Monday Monuments and Memorials – Lt Cyril McLellan Mowbray, St Paul’s Church, Halifax, NS

In Memorium, Cyril McLellan Mowbray, St Paul’s Church, Halifax

Each soldier tells a story.

A memorial plaque in St Paul’s Church, Grand Parade, Halifax, names three members of the Mowbray family: father, Lt Col John Arthur Clarke Mowbray; mother, Sadie McLellan Mowbray; and son, Cyril McLellan Mowbray.

Monday Monuments and Memorials – Captain Joseph Plimsoll Edwards, St Paul’s Church, Halifax

Plaque in memory of Joseph Plimsoll Edwards, St Paul’s Church, Halifax

Each soldier tells a story.

Joseph Plimsoll Edwards was born in Montreal on 30 September 1891, the fourth child (of nine) of Major Joseph Plimsoll Edwards and Emily Susan Crispo Edwards. His family moved to Nova Scotia when he was young. He graduated from the Royal Military College (Kingston) in 1912 and served with the Royal Canadian Engineers.

Monday Monuments and Memorials – Memorial Arch, St Paul’s Church, Halifax, NS

Memorial Arch leading from narthex to nave

Men listed by rank on left side of door

More privates listed on right side of door

Dedication over St Paul’s doorway

Halifax Explosion relic

St Paul’s Church stands on the south side of the Grand Parade in Halifax. Founded in 1750, it is the oldest surviving Protestant church in Canada. Entering from the narthex to the nave, you pass through the Memorial Arch, in memory of 91 men of the parish who died in WW1. The names are listed by rank. Above the arch is a piece of wreckage driven into the wall of the church in the Halifax Explosion on 6 Dec 1917.

St Paul’s and the Great War (for King and Country), an exhibition at the church in summer 2015, will “recall through photographs, sketches and original documentation and excerpts from texts and personal correspondence, the character and qualities of the young soldiers who joined the war effort – and that of their families and friends, and the clergy of St. Paul’s as well.”