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The Canadian War Memorial

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It took a family named March who came from Farnbourgh Kent consisting of 5 brothers and 1 sister ten years to make this superb piece of sculpture,one brother died during the work. Photo shows it being set up in Hyde Park in 1932 before being taken to Ottawa
 
Another, possibly little known, Canadian Memorial is situated in Newhaven, Sussex.
Sixty five years ago on the 19th August, 1942 Operation Jubilee took place where 5,000 soldiers of the Canadian 2nd Division formed the major part of the ill fated raid on Dieppe. Of those numbers 3,369 were casualties
It was at Newhaven where the majority of the soldiers embarked.
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There is also the Canadian War Memorial dedicated to the memory of Canadian soldiers who served in the two world wars in London's Green Park - depicts fallen leaves..... which I think is beautiful
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Shrine of Remembrance ​

The turning point came on Canada Day 2000. While thousands of people throng Parliament Hill and the area around the National War Memorial in Ottawa, some chose do more than celebrate. They paid their respect to the Unknown Soldier by laying tiny paper Canadian flags on the granite grave

One couldn’t see the top of the sarcophagus – there were hundreds of flags on it. There were always people milling around the War Memorial, but the tomb had brought many more – there is sanctity added!

Canada’s Unknown Soldier was interred in a special tomb at the foot of the National War Memorial in a solemn ceremony which was televised nationally.

Though the Unknown Soldier lost his life and even his name in battle, he captured the imagination of the public. This soldier has taken remembrance beyond heroic symbolism of the National War Memorial to a more personal level. People seeing and touching the granite tomb can equate to Canada’s loss much more readily. In a very real sense the tomb has become a ‘Shrine of Remembrance’ - bringing the past alive to new generations of Canadians.
 

Canada's Unknown Soldier was selected from a First World War cemetery in France in the vicinity of Vimy Ridge, the scene of a famous Canadian victory in that war. Among the thousands of Canadian graves in the area, there are more than 1,600 marked only with A Canadian Soldier - ' Known Unto God.'
 
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