The First World War Monuments and Memorials in the countries of the Commonwealth

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Shrine of Remembrance
The Shrine of Remembrance is a war memorial
in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia. It was built to honour the
men and women of Victoria who served in World War I. It is
one of the largest war memorials in Australia. Once a year,
on 11 November at 11 a.m. (Remembrance Day), a ray of
sunlight shines through an aperture in the roof to light up the
word "Love" in the inscription. Beneath the sanctuary lies the
crypt, which contains a bronze statue of a soldier father and
son.

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Tredegar War Memorial
(Tredegar, Wales, UK)
The war memorial was unveiled on
14th December 1924. Over 4000
men from the town fought in the
WWI. Many volunteered to escape
working in the coal mine. They
believed the fighting would be
over within months, instead they
were away foe years and over 300
never came home- a devastating
loss for a town of its size.

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The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (Ottawa, Canada)
The Canadian Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is a
part of the National military memorial in Ottawa,
Canada . In a grave the remains of the unknown
soldier who died during World War I are. They were
transported from France on May 25, 2000. On May
28, 2000 the soldier were reburied with honor. The
Canadian Tomb of the Unknown Soldier represents
27 500 soldiers who died in World War I and had no
own graves.
There are nine memorials devoted to the
Canadian soldiers in France and Belgium as well.
On places of the major battles of the Canadian
troops memorial complexes are built.

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The New Zealand National War Memorial
The New Zealand National War
Memorial
was
dedicated
in
commemoration of the First World War in
1932. The memorial also officially
remembers the New Zealanders who
gave their lives in the South African Boer
War, World War II and the wars in Korea,
Malaysia and Vietnam. The War
Memorial consists of the War Memorial
Carillon, the Hall of Memories, and an
unknown New Zealand soldier interred in
a tomb, constructed in 2004 in front of
the Hall of Memories. Four Rolls of Honor
bear the names and ranks of 28,654
New Zealand soldiers.

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The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (Arlington cemetery,
Washington, USA) (1921)
The USA became the third country in the world where
the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier has appeared. For the
reburial remains of one of four anonymous soldiers buried
at military cemeteries in France were chosen. The
soldier's remains were brought to America by the military
cruiser
on November 11, 1921,. This soldier was
posthumously awarded the highest military award of the
USA – "Honor medal".
Words are inscribed
on his tombstone: "Here rest in
honored glory an American soldier unknown but to God
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MUSEUM AND MEMORIAL
Built By Kansas Citians, Embraced By the Nation
Soon after World War I ended, Kansas City
leaders
formed
the
Liberty
Memorial
Association (LMA) to create a lasting
monument to the men and women who had
served in the war. In 1919, the LMA and citizens
of Kansas City raised more than $2.5 million in
just 10 days. This staggering accomplishment
reflected the passion of public sentiment for the
Great War that had dramatically changed the
world.

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War Memorials in London
Royal Artillery Memorial
The Royal Artillery Memorial is a
sculpture
built
by
Charles
Sargeant Jagger as a memorial
of the First World War. It is
currently located in Hyde Park in
the city of London. The memorial
is the location of the plinths of the
Gunner and the Officer in the
Stoneheart Trilogy.
Guards Division War Memorial
The Guards Memorial, also known as
the Guards Division War Memorial, is an
outdoor war memorial located on the
west side of Horse Guards Road,
opposite
the
Horse
Guards
Parade in London, United Kingdom. It
commemorates the war dead from
the Guards Division and related units
during the First World War, and of
the Household Division in the Second
World War and other conflicts since 1918.

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Australian War Memorial
The Australian War Memorial is Australia's
national memorial dedicated to those
who
died or participated in wars
involving
the
Commonwealth
of
Australia. The memorial includes the
archive, a garden of sculptures, the
gallery, the library and an extensive
national military museum. The Australian
War Memorial was opened in 1941, and is
widely regarded as one of the most
significant memorials of its type in the
world.
On walls of a colonnade names of
Australian servicemen are inscribed. In
the hall there is a Tomb of the Unknown
Soldier and other monuments.

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“Minimum Monument”
The installation, called “Minimum Monument,” is
the work of Brazilian sculptor Nele Azevedo.
5,000 little ice figurines were arranged on the
steps in Birmingham’s Chamberlain Square to
commemorate the men and women (not only
soldiers) who lost their lives in World War I. The
melting, ghostly figures, placed by volunteers,
created a truly haunting image, and they were
crowned by a red figure that seemed to drip a
trail of blood down the steps.

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"Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red"
In 2014 the whole world marked the 100th anniversary of
the start of World War I. A massive work of art, dedicated
to commonwealth servicemen and women lost a
century ago, was set up in London. The evolving
installation, by Paul Cummins, titled "Blood Swept Lands
and Seas of Red", began with the placing of a single
ceramic poppy in the moat of the Tower of London. All
in all 888,245 poppies were added, each representing a
military fatality from World War I. The poppies were
arranged to appear as a flowing sea of blood pouring
from the Tower's "Weeping Window".

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38th (Welsh) Division Memorial
It was the 38th (Welsh) Infantry Division that was
charged with taking Mametz Wood during the
bloody Battle of the Somme on July 7, 1916.
After five long days they managed to clear the
woods of Germans, which cost them 4,000
deaths and casualties. This is how the 38th
(Welsh) Division Memorial erected, with a
defiant dragon (the Red Dragon of Wales was
the division’s insignia) standing on a 10 feet
plinth, facing the woods with the regimental
cap badge of the South Wales Borderers
carved on one side of the base.

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The Cenotaph in London, 1920
The Cenotaph is a memorial that honors the
British soldiers who died in the Great War of
1914-18 and all wars that followed.
Every year on Remembrance Day - the Sunday closest near
November 11 - the Cenotaph is the centerpiece of the
Remembrance Day celebrations, when people pay tribute to
those who lost their lives in the war. It is also called Armistice Day
since on that day in 1918 the Germans signed the armistice that
effectively ended the First World War. All citizens across the British
Empire observe a two-minute long silence on 11/11 at 11 o'clock.

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Monument to Mozambican Soldiers (Maputo)
Monument to the Great
War is a big monument
which represents the efforts
and sacrifices of the
Portuguese and
Mozambicans in the First
World War, located in the
capital city of Mozambique,
Maputo.

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India Gate
India Gate is a memorial to 70,000 soldiers of the Indian
Army who died in the period 1914–21 in the First World War, in
France,Flanders,Mesopotamia,Persia,East Africa, Gallipoli and
elsewhere in the Near and the Far East, and the Third AngloAfghan War. 13,300 servicemen's names, including some
soldiers and officers from the United Kingdom, are inscribed
on the gate

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Canadian National Vimy Memorial
The Canadian National Vimy Memorial is a war
memorial site in France dedicated to the memory
of Canadian Expeditionary Force members killed
during the First World War
The Battle of Vimy Ridge was the first occasion on
which all four divisions of the Canadian Expeditionary
Force participated in a battle as a cohesive
formation, and it became a Canadian national
symbol of achievement and sacrifice.
The project took designer Walter Seymour Allward
eleven years to see built.

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Rudyard Kipling
"For All We Have And Are"
1914
For all we have and are,
For all our children's fate,
Stand up and take the war.
The Hun is at the gate!
Our world has passed away,
In wantonness o'erthrown.
There is nothing left to-day
But steel and fire and stone!
Comfort, content, delight,
The ages' slow-bought gain,
They shrivelled in a night.
Only ourselves remain
To face the naked days
In silent fortitude,
Through perils and dismays
Renewed and re-renewed.
Though all we made depart,
The old Commandments stand: -Though all we knew depart,
"In patience keep your heart,
The old Commandments stand: -- In strength lift up your hand."
"In courage keep your heart,
In strength lift up your hand."
Once more we hear the word
That sickened earth of old: -"No law except the Sword
Unsheathed and uncontrolled."
Once more it knits mankind,
Once more the nations go
To meet and break and bind
A crazed and driven foe.

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