Vars War Memorial

Vars, Ontario Located on main intersection in Vars some 35 km east of downtown Ottawa. Constructed in 1931 in memory of Great and Second World War Veterans by a local Women's Institute. Names on Monument: 1914-1918 1939-1945 1950-1953 Matthew Barkley Clayton Walsh   Wesley Simpson Stanley Hill   Robert McElroy     Charlie Ward     Earnest Bonsall     Warren Dunning     Frank Cormack     Roy Brownlee     Fred Buckland     Arthur Buckland

Veteran Information

1914-19

Private Matthew Barkley, 246388, 2nd Battalion, Eastern Ontario Regiment - France 29 March 1918
Private Wesley Adam Simpson, 246804, 38th Battalion, Eastern Ontario Regiment, France, 28 May 1918
Sapper Robert McElroy, 1043004, 8th Battalion, Canadian Railway Troops, Belgium, 22 April 1918
Sapper Charles Ward, 1043003, 7th Battalion, Canadian Railway Troops, Belgium 7 August 1917
Private Ernest Lytton Bonsall, 246565, 2nd Battalion, Eastern Ontario Regiment - France 29 Mar 1918
Private Warren Edward Dunning, 77585, 16th Battalion, Manitoba Regiment, France 20 May 1915
Lance Corporal Frank Lyle Cormack, 117206, 2nd Canadian Mounted Rifles, France, 28 August 1918
Private Roy Brownlee, 455063, 2n Battalion Eastern Ontario Regiment, UK, 10 Sept. 1916
Private Frederick George Buckland, 788554, 3rd Battalion, Central Ontario Regiment, France 3 May 1917
Private William Arthur Buckland, 410043, 38th Battalion, Eastern Ontario Regiment, Belgium, 30 Oct. 1917

1939-45

Pilot Officer William Clayton Walsh, J/18156, 194 Squadron, RAF, India 27 August 1943
Corporal William Stanley Hill, C33980, 4th Princess louise Dragoon Guards, Italy 1 September 1944