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1947 · Woodlawn Cemetery
The stone: in Woodlawn Cemetery, near the center of the section south of U.S. 6, stands the town's Second World War memorial, recorded in the Historical Marker Database (photographed 21 July 2014) with its inscription read whole: "In Memory of the Valiant Sons, and Daughters, of This Area, Who Served Their Country in the Armed Services in World War II." Below: "Erected 1947 by Mothers of World War II, Walkerton Unit 140." Two things about it are the record's own. First, it honors service, not death — sons and daughters who served — so it is not a death roll and settles nothing in the article above; the town's mothers built to the whole of the town's service, and the file follows them in that. Second, it proves the organizational fact the death-roll search could not: Walkerton in 1947 had a chartered unit, No. 140, of the Mothers of World War II, with the strength to quarry, letter, and set a cemetery stone two years after the war — the home front of this town, incorporated in grief and gratitude while the war's own paper record was still being filed in Washington. What names, if any, the stone or its setting carries beyond the inscription transcribed does not stand in any source read; an in-person reading of the memorial and its plot is the named settler, in the closing register, and the memorials article below takes up the town's whole commemorative ground at once.
Sources:
- Historical Marker Database, "Walkerton World War II Memorial" (HMdb m=75605) — inscription, erector, date, and cemetery location as recorded, photographed 21 July 2014.