Memorials and Honour Roles
 

I have recently come back from holidays in Tasmania and while there one particular memorial inspired me to grab the camera. In Australia memorials are to be found in most country towns they take on a variety of designs from a simple Obelisk with Honour role, Victory Arches, Cenotaph and the most graceful of all to me the Lone ANZAC. All statues are carved of cast in a similar form, during ANZAC day services the honour guard assume the same stance.

Memorials did not appear until about 10 years after WW1 with many I looked at being erected in the early 1930’s. Here is a question to forum members of different lands how do your countries remember the fallen?

The following photos were taken in Stanley Tasmania this statue is carved in white marble the detail of uniform is amazing, this statues eyes are so lifelike for a stone carving.

A question for the historians all these Lone ANZAC statues have a single tree stump behind their right leg, does this represent Lone Pine?

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Here's how Canada honours its fallen
http://www.forces.gc.ca/dhh/collecti...me_e.asp?cat=7
There are 4901 memorials listed.

Cenotaph, Truro Nova Scotia
 

Mark: Thank-you for your intrest in a subject so far from your home.
Clive: Thanks for posting that site.

After taking a quick peek at the Truro Cenotaph on the site that Clive posted, I see that the most recent additions have not been made.
Three members of the Canadian Forces who were killed in Afghanistan had their names placed on the Cenotaph at a rededication ceremony held on 26 NOV 07.
They are:
WO Frank Mellish
Sgt Darcy Tedford
and one of my former troops, and friend,
Cpl Chris Reid
I hope they are the last, but someone had the foresight to ensure there was plenty of blank space in that collum.
Mark, the Parade position adopted by both Cenotaphs (Tasmanian and Truro) is called "Rest on your arms, reversed". Recognized Commonwealth wide, if not globally, as the armed soldier taking a brief moment to pause, remember, and mourn before stepping off, back in to harms way.
Thanks again.

Cheers

War memorials in The Netherlands: www.oorlogsmonumenten.nl. More than 3000 are on record. They come in many shapes and forms, some of them include military vehicles.

Hanno

http://www.4en5mei.nl/mmbase/images/58644

Highway of Heros...
 

Apr 25, 2008 13:21 ET
Press Conference Announcing the Repatriation Memorial Drive and Rally and Unveiling of the Red Fridays Car
1000s of supporters of the troops get ready to drive the Highway of Heroes in honour of the fallen. Rallies to be held two cities demonstrating support for the troops and the military family

TORONTO, ONTARIO and TRENTON, ONTARIO--(Marketwire - April 25, 2008) -

ATTENTION NEWS/ASSIGNMENT/PHOTO EDITORS: MEDIA ADVISORY & PHOTO OP

On May 31, 2008, 1000 vehicles are expected to retrace the highway of heroes' trip when a fallen soldier is repatriated to Canada: 82 Red vehicles representing our fallen soldiers will be in a special memorial procession escorted by the OPP, Durham and Metro Toronto police on Highway of Heroes Highway 401 from Trenton to Downsview Park in Toronto. Overpasses expected to be filled with 1000s of supporters and spectators. Large rallies are expected in both cities. A press conference announcing the drive will be held on April 29 in both Toronto and in Trenton.




What: The Repatriation Memorial Drive and Rally (dubbed the Highway of
Heroes Run) May 31, 2008


Who: Red Fridays Foundation of Canada
Families of the fallen who will be driving the route to honor their
loved ones.
Mayor Williams (in Trenton)
Corporate sponsors
Brad McCabe Canadian Hearing Society
Chrysler Canada


Interviews will be available with Brian Muntz and Brandon Arnold RFFC,
Brad McCabe CHS, Karim Ashadali Scarsview, Larry Josie Poppy Truck, Trenton
Mayor Williams.


When: Tuesday, April 29, 2008
Toronto - 10:00 a.m.
Trenton - 2 p.m


Where: Toronto - Scarsview Chrysler, 951 Milner Ave.
Trenton - City Hall, 7 Crestwell Drive


Why: The following items of public information will be announced at this
conference:
- Event activities and times.
- Travel route
- Unveiling of the Red Fridays Car dedicated to our fallen and our troops





Photo opportunities: Ontario Military Vehicle Association a 1954 M37 Dodge Military Truck, the Poppy Truck, Red Fridays Memorial Car, Miata Canada Flag car.

Press kits available online www.redfridays.ca/media/rdr.php and at the press conferences.

Press kits include statements by Corporate Sponsors & family statements from the fallen.

For more information, please contact
Red Fridays Foundation of Canada
Brian Muntz
(416) 523-5479
Email: bmuntz@redfridays.ca
Website: www.redfridays.ca

Sometimes individual memorials erected by the families are just as moving. Here's an NZ one for a Son, Trooper Jordan, of the Canterbury Mounted Rifles, lost at "the Dardenelles", obviously an early epitaph as the term Dardenelles was soon replaced by Galipolli as reports of the campaign became better known at home.

This photo was sent to me by Barry Ciccone in Calgary. It was included with a bunch of photos of Carrufo, the small village in Italy where my son's girlfriends family is from. You can see from the names that a lot of family members were lost. It will be interesting when we are there for the wedding to check some of the other small villages nearby and see what they have for monuments.
Barry

Fry
 

I saw memorials to Serb/Croat/Bosnian soldiers in the Former Yugoslavia in '02-'03. I forget exactly where it was between Zgon and Sarajevo. Our road move halted for a break and I noticed a small fenced area with a black polished stone. After crossing the street, I realized it was a rectangular wall with etched faces, names and dates. New style methods. Seemed like those were men from that town who were killed in the war.

There was a partisan's memorial in Drvar. Ed Storey mentioned that the WWII tank memorials in parts of Croatia were proportional to those towns' contribution of men to the partisan movement.

Rusty, I have just seen this post and as I see no-one has answered your question in 12 years, here goes.

The post behind the leg of the soldier on the cenotaph is there to support the weight of the soldier above his knees. Too many early ones were subject to cracking in the legs and as a result the soldier would fall down just leaving his legs in place. The stump of the tree is just to add strength to the whole structure. I do not think that it has a relation to Lone Pine.

We have recently erected a brand new WWI cenotaph at Paynesville Vic. and the granite plaques were unveiled this Anzac Day, 2017. I was President of Paynesville RSL when we decided to erect a new cenotaph. The whole cenotaph is a copy of the Fairfield/Alphington Vic. cenotaph with the soldier moulded directly off theirs. I spent many hours, with the help of others, to ensure that no names were missed on the plaques. I am very proud of the finished cenotaph and give great thanks to the Paynesville RSL members for the work undertaken to complete it.

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(No it is not leaning, it was my poor photography.)

Regards Rick