War Memorials Outside of the UK

Discussion in 'War Cemeteries & War Memorial Research' started by von Poop, Nov 13, 2012.

  1. Oldleg

    Oldleg Well-Known Member

    Beautiful piece of artwork.
     
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  2. Tony56

    Tony56 Member Patron

    Probably not what you had in mind, but perhaps of interest:
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    Adelaide, South Australia

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    Goolwa, South Australia
     
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  3. TIRDAD

    TIRDAD Member

    Cemetery

    Cemetery

    I can take photos from Graveyard and cemetry.

    But IDK how to do?

    I have some photos from Polish Cemetry.

    If you want, I can Upload them.
     
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  4. Deacs

    Deacs Well i am from Cumbria.

    Great offer TIRDAD I would think some members will take you up on the offer.

    Regards Mike.
     
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  5. CL1

    CL1 116th LAA and 92nd (Loyals) LAA,Royal Artillery

    Tirdad a very kind offer
    If you start another thread stating you are willing to take photos im sure forum members will be grateful
     
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  6. TIRDAD

    TIRDAD Member

    Thanks for your Words.

    And where should i start this topic?
     
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  7. Deacs

    Deacs Well i am from Cumbria.

    No problem Tirdad thanks for trying and if you do get a photo great cheers.

    But as Clive says maybe start another thread and you will get this offer seen better.

    War Grave Photographs

    Mike.
     
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  8. canuck

    canuck Closed Account

    Sunday, May 21, 1939

    King George VI unveils the National War Memorial in Ottawa

    The King described the Memorial as symbolizing a great truth: "Without freedom there can be no enduring peace, and without peace no enduring freedom."

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  9. SteveDee

    SteveDee Well-Known Member

    Skansens Bataljon - Bergen, Norway

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  10. bamboo43

    bamboo43 Very Senior Member

    Banff War Memorial, Alberta Canada. This was photographed from my daughters phone during our recent holiday. Banff is a beautiful little town and would be somewhere I could live (although I preferred Jasper) if it was not so cold in the winter.

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  11. bamboo43

    bamboo43 Very Senior Member

    Not a memorial as such, but I was very impressed by the amount of Veterans Homes I came across during my trip. This one was on Vancouver Island in the hamlet of Ucluelet:

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  12. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    Raritan, New Jersey, USA

    Called in here a few weeks ago to see the John Basilone Memorial.
    We also visited his grave in Arlington Cemetery.
     

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  13. ecalpald

    ecalpald Chick LaPlace

    The following info has been extracted from Wikipedia, address:

    Central Memorial Park - Wikipedia

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    The sculptor was Louis Philippe Hébert, who also did the Indian family grouping in front of the Legislature in Quebec City. The death of an English soldier in Calgary led to the creation of the South African War Memorial. Quebec sculptor, Louis Phillipe Hébert, was visiting his cousins, the Miquelon family in Calgary, at the turn of the century when they came upon the body of a soldier in a ditch in the Killarney area. It seems he had died from lead poisoning and no one had known about his illness. Members of the Calgary-based Lord Strathcona Horse Regiment who had fought in the South African Boer War (1899 - 1902) took up a collection and efforts were made to trace his family in England. It was decided that the men who fought in the war should be commemorated and Hébert said, "I'll put up a statue taller than your trees." Further funds were raised and Hébert was commissioned to create a statue in 1911. It was unveiled in 1914.

    Standing on the steps of Sacred Heart Church, Hébert spotted Eneas McCormick, then in his early twenties, and thought he would make a good model for the statue. The bronze statue has him sitting astride what was rancher Pat Burns's own pony. The statue is one and a half times life size, and has been described as one of the four finest equestrian statues in the world. (R. L. Boyle was known for his contributions at Ypres, several years after the Second Boer War. Russell Lambert Boyle, was born on October 29, 1880. Although Colonel Boyle served in South Africa as a Sergeant, he is better known for his courageous exploits during the Second Battle of Ypres, where he led the 10th Battalion, CEF in its first action at Kitchener's Wood. He died of wounds on April 25, 1915.)

    The statue of R.L. Boyle is unusual in that his name is not inscribed on the monument. Rather than memorializing him personally, the statue is intended as a tribute to all Albertans who fought in the Second Boer War, and the dates 1899-1902 are inscribed on the pedestal.
     
  14. Tony56

    Tony56 Member Patron

    Strathalbyn, South Australia
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  15. Dave55

    Dave55 Atlanta, USA

    Doughboy memorial in Park Ridge, New Jersey with SMLE.
    Somebody made a booboo.


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  16. mhil

    mhil Member

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    Monument Hill 424 Altavilla Silentina 40.532084 15140650 (photo Martin Hilgers)

    Memorial remembers the combatants of the Battle of Hill 424 (Quota 424) which occurred around the town of Altavilla Silentina form 11-17 September 1943. US Units involved was the 36thInfantry Division of the 504thParachute Infantry Regiment of the 82ndAirborne Division. Hill 424 was a vital strategic point in September 1943 as it was the high ground along the Sele River which the German forces were using to try and split the US and British invasion forces as part of Operation Avalanche- the Salerno lands.

    Source: Monument Details
     
  17. mhil

    mhil Member

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    (Photo 27th July 2021 Martin Hilgers)

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    "At noon on 28th September 1943 1/6th Queen’s, led by Lieutenant Colonel Michael Forrester and with a squadron of 5 RTR, M Battery 3 RHA, an Anti-Tank Regt battery and an RE recce party under command, pushed through 1/7th Queen’s heading at high speed for their objective which was the important bridge at Scafati over the River Sarno. Their advance on a stormy day was so swift that A Company under Captain W L Johnson, with assistance from Italian partisans, outflanked the elements of the Herman Goering Division defending the bridge, killing or capturing them all and securing intact the bridge, which had been prepared for demolition."


    Location Scafati: https://goo.gl/maps/fXrfWVb12wDmUGFj8

    More info:

    Scafati Memorial
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    THE BRITISH ARMY IN NORTH AFRICA, SICILY, ITALY, THE BALKANS AND AUSTRIA 1942-1946
     

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  18. 8RB

    8RB Well-Known Member

  19. vitellino

    vitellino Senior Member

    Well, you live and learn. This particular band of partisans had lost no time in getting themselves organised in what was barely three weeks after the Italian armistice of 8 September! Elsewhere in Italy it took rather longer - a month or two was not unusual.

    I have just read in an Italian document that they actually liberated the town of the troublesome Germans before the arrival of the British troops!

    I can only assume that they were erstwhile members of the disbanded Italian army who had put their military skills to good use in the nick of time - after all, they would have been defunct after 28 September and they had to qualify for the partisans' pension!

    Yours sarcasitically,

    Vitellino

    I should say that there are several monuments in Umbria and Marche to escaped Allied POWs who lost their lives fighting with the partisans. I am away from home at the moment and will post a few of these when I return.
     
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  20. Owen

    Owen -- --- -.. MOD

    Saw this one today.

    Naantali, Finland.
     

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