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War memorial - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Arlington National Cemetery has a Canadian Cross of Sacrifice with the names of all the citizens of the USA who lost their lives fighting in the Canadian forces during the Korean War and two World Wars. Many cemeteries tended by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission have an identical war memorial called the Cross of Sacrifice designed by Sir Reginald Blomfield that vary in height from 4.5m to 9m depending on the size of the cemetery. A war memorial is a building, monument, statue or other edifice to commemorate those who died, or been injured, in war. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/War_Memorial

V O R T E X 3: : Publications and on-line Papers / Conferences : Peacekeeping, Peace, Memorialization In Ottawa, the original design for the cast bronze allegorical figures at the top of the National War Memorial was to be “either Peace and Victory or Liberty and Freedom”, the sculptor Vernon March deciding eventually on the figure of Peace adorned with a laurel wreath – the symbolic flowers of victory. In detailing these principal urban markers the commissioners sought to replicate the symbolic and architectural properties of the National War Memorial, which is situated some three hundred metres to the south of the space set aside for the Peacekeeping Monument. Most military monuments are intended to commemorate historic victories and to preserve national ideals; war memorials are designed to evoke meaningful memory and to act as focal points for national mourning. www.uwe.ac.uk /amd/vortex/recottwa.htm

The National Online--Korea: The Forgotten War The memorial was put up by the veterans themselves and when it was dedicated in 1997, the federal government sent no one to attend the ceremony. Canada was in at the creation of the UN's army in Korea, two months after the North struck. The war was launched by North Korea with the blessing of Stalin. tv.cbc.ca /national/pgminfo/korea

Remembrance Day The National War Memorial was officially unveiled by His Majesty King George VI at eleven o'clock on the morning of Sunday, May 21, 1939. Following the First World War, 1914-1918, there was a strong sentiment in Canada that a memorial should be erected to those who had served their country in that war. In 1925, a world-wide competition was held to choose a design for a national commemorative war monument to be erected in the capital of Canada. www.canoe.ca /RemembranceDay/memorial.html

Legion Magazine : They are standing near the National War Memorial and the children, bundled up against the cold, are mesmerized by the war veterans who march by with shiny medals on their chests. The Unknown Soldier was laid to rest in a tomb in front of the National War Memorial last May (The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, September/October). In 1998 and 1999, due to construction in the area of the National War Memorial, a temporary cenotaph was placed on Parliament Hill and the ceremony was held there. www.legionmagazine.com /frontline/news/01-01.asp?id=print

National War Memorial - A Canadian Legacy The War Memorial owes its prominent position to former Prime Minister Mackenzie King who insisted that Confederation Square be designed with the Memorial in the centre, despite the difficulties it posed for traffic circulation. The Capital hosts the National Remembrance Day ceremony, usually attended by the Governor General, the Prime Minister, veterans and the general public, and broadcast across Canada. Although it was designed to commemorate those who died in the "war to end all wars," the Memorial was not unveiled until 1939, months before the Second World War began. www.ottawakiosk.com /national_war_memorial.html

CNEWS Remembrance Day - Symbols of Remembrance Canada's national war memorial was conceived and built in a garden in Kent, England. The Memorial Chamber and Books of Remembrance are in the Centre Block, in the Peace Tower of the Parliament Buildings, where they honour 116,031 Canadians who died while serving in military campaigns outside Canada. For the trip to Canada, the massive structure of the memorial was cut into parts to fit into 35 wooden cases. www.canoe.ca /RemembranceDay/00_symbols.html

Canada's Capital and its region - Capital Attractions the remains of an unknown Canadian soldier were laid to rest in a sarcophagus on the upper plaza on the south side of Canada's National War Memorial. This large memorial arch is a tribute to all Canadians who have served Canada in war. The National War Memorial was unveiled by his Majesty King George VI in May 1939. www.canadascapital.gc.ca /attractions/monuments/warmemorial_e.html

'War memorial' related links at LinkHighWay.com The War Memorial in Hilderstone is a fitting tribute to the men of the village who gave their lives during the two World Wars. The Angmering War Memorial was designed in 1919 by PM Johnson FSA, FRIBA, architect and Sussex antiquarian and unveiled on 27 May 1920. The war memorial is located on the corner of Coles Road and Fen Road. linkhighway.com /?q=war-memorial

The War Amps: Canada's Military Heritage - Memorials: National Military Cemetery of the Canadian Forces Providing a memorial site, such as the National Military Cemetery in Ottawa, is a means of honouring former and serving members of the Canadian Forces. Addresses were made by the Governor General, the Minister of the Department of National Defence, the Chief of the Defence Staff and the President of the Beechwood Cemetery. The Commonwealth War Graves Commission administers the graves of 235 veterans buried in Section 29. www.waramps.ca /military/memorials/nmc.html

IODE.ca - Of Interest to Members The History, IODE’s Living legacy As World War I ended, The National Chapter of Canada IODE initiated a living memorial to 60,000 Canadians whose lives were sacri?ced. At the National Annual Meeting in Winnipeg in 1946, the Second War Memorial was established to honour over 40,000 Canadian men and women whose lives were lost. In 1929, the War Memorial Fund of the Imperial Order Daughters of the Empire was enacted by a special act (Bill 8) of the Legislative Assembly of the Province of Ontario. www.iode.ca /programs.html

CBC News:Canada remembers Hundreds of Canada's aging veterans stood in full uniform to remember their comrades who fell so long ago, and to honour the country's latest war dead. OTTAWA- Canadians gathered at war memorials across the country Monday morning to remember the sacrifices of war. The poppy became symbolic of Canada's war dead after the poem In Flanders Fields, written by Canadian Lt.-Col John McCrae during the First World War. www.cbc.ca /stories/2002/11/11/remem_day021111

National War Memorial Designed originally to commemorate the 60,000 Canadians who died in the First World War, the National War Memorial in Confederation Square has since come to commemorate all of Canada's war dead. A side view of the National War Memorial. The competition for the memorial's design, announced in 1925, was open to British subjects and to subjects of nations allied with the British Empire during the war. www.cdli.ca /monuments/on/hs~nationalwar.htm

National War Memorial - Carillon New Zealand’s National War Memorial Carillon was originally designed as the sister instrument to the Peace Tower Carillon at the Parliament Buildings, Ottawa, Canada. After the war, the instrument enjoyed a peacetime renaissance and many new carillons were built throughout the world as war memorials. During World War I, many European carillons were confiscated and their bells melted down for armaments. www.nationalwarmemorial.govt.nz /caril-lon.html

CTV.ca Canada to dedicate memorial to Korean War dead Canada's Korean war dead are also remembered in an inscription on the National War Memorial. The Monument to Canadian Fallen, a gift of the Canadian Korean War Commemoration Committee, duplicates a monument which stands in the United Nations War Memorial Cemetery in Korea. The National Capital Commission, the agency which oversees federal lands and infrastructure in the Ottawa region, will hold a competition this fall to select an artist to design the monument. www.ctv.ca /servlet/ArticleNews/story/CTVNews/1060876214676_89

The Vietnam Veteran's Memorial Wall Page         The Vietnam Veterans Memorial Wall USA website is dedicated to honoring those who died in the Vietnam War. It is now also a place of healing for those affected by one of the most divisive wars in our nation's history. The Wall USA is a non-profit endeavor maintained by veterans of the 4th Battalion 9th Infantry Regiment for the benefit of all. thewall-usa.com

History of Scottish National War Memorial It was decided that the war was also to be memorialised in the establishment of a National War Museum, later to become the Imperial War Museum, London. As a focus of National and Imperial mourning it was logical that the Cenotaph and the National War Museum be located in the Imperial Capital, London. However the war was not going well and with the German offensive in France and Flanders in the spring of 1918 little progress was made on the memorial. www.snwm.org /website/history

Joyce Kennedy's Album: Canadian Military Heritage Links Photos from Harry Palmer: Canadian War Cemeteries and Memorials In Europe World War I Internment Camps - Banff National Park "We Will Remember" - War Monuments in Canada www.canadagoose.net /links.htm

Walter S. Allward Collection: Finding Aid Associated material: Other holdings at the National Gallery of Canada related to Walter Allward consist of 10 sculptures and 51 drawings by Allward including The Storm, maquettes for Canada "Bereft" and The King Edward VII Memorial and studies for the Stratford War Memorial. In 1912 he was awarded the contract for the King Edward VII memorial in Ottawa of which only two figures, Truth and Justice, were cast in 1923 and which are now installed in front of the Supreme Court in Ottawa. Immediate source of acquisition: Peter Allward donated 101 photographs documenting the design and construction of the Vimy Memorial in 1986 and 55 photographs, 5 negatives, and 1 chronology documenting the life and career of W. Allward in 1997. national.gallery.ca /english/library/biblio/ngc008.html

Perry's Victory & International Peace Memorial (National Park Service) The battle, fought during the War of 1812, secured control of Lake Erie for the United States and enabled General William Henry Harrison to conduct a successful invasion of Western Upper Canada. Perry's Victory & International Peace Memorial (National Park Service) However, in 1817 the United States signed the Rush-Bagot Agreement with Great Britain, a document that has resulted in peaceful relations between the United States and Canada since the War of 1812. www.nps.gov /pevi

Naval Aviation Research and Archives of the World. IMPERIAL WAR MUSEUM the multi-branch national museum of the history of war and wartime life from 1914 's National Museum of Aviation, celebrates the story of aviation from before the Wright Brothers to the RAF of the 21st Century with one of the world's finest collections of legendary aircraft and associated exhibits. It is dedicated to the memory of Lieutenant Robert Hampton Gray, VC, DSC, MiD, RCNVR; the Royal Canadian Navy's only recipient of the Victoria Cross in World War II. www.fleetairarmarchive.net

CDA Logo The National War Memorial commemorates all those who served Canada in times of war. Initially constructed to commemorate the response of Canadians to the First World War, the National War Memorial was unveiled in 1939 by His Majesty King George VI. In 1982 the dates 1939-1945 and 1950-1953 were added and the Memorial was rededicated to those who served Canada in the Second World War and the Korean War. www.cda-cdai.ca /cdalogo.htm

World War I, Links to Other Resources Canada at War - The National SchoolNet collections site, part of Canada's Digital Collections, includes the: CEF Attestation Papers; Books of Remembrance; Aviation Hall of Fame; Canadian Military Medals and Decorations; Canadian Veterans Recollect; Courage Remembered; The Northwest Rebellion of 1885; the Taconis Collection and Canadian Military Uniforms. Parks Canada's page concerning the Internment camps erected during the First World War in Banff National Park, at the Cave and Basin and near Castle Mountain. National Archives of Canada, with sections dealing with locating and obtaining Canadian Service records held within the Archives. www.lib.byu.edu /~rdh/wwi/links.html

Our Way Home Reunion The weekend will honor those who came to Canada and resisted war through a range of activity, from burning their draft cards during the Vietnam War to fleeing army barracks to escape the war in Iraq. Our Way Home National Reunion Weekend is a celebration of their many achievements and the lives they have made here in Canada. In an assertion of sovereignty in its post-WWII relationship with the United States, Canada opened its border and provided Americans with an opportunity to oppose the Vietnam War by moving to a new country. www.ourwayhomereunion.com

Eva & Michael @ Windflower Gore, Canada Tomb of THE UNKNOWN SOLDIER - Ottawa Canada Sask WW1 Memorial in memory 5,348 young men&women killed in the First WW0.jpg The Governor General of Canada and Silver Cross Mother groups.msn.com /EvaMichaelWindflowerGoreCanada/lestweforget.msnw

Remembrance Day "We Will Remember" - War Monuments in Canada "But the war went on and he had to stay, And all I could do was wait and pray. "Till at last, at last, the war was won- And that's why we wear a poppy son." The small boy turned as if to go, Then said, "Thanks, lady, I'm glad to know. canada.kos.net /remembrance.html

Remembrance Day 2004 Photo Gallery In spite of the cold, many attended the Remembrance Day ceremony at the National War Memorial, Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. Master Corporal Jason William Fraser, an infantryman serving with the 3rd Battalion, Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry in the Edmonton Garrison, is the Army sentry on the National War Memorial for the official Remembrance Day ceremony in Ottawa. World War II veterans (L-R) Bob Fothergill, Bill Schmitt (OAM) and Keith Mole, attended the Remembrance Day Service in the Repat Chapel at the Repatriation General Hospital, Daw Park, SA. www.dva.gov.au /commem/rememb/O4_gallery.htm

The National War Memorial - Veterans Affairs Canada The National War Memorial - Veterans Affairs Canada ©Minister of Supply and Services Canada / Ministre des Approvisionnements et Services Canada 1982 ISBN 066-51880-2 www.vac-acc.gc.ca /general/sub.cfm?source=memorials/memcan/national

National War Memorial - Ottawa - Virtual Panoramic Tours Located in the centre of Confederation Square at the intersection of Wellington, Sparks, and Elgin Streets (across from the Chateau Laurier) stands the National War Memorial. National War Memorial - Ottawa- Virtual Panoramic Tours The monument is a symbol of the passing of war into peace. www.ottawakiosk.com /panos/sparks_street_4.html

National War Memorial, Ottawa, 1988 Within sight of our parliament buildings, the National War Memorial is the centre of offical national remembrance on November 11th each year. Return to Toronto, Ottawa and Montreal War Memorials Gallery The Peace Tower and the East Block are seen in the background. www.harrypalmergallery.ab.ca /galwartom/natwar.html

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