Gander War Memorial
Municipality/Province: Gander, NL
Memorial number: 10003-013
Type: granite statue, shaft and base
Address: Airport Boulevard & Lindberg Road
GPS coordinates: Lat: 48.959112 Long: -54.615904
Submitted by: Walter Chummell; Hayward Clark
This memorial was originally erected in 1962. It was vandalized in 1963 or 1964 and the present monument was erected in 1964 or 1965 using parts of the original memorial. At that time Korea was added and the plaques on the left and right were changed to read World War I 1914 - 1918 and World War II 1939 - 1945 respectively. The original monument stood at eighteen feet ten inches. It included an arch, a statue of “Winged Victory” that stood seven feet two inches, and a bronze Caribou on a three-foot pedestal. The arch contained the Army Crest with the Navy Crest, the Air Force Crest, the Torch and Newfoundland’s emblem flower and the Pitcher Plant crest. It was erected by Muir’s Marble Works of St. John’s with the statues being imported from Italy.
Inscription found on memorial
[centre/centre]
THEY SHALL GROW NOT
OLD AS WE WHO ARE LEFT
GROW OLD AGE SHALL
NOT WEARY THEM NOR THE
YEARS CONDEMN. AT THE
GOING DOWN OF THE SUN
AND IN THE MORNING
WE SHALL REMEMBER THEM
THEIR NAME LIVETH FOR EVERMORE
[base/base]
KOREAN CONFLICT
1950 - 1953
[left/gauche]
WORLD WAR I
1914 - 1918
[right/droit]
WORLD WAR II
1939 - 1945
Street view
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