Mémorial national de Terre-Neuve
Ville/Province : St. John's, NL
Numéro du monument : 10006-005
Type : Monument
Adresse : 85, rue Water
Coordonnées GPS : Lat: 47.5674256 Long: -52.7033841
Soumis par : John Cooper
Bien qu'il soit financé à l'échelle locale, le Mémorial national de Terre-Neuve, situé à St. John's, représente les exploits de guerre des Terre-Neuviens, qui ne faisaient pas partie de la Confédération à l'époque des guerres mondiales. Sa construction est financée en partie par une levée de fonds de la Great War Veterans’ Association. Le maintien du mémorial relève de la responsabilité du gouvernement de Terre-Neuve-et-Labrador.
Le Mémorial national se dresse sur la rue principale, à St. John's, d'où l'on peut voir, à l'arrière-plan, le célèbre vieux port. II évoque tous les exploits de guerre, sur terre et sur mer, des Terre-Neuviens. Le Royal Newfoundland Regiment, la Royal Naval Reserve, la Mercantile Marine et le Forestry Corps sont chacun représentés par une figure en bronze, de taille humaine. Au-dessus, sur un piédestal de granit, une figure de femme symbolisant la liberté arbore une torche. Le Mémorial est aménagé à l'intérieur d'une muraille semi-circulaire en granit. On y accède par de larges gradins de pierre, flanqués d'urnes remplies de fleurs. Le Monument est également entouré de beaux arbres feuillus.
Terre-Neuve, la plus ancienne des colonies britanniques, envoya 8 500 soldats et marins outre-mer pendant la Première Guerre mondiale. Sur une population de moins de 250 000, plus de 1 500 donnèrent leur vie. Le Mémorial fut dévoilé par le feld-maréchal Haig, à la date anniversaire de l'illustre bataille de Beaumont-Hamel à laquelle les Terre-Neuviens participèrent au cours de la Première Guerre mondiale. Tous les ans, le 1er juillet, depuis son entrée dans la Confédération en 1949 à titre de dixième province, non seulement Terre-Neuve célèbre-t-elle la fête du Canada, mais rappelle aussi le souvenir de Beaumont-Hamel.
Inscription sur le mémorial
[front/devant]
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IN PERPETUAL REMEMBRANCE OF THE MEN
AND WOMEN OF THE CANADIAN FORCES, AND
OTHER CANADIANS, WHO SERVED AND SACRIFICED
THEIR LIVES AS PART OF THE INTERNATIONAL EFFORTS TO
PROTECT THE RIGHTS AND FREEDOM OF HUMANITY,
AND TO BRING SECURITY AND STABILITY TO THE PEOPLE
OF AFGHANISTAN.
THIS MEMORIAL IS ERECTED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF
NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR, IN COOPERATION WITH
THE NEWFOUNDLAND/LABRADOR COMMAND OF THE
ROYAL CANDIAN LEGION AND THE PROVINICAL
MILITARY FAMILY RESOURCE CENTRES, AND WAS
UNVEILED BY THE HONOURABLE DANNY WILLIAMS
Q.C., PREMIER OF NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR,
IN THE YEAR 2008 A.D. DURING THE REIGN OF
HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH II.
AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN
AND IN THE MORNING
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.
AFGHANISTAN
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TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN PERPETUAL
REMEMBRANCE OF MEMBERS OF THE ROYAL
CANADIAN NAVY, ROYAL CANADIAN ARMY,
ROYAL CANADIAN AIR FORCE, AND OTHER UNITED
NATIONS FORCES, WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN
THE CAUSE OF FREEDOM AND IN DEFENCE OF THE
PRINCIPLES OF THE CHARTER OF THE UNITED
NATIONS, IN THE FORCES OF HER MAJESTY QUEEN
ELIZABETH II, AND OTHER CANADIANS WHO
PAID THE SUPREME SACRIFICE DURING THE KOREAN
CONFLICT. THIS MEMORIAL IS ERECTED BY THE
KOREAN VETERANS ASSOCIATION AND WAS
UNVEILED BY THE LIEUTENANT-GOVERNOR OF
NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR IN YEAR
1980 A.D.
AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN
AND IN THE MORNING
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM
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NEWFOUNDLAND
TO THE GLORY OF GOD
AND IN PERPETUAL REMEMBRANCE
OF ONE HUNDRED AND NINETY TWO MEN OF
THE NEWFOUNDLAND ROYAL NAVAL RESERVE,
THIRTEEN HUNDRED MEN OF
THE ROYAL NEWFOUNDLAND REGIMENT,
ONE HUNDRED AND SEVENTEEN MEN
OF THE NEWFOUNDLAND MERCHANTILE MARINE AND
OF ALL THOSE OTHER NEWFOUNDLANDERS OF OTHER UNITS
OF HIS MAJESTY'S OR ALLIED FORCES WHO GAVE THEIR
LIVES BY SEA AND LAND FOR THE DEFENSE OF
THE BRITISH EMPIRE IN THE GREAT WAR 1914-1918.
FOR ENDURING, WITNESS, ALSO, TO THE SERVICE MEN OF
THIS ISLAND, WHO, DURING THAT WAR FOUGHT,
NOT WITHOUT HONOR IN THE NAVIES AND ARMIES
OF THE EMPIRE.
THIS MONUMENT IS ERECTED BY THEIR
FELLOW-COUNTRYMEN, AND WAS UNVEILED
BY FIELD MARSHALL EARL HAIG, K.T.,
G.C.B., O.M. ETC. FIRST OF JULY 1924.
"LET THEM GIVE GLORY UNTO THE LORD AND DECLARE
HIS PRAISE IN THE ISLANDS." ISAIAH 42.12
EGYPT FRANCE
GALLIPOLI BELGIUM
THE SEVEN SEAS
(plaque)
TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN PERPETUAL
REMEMBRANCE OF SEVEN HUNDRED AND THIRTEEN
MEMEBERS OF THE ROYAL NAVY, ROYAL CANADIAN
NAVY, ROYAL ARTILLERY, NEWFOUNDLAND REGIMENT,
CANADIAN ARMY, ROYAL AIR FORCE, ROYAL CANADIAN
AIR FORCE, OTHER ARMY UNITS AND TWO HUNDRED AND
SIXTY SIX MEMBERS OF THE MERCHANT MARINE WHO GAVE
THEIR LIVES IN THE CAUSE OF FREEDOM WHILE SERVING
IN THE FORCES OF HIS MAJESTY KING GEORGE THE SIXTH
AND ALL THOSE NEWFOUNDLANDERS WHO SERVED IN ALLIED
UNITS AND WHO PAID THE SUPREME SACRIFICE DURING
WORLD WAR TWO. THIS MEMORIAL IS ERECTED BY THE
GOVERNMENT OF NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR AND
BY THE ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION AND WAS UNVEILED
IN THE SILVER JUBLIEE YEAR OF HER MOST GRACIOUS
MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH THE SECOND.
NOVEMBER ELEVENTH, 1977.
AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN
AND IN THE MORNING
WE WILL REMEMBER THEM
(plaque)
TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN PERPETUAL REMEMBRANCE
OF THE MEN OF THE ROYAL NEWFOUNDLAND REGIMENT
OF FENCIBLE INFANTRY WHO FOUGHT AND DIED ON LAND
AND AS SAILORS, GUNNERS AND MARINES ON THE
GREAT LAKES IN SERVICE OF HIS MAJESTY IN THE
DEFENCE OF UPPER AND LOWER CANADA IN THE WAR OF 1812-15.
THEIR EXECEPTIONAL BRAVERY AND SERVICE IN THE BATTLES OF
DETROIT, FORT ERIE, FRENCHTOWN, OGDENSBURG, YORK, FORT MEIGS,
FORT GEORGE, SACKETS HARBOR, LAKE ERIE, MICHILIMACKINAC,
AND THE CAPTURE OF THE AMERICAN WARSHIPS USS TIGRESS AND
SCORPION WERE RECOGNIZED IN 2012 BY THE GOVERNMENT
OF CANADA AND RESULTED IN THE AWARDING OF
THE BATTLE OF HONOURS "DETROIT", "MAUMEE"
AND "DEFENCE OF CANADA 1812 - 15"
TO THE ROYAL NEWFOUNDLAND REGIMENT.
THIS PLAQUE PRESENTED BY THE ROYAL NEWFOUNDLAND
REGIMENT ADVISOR COUNCIL
IN 2013 ON THE OCCASION OF THE 200TH
ANNIVERSARY OF THE WAR OF 1812-15.
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TO THE GLORY OF GOD AND IN PERPETUAL REMEMBRANCE OF THE
YOUNG MEN OF NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR WHO SERVED IN THE
ROYAL FLYING CORPS, THE ROYAL NAVAL AIR SERVICE AND
SUBSEQUENTLY THE ROYAL AIR FORCE AS FIGHTER, BOMBER,
AND RECONNAISSANCE PILOTS AND OBSERVERS, MANY OF WHOM
GAVE THEIR LIVES WILLINGLY. THEIR EXCEPTIONAL BRAVERY AND
SERVICE ENSURED BRITISH DOMINION OVER THE SKIES DURING
WORLD WAR 1 (1914-1918). THEY WILL BE REMEMBERED
FOREVER BY A FREE AND GRATEFUL NATION.
PER ARDUA AD ASTRA
THIS MEMORIAL IS ERECTED BY HONORARY
COLONEL WILLIAM MAHONEY, O.M.M., O.N.L., C.D. AND
VETERANS AFFAIRS CANADA IN THE YEAR 2020 A.D.
DURING THE REIGN OF
HER MAJESTY QUEEN ELIZABETH II
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