Category: Memorials
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Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial in the Great War
The history of the Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial, and the battle of the many women (and a few men remaining), responsible for it’s creation. Enthusiasm for the memorial “washed out” by the end of 1920 with financial concerns and a plan to erect a more “appropriate” memorial in St. John’s. 1920 Women’s Mass Meeting 8 April…
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Canadian Corps Artillery Memorial in the Great War
The Canadian Corps Artillery Memorial also known as the Canadian Artillery Memorial. During the Battle of Vimy Ridge, the following units represented the Canadian Corps Artillery – Canadian Field Artillery, Royal Field Artillery, Canadian Garrison Artillery, Royal Garrison Artillery and South African Heavy Artillery. Thélus Corner References to THELUS CORNER in Canadian War Diaries begins…
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Canadian Battlefield Memorials in the Great War
At the end of the Great War, an IWGC committee awarded Canada eight battle sites — three in Belgium and five in France — on which to construct memorials. In the summer of 1922, the Canadian Battlefields Memorial Commission selected Vimy Ridge as the only site for Walter Allward’s winning memorial. The other battle sites,…
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St. Julien Canadian Memorial in the Great War
The Brooding Soldier Monument Unlike the Vimy Memorial, the St Julien Canadian Memorial designed by an architect serving in the Canadian Expeditionary Force during the Great War. However, Frederick Chapman Clemesha slightly wounded serving with the 46th Battalion, South Saskatchewan Regiment in 1918. Then, Clemesha returned to his Regina architectural practice for a short time…
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Canadian National Vimy Memorial of the Great War
Construction The construction of Canadian National Vimy Memorial began in 1925. Completed just after the intended unveiling of 1 July 1936. 15,000 tonnes of concrete, hundreds of tons of steel, and 6,000 tonnes of specially selected limestone from Croatia were used. Walter S. Allward designed the most magnificent war memorial in the world. Described by…