JARVIS—The Jarvis Board of Trade Veterans Banners Committee is reaching out to current and past residents of Jarvis and area (Walpole) to obtain the names of veterans to honour in 2024.
If you have a relative or friend who served with any Canadian military organization, who was raised or is interred in the noted area, and who you think should be honoured through this program, we would like to hear from you. We require the veteran’s name, rank, where and when they served, and a picture that can be used for the banner (preferably head and shoulders). Please submit this information by March 31 at the latest via email to jarvisbdoftrade@gmail.com.
Since we started this project in 2019, we have honoured 100 local veterans from the Jarvis and Walpole area and those who were killed while training at the No. 1 Bombing and Gunnery School near Jarvis. Banners are sponsored by the Jarvis Board of Trade and Haldimand County. There is no cost to the veteran’s family.
Since the program started, banners have been created to honour the following veterans:
2019: Allan J. Anderson, George S. Anderson, Lloyd M. Anderson, Leslie Blight, Jack V. Cooke, Ernie Craddock, Jim Doughty, Ralph C. Fess, Arthur W. Genery, James Halcrow, Joseph A. Krauskopf, J. Bryce Linklater, Don Phibbs, Lea Porter, Lorne Porter, Melvin Porter, George Reu, Chester Rogers, George Sporbeck, Jonn W. Whitehead
2020: John F. Addison, Dave Banks, Gord Best, Mary (Buckley) Black, John H. Fleming, Harry Gowan, Joe Heastont, Gary Marshall, Arthur W. McKeen, Harry McKeen, George E. Miller, James E. Miller, Berkley Mitchell, Merrill Nie, Robert Otterman, Harry Reynolds, Wiliam M. Slaght, Albert M. Williamson, David Winstanley, Ron Winstanley
2021: Cecil Walter Beckerson, Joseph Chapman, John Hamilton Close, John W. Columbus, Andrew Doughty, Bernice Fess, Charles E. Harrop, Bruce A. Hill, John William Ledbetter, Joan (Marshall) McInnis, J. Stanley Mitchell, Clair Audrey Parkinson, William Ivan Parkinson, Billy Patterson, John Peresky, Thomas Oral Phibbs, Allan James Phillips, John William Phillips, William W. Roulston, George Troutbeck
2022: Alfred W. Barlow, Stewart B. East, W.D. Bradly, Earl Bray, John D. Carmichael, James T. Dunnett, Dr. Charles Robert Eaid, Charles Roy Eaid, Robert Rodger Eaid, Mary E. Eaid, R.T.H. Harris, Merris Hunsinger, Harry Leatherdale, Lloyd Walter Marr, W.A. Metcalfe, Charles E. (Ted) Oldham, George Parkinson, A.R. (Bert) Peacock, C.L. Strachan
2023: Jack F. Bradford, A.E. Brown, Edward Buckley, Stan Burditt, Cyril Carscadden, James G. Cassidy, Richard Cassidy Sr., Richard Cassidy, Walter H. Cassidy, Vincent Columbus, James R. Cumming, George B. Cumming, W.C. Evans, W.C. Holmes, Neal Hoover, W.E. Machell, R.M. Miller, William Smuck, Dick Van Ooyan, John B. Watt
The committee will be completing the second part of this project, which is to publish a book about this project that will include pictures of each veteran honoured.
We know it is a challenge to include all those who served, but our goal is to honour as many veterans from the Jarvis and Walpole area as possible. Your assistance will be greatly appreciated.
