War Monument

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War Monument

Photo credit: Gary Perlman
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Municipality/Province: Montréal, QC

Memorial number: 24075-093

Type: Monument

Address: 5015 De La Savane Street

Location: Baron De Hirsch Cemetery

GPS coordinates: Lat: 45.5016417 Long: -73.6527622

Photo credit: Gary Perlman

The main monument was erected by the Association of Jewish Members of the Canadian Armed Forces in 1947. Two additional monuments were dedicated on November 11, 2013. It is Canada’s largest monument to the military service of Canada’s Jewish community.

The names of 579 Jewish Canadians, who died while serving their country in uniform, are inscribed in black on the monument’s light grey stone. These fallen heroes include those who lost their lives in the First and Second World Wars and the Korean War. A Star of David is near the top of the monument.

The initiative to erect an expanded Jewish war monument in the Baron de Hirsch Cemetery was spearheaded by Larry G. Rosenthal, whose older brother, Gunner William Guy Rosenthal (Willy), was killed in action during the Second World War.

Inscription found on memorial

[front/devant]

THEY WERE LOVELY
AND PLEASANT
IN THEIR LIVES
AND IN THEIR DEATH
WERE NOT DIVIDED
SWIFTER THAN EAGLES
STRONGER THAN LIONS
TO DO THE WILL
OF THEIR MASTER
AND THE DESIRE
OF THEIR ROCK

[main monument, right side]

ROLL OF HONOUR

[main monument, left side]

ROLL OF HONOUR

[left wall]

[right wall]

Street view

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Date modified:: 2023-07-28