HALL

“This building was presented in memory of Salem Griswold Kitchen by his wife and was remodeled by the citizens as a Memorial to the Soldiers who fought the the Great War'

On the 20th day of August 1925 both the Memorial Plaque and the Hall where unveiled and dedicated by His Hon. Harry Cockshutt, Lieut-Governor of Ontario (1921-1927).

This makes the St.George and Community Memorial Hall the oldest Memorial to the soldiers of the Great War (WW1) in the Brant County and Brantford areas.

It was followed the next year (1926) by the St.George Memorial Park and Cenotaph then the Paris Cenotaph in 1929 and then the Brant War Memorial in 1933.

So it is rather fitting that the first event in our area of Remembrance to mark the start of the First World War is being held in the areas first memorial.

Those from St.George, South Dumfries and Surrounding Area Who Gave
The Supreme Sacrifice in WWI 1914-1918:

Armstrong, Walter 7/4/1919 age 22

Beattie, Harold 5/4/1917 age 21

Fields, Cecil 2/9/1918 age 20

Johns, Edward

Kenny, James

Murphy, John 10/08/1918 age 21

McKenzie, Stewart

Patten, Edgar 26/10/1917 Passchendaele age 26

Patten, Bertram MM 9/11/1917 age 25

Reinhard, Howard 8/8/1918 age 21

Ryan, William

Sass, Rudolph 22/11/1916 age 21

Sickler, Pte

Tolhurst, Freeman MM 9/8/1918 age 25

Tucker, Gordon 27/9/1918 age 21

Willits, John 3/5/1917 age 37

Wilson, Henry

Woods, John