The Gallipoli Newfoundland Memorial is a war memorial that commemorates the actions of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment during the Gallipoli campaign, of World War I.[1] Located at the southwest end of the Gallipoli Peninsula, Turkey, near Suvla Bay the memorial commemorates the participation of the Newfoundland Regiment in the landing at Suvla Bay on 20 September 1915 with the 29th Division.[2]
Memorial
The memorial is one of six erected in Europe by the Newfoundland government following the First World War. Four were erected in France at Beaumont-Hamel, Gueudecourt, Masnières and Monchy-le-Preux and the fifth is at Courtrai/Kortrijk in Belgium. A sixth monument, a gift from Major William Howe Greene, OBE, who served with the Newfoundlanders during the war[3] stands in Bowring Park in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada.[3] The memorials feature are all centrally identical, featuring the emblem of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, the caribou, cast in bronze, as designed by British sculptor Basil Gotto.[4]
The Gallipoli Memorial is situated 25 metres northwest of Hill 10 Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery in Gallipoli, which is the resting place for eight Royal Newfoundland Regiment soldiers.[5]
Notes
- ^ "Final Caribou Monument Installed in Gallipoli". Government of Newfoundland and Labrador. April 13, 2021. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
- ^ Higgins, Jenny (April 2015). "The Newfoundland Regiment at Gallipoli". Newfoundland and Labrador Heritage. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
- ^ a b Busch 2003, p. 151.
- ^ "Gallipoli Caribou Memorial Progress - The Gallipoli Association". Gallipoli Association. Retrieved 12 May 2021.
- ^ "Trail of the Caribou finished with last piece placed on Gallipoli Peninsula". CBC News. 13 April 2021. Retrieved 11 May 2021.
References
- Busch, Briton Cooper (2003). Canada and the Great War: Western Front Association Papers. Montreal: McGill-Queen's University Press. ISBN 0-7735-2570-X.
