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Date: 02 August 2000

Location: Royal Canadian Legion Branch 105 located on 46th Street between 53rd and 54th Avenues.

Description: Restored Sherman Tank Serial Number T212123, with a grey granite memorial stone measuring 72 inches by 30 inches displayed font and center of the monument. Three concrete steps lead up to the front of the display flanked on either side by replicated "tank trap" pyramids.

 

The right pyramid has an engraved grey granite stone reading:

DEDICATED BY BRANCH 105 OLDS, ALBERTA
ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION
11 NOVEMBER 1992

The left pyramid reads:

SHERMAN TANK IN MEMORY OF ALL THOSE WHO SERVED OUR COUNTRY WW1, WW2, KOREA

Plaque inscription:

THEY SHALL NOT GROW OLD

ALSHEAD, H.
AHLWARDT, A.D.
ALLISON, K.H.
ANDERSON, F.
BRIEGEL, J.
CANN, J.
CLARK, M.
CONRAD, N.L.
COUTTS, A.G.
CROMBIE, R.J.
CUTHBERT, G.
DAVIDSON, E.W.
DREW, A.
ELDER, J.W.
ERHART, G.
GRIMES, R.
GWARTNEY, C.
HARRISON, A.J.
HARTMAN, C.L.
KEOWN, L.
LINK, R.W.
MACINTYRE, H.V.
MORPHY, V.
MURRAY, J.D.
PAASCH, N.
PECK, W.
PECKHAM, J.
REIBER, D.
REID, G.
RENDEL, W.
ROGERS, R.
RUNHAM, T.
SHANKS, A.B.
SMITH, T.
STIRTON, D.
STRINGER, H.L.
ULRY, A.D.
ULRY, L.A.
WALLACE, D.
WARE, F.
WIGHAM, E.A.
WILKENSON, I.
WILLIAMS, J.E.
WILLSIE, G.

WE WILL REMEMBER THEM

 

Comments: This armoured monument is a well maintained "look and touch" memorial. There is a steel step walkway behind the tank which allows visitors to view the top of the Sherman tank and appreciate the enormity of these huge steel war machines.



© 2001 Donald Norrie

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