Honouring Our Local Veterans
About
We are committed to teaching our community, especially future generations, about the incredible contributions and the role of many Canadians (including Billy Bishop) who sacrificed and served to preserve our freedom. It is our goal to help people remember, respect, and honor the sacrifices that have been made by our military.
Each year the Museum pays tribute to a number of Owen Sound and Grey & Bruce County Veterans. Their biographic information is on display throughout Grey and Bruce County. In the summer of 2024, these plaques will be returned to the veterans or their families during a ceremony at the Billy Bishop Museum.
2023's Honouring Our Local Veterans ceremony was broadcasted LIVE on Rogers TV Grey County on Sunday, October 29rd from The Royal Canadian Legion Branch 6. Please feel free to share the video with you friends and family! Lest we forget.
If you are a Veteran or know a Veteran that you would like to be nominated for our Honouring Our Local Veterans Program, please print and complete a Veteran's Survey to submit to the museum.
2023 Honouring Our Local Veterans Ceremony
Video: The 23nd Annual Honouring Our Local Veterans Event as 9 local veterans are honoured. For Transcript open video in new tab
We are actively looking for Veterans to participate in our program!
If you have any question please don't hesitate to contact us today!
Photograph of 147th Battalion Kit Inspection at Market Square, Owen Sound Grey County Museum Collection 1968.061.082.
Honoring Our Local Veterans
Profiles by Year
2023's Honourees
Terry Bates
Alvin Cameron
William Cutting
Luella Denton
John Des Jardine
James Gale
John Garvey
Leonard Smith
Wallace Sprung
John Garvey bows his head as he receives a round of applause during the Honouring Our Local Veterans ceremony. Garvey was one of nine military veterans honoured Sunday at Branch 6, Royal Canadian Legion in Owen Sound as a part of the 23rd Honouring Our Local Veterans ceremony. Greg Cowan/The Sun Times
2022's Honourees
2018
Are you a local veteran? Take our survey and email it to info@billybishop.org today!
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Tree of Remembrance
2022
Busch, Dr. Lloyd Victor
Danard, Harold P.
Gibson, Lloyd Sinclair
Lumley, Barrett
MacKay, John G.
Mitchell, James T.
Richie, Wilson Alexander
Sprung, Wallace Charles
Witzke, Herb
2021
Anglin MD, Crawford S
Armstrong, Leslie
Cameron, S. George
Evans, Gordon
Morgan-Evans, Joan
Danard, Harold P
Dungey, Walter Norman
Gibson, Lloyd Sinclair
Gonneau, Eric
Horton, Phil
Horton, Ted
Lumley, Barrett
MacKay, John Gilbert
Mitchell, James T
Ritchie, Wilson Alexander
Sprung, Wallace Charles
Wark, Clarence
Witzke, Herbert
2020
Anglin M.D., Crawford Sydney
Armstrong, Curwood
Armstrong, Jack
Begin, Daniel
Brook, R
Cameron, S. George
Campbell, Hardie
Crowe, Walter
Danard, Harold P
Ferguson, John
Fyvie, Glen
Gibson, Lloyd Sinclair
Hamilton, H. J.
Long, Clarence
Lumley, Barrett
MacKay, John G
MacKenzie, Donald A
McCrillis, Maury
Ritchie, Wilson A
Sanderson, Robert Miles
Smith, John L
Sprung, Wallace
Warrilow, Frances
Warrilow, John
Wise, Gary
Witzke, Herb
Van Os, Jack William
Wark, Clarence