A community hall at Carroll, in the Municipality of Oakland-Wawanesa, was formerly a chapel at the No. 17 Service Flying Training School near Souris. Built around 1940, after the war it was moved to this site. It was dedicated on 18 June 1947 to local veterans of the Second World War. It hosted such social functions as dances, pot luck suppers, craft and art shows, and Christmas concerts.
A fieldstone monument in front of the hall was dedicated on 5 July 1981. A bell on top of the monument is from the former Carroll Consolidated School. Inside the hall is a bronze tablet containing the names of 35 local men who served in the military during the First World War, five of whom were killed. The tablet was prepared by the Devonshire Chapter of the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire and unveiled in August 1919 at a ceremony held at the Methodist church in Carroll.
Carroll School commemorative monument by the Memorial Hall (November 2013)
Source: Gordon Goldsborough
Carroll Honour Roll for First World War veterans (no date)
Source: Norma WillSite Coordinates (lat/long): N49.60779, W100.03206
denoted by symbol on the map above
Name
Occupation
Service
Rank
Birth Date
Death Date
William Herbert Bickerstaff
Farm Labourer
27th Battalion, Canadian Infantry
Private
20 September 1895
3 May 1917
Charles William East
[Brandon Armoury]Farmer
44th Battalion, Canadian Infantry
Private
31 July 1896
27 October 1917
James Smith Ord
Farm Labourer
1st Canadian Mounted Rifles
Private
24 December 1892
15 September 1916
Leslie Scott
Railway Section Foreman
43rd Battalion, Canadian Infantry
Private
15 March 1885
16 August 1918
Albert Walter Sopp
[Vimy Ridge]Farmer
44th Battalion, Canadian Infantry
Private
5 February 1894
6 June 1917
See also:
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Carroll Consolidated School No. 868 (Carroll, Municipality of Oakland-Wawanesa)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: Carroll Consolidated School No. 868 (Carroll, Municipality of Oakland-Wawanesa)
Historic Sites of Manitoba: No. 17 Service Flying Training School (Municipality of Souris-Glenwood)
“Carroll memorial for those who went overseas,” Brandon Daily Sun, 13 August 1919, page 1.
Carroll Centennial: 1881-1981, Looking Back by Carroll Centennial Committee, c1981, page 12.
We thank Norma Will for providing additional information used here.
This page was prepared by Gordon Goldsborough and Darryl Toews.
Page revised: 3 November 2024
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