Great War Memorials

[Pat Holscher]

Does your town have any interesting ones? Every town has one or more, but some are unique.

Here's one in the courtyard of the Episcopal Cathedral in Laramie, WY. Unfortunately, it has been defaced, and two of the bronze figures are missing. The remaining ones are an aviator (complete with an airplane depicted), and the other is a figure spearing a dragon. Two more originally existed, but are missing.

I'm unsure if the names listed are the dead from the church, or have some other significance. A county memorial near the courthouse list all the dead for the county.





Pat

[G.KUSH.UE]

Just about every city, town & village across Canada has a Great War memorial. In many small communities, World War Two & Korean War tablets have been added. In most cases, the names of all of the local dead are inscribed on the memorial.

George

[Pat Holscher]

Originally posted by G.KUSH.UE
Just about every city, town & village across Canada has a Great War memorial. In many small communities, World War Two & Korean War tablets have been added. In most cases, the names of all of the local dead are inscribed on the memorial.

George

That's often how they are here too. The one depicted here is not the county one, which does include the war dead from WWII and the Korean War, I think, as well. Many include WWI and WWII. The one here locally includes WWII and the Korean War. Vietnam War ones tend to be separate, as a rule, as I suppose the memorials had already basically been filled.

Pat

[John M Φ]

This is the War Memorial erected in 1922 on College Green, close to
Gloucester Cathedral. It names the 228 men and officers of the Royal
Gloucestershire Hussars Yeomanry who fell in the Middle East in WWI.
Gallipoli 1915, Sinai 1916, Palestine 1917 and Syria 1918. I think the
plaques must be of bronze.
Of possible interest is the name of Major.G.N.Horlick, of the famous Horlick
malted drink family who lived at Cowley Manor in the Cotswolds. He provided
Horlick's drink for the men to hold dysentery at bay. Regretably he died of
malaria at Alexandria in 1918.

An additional relief plaque of the same material as the others,
commemorating the Regiment for their part in WWII, has been later added at a
lower level.
John.M.

[John M Φ]

Many thanks Pat for putting this on the Forum on my behalf,
John.M.

John D Morgan

[Pat Holscher]

Originally posted by John Morgan
Of possible interest is the name of Major.G.N.Horlick, of the famous Horlick
malted drink family who lived at Cowley Manor in the Cotswolds.He provided
Horlick's drink for the men to hold dysentery at bay. Regretably he died of
malaria at Alexandria in 1918.

I had not heard of Horlicks malted drink and became curious about it. I had a mental image, given the malt, of the Hussars perhaps getting a malted liquor ration from a local brewery, which sorry to say probably says more about me than anything else. And then ale was used as a treatment for black water fever by natives, and some colonists, in Southern Africa so I thought, well, perhaps this was some similar type of approach. Anyhow, curious, I looked it up and it appears to be something like malted milk. Quite deflating!

Pat

[Pat Holscher]

We had an old thread on this awhile back. I'll repost the photos and comments from that one a while back, but I ran across a new one in Evanston, WY, the other day. Given as it was quite interesting and dramatic, I thought I'd post it.



Here's the photo of the Evanston, WY memorial. The base, which isn't really visible, notes that it was originally for veterans of the Civil War, the Spanish American War. World War I veterans were lated added as the "World War". WWII veterans were also listed on it. Presumably the original Civil War and Spanish American War base wasn't as substantial as the present monument, with the charging doughboy.

Pat

[Pat Holscher]

This is out of context, but here's another monument on the courthouse lawn in Evanston. This is a memorial for the WWII and Korean War dead.



Pat

[Pat Holscher]

Here's the old archived thread on Spanish American War memorials. I thought I'd link that in as the Evanston memorial started off as a memorial for Civil War and Spanish American War veterans. I'd guess it was put in shortly after the Spanish American War, when there were still living Civil War veterans.

I won't try to repost all this thread, but will repost the photos, of which there were only a few:

topic.asp?ARCHIVE=true&TOPIC_ID=1472

Originally posted by Pat Holscher
This is the statue in Cheyenne I referenced as being named "The Volunteer". In retrospect, I think it might be called "Taking the Oath"

These photos were taken on October 31, 2002.











Pat

These photos are of the Spanish American War memorial at the Capitol Building in Cheyenne.

Pat

[Trooper]

Our latest memorial to war dead, dedicated yesterday:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid ... id=7042203

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/7041330.stm

Dušan

[Ron Smith]

When those memorials and the thousands like them were dedicated the appreciation for those who they remember and represent easily fades.

How often do we all drive past a Courthouse or Town Square and take for granted these tributes. When we read/study the actions these troops were engaged in these stones take a whole new meaning again.

Ron

[Pat Holscher]

Originally posted by Ron Smith
When those memorials and the thousands like them were dedicated the appreciation for those who they remember and represent easily fades.

How often do we all drive past a Courthouse or Town Square and take for granted these tributes. When we read/study the actions these troops were engaged in these stones take a whole new meaning again.

Ron

That's quite true.

It may be the recent war, but I've seen some renewed interest in the old monuments recently. Casper actually moved the WWII and Korean War memorial that was in City Park to a newly revived veterans park. That park, which formerly was simply a dedicated traffic island, has been really spruced up. To my slight irritation, however, the WWI section somehow manages to completely omit the service of the Wyoming Army National Guard, which was called up for the Mexican border troubles, and served as an artillery outfit in WWI. They're simply not mentioned. The Rainbow Division, which apparently most Wyoming enlistees or draftees in the war served in, is prominently featured, as is Gen. Pershing, who had state connections.

They're trying to cover all the wars the state has had some role in, going back to the Indian Wars.

On the Evanston memorial, I was really surprised to see the Civil War actually mentioned. Wyoming was a territory at that time, and the only role the state had in the Civil War was in being a battleground for revived Plains Indians efforts. That was pretty significant, but the only native vets of that era here were truly that, Natives. Still, Casper actually has a GAR memorial, in the Ft. Caspar graveyard, and Basin Wyoming has a couple of cannons in the front yard of the courthouse that were dedicated by a GAR post. So apparently there was an effort by and for the old Civil War veterans to remember them, after they moved here.

Pat

[Pat Holscher]

Originally posted by Trooper
Our latest memorial to war dead, dedicated yesterday:
http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid ... id=7042203

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/in_pictures/7041330.stm

Dušan

Very impressive memorial.

I found this statement to be quite striking:

"The memorial commemorates those who have died since World War II. There are 16,000 names carved, with room for 15,000 more."

We often hear about American casualties since World War Two, but we here don't often think about British casualties (or those of other European countries). Some of these losses came in wars we were also in, like the Korean War. Very impressive.

Pat

[Pat Holscher]

Here's a German veteran's memorial plaque, depicting a cavalryman, amongst other things, courtesy of Tom Muller. Tom can provide the details.:





Pat

Pat

[selewis]

[selewis]

Thanks for posting the pics, Pat. These guns are located on the Crowsnest highway (Rt 3 Alberta) a few miles east of the divide in the small community of Frankslide. I found it interesting that they appear to be rigged for motor transport but still have the wood spoked wheels. I don't know how unusual that might be but I knew that folks here could glean much from the photos. While they are out of doors it was nice to see that they are regularly attended to with fresh paint. There is a small plaque by them- that didn't come out in focus- that lists about a dozen names from the community that died in the Great War. Below that is affixed an addendum of 3 or 4 casualties from WWII.

Sandy

[selewis]

[Pat Holscher]

Really interesting to see a WWI memorial made up of war prizes like this. And the weapons appear to be in fine shape.

[Couvi]

We had an old thread on this awhile back. I'll repost the photos and comments from that one a while back, but I ran across a new one in Evanston, WY, the other day. Given as it was quite interesting and dramatic, I thought I'd post it.



Here's the photo of the Evanston, WY memorial. The base, which isn't really visible, notes that it was originally for veterans of the Civil War, the Spanish American War. World War I veterans were lated added as the "World War". WWII veterans were also listed on it. Presumably the original Civil War and Spanish American War base wasn't as substantial as the present monument, with the charging doughboy.

Pat

Anniston, AL, has this same statue on its WWI Memorial. Unfortunately, some little darling broke off the blade on the bayonet.

[barra]

http://www.dva.gov.au/sa%5Fnt/commemora ... thorse.htm

Here is a phto of the lighthorse memorial in Adelaide South Australia with adjoining war horse memorial which is an actual horse trough. Every ANZAC day a memorial is held here and homage paid to not only the Light Horsemen but also their trusty steeds. After the traditional wreaths are laid, someone invariably places a carrot or apple on the trough in memory of the horses.

This one is the south African memorial (Boer War) also in Adelaide South Australia.

http://www.waymarking.com/gallery/image ... 4d1f69767b

Barra