Margot Davies Memorial Plaque

IN MEMORY
OF
MARGOT DAVIES, M.B.E.

MARGOT, WHO LEFT NEWFOUNDLAND AT AN EARLY AGE, WAS A FRIEND TO THOUSANDS OF NEWFOUNDLAND SERVICEMEN WHO SERVED OVERSEAS DURING WORLD WAR II

HER WEEKLY BROADCAST "CALLING FROM BRITIAN TO NEWFOUNDLAND," THROUGH THE FACILITIES OF THE BRITISH BROADCASTING CORPORATION, WHICH COMMENCED SHORTLY AFTER THE ARRIVAL OF THE FIRST NEWFOUNDLAND TROOPS IN ENGLAND AND CONTINUED UNTIL A FEW WEEKS PRIOR TO HER SAD DEMISE ENDEARED HER TO THE PEOPLE OF NEWFOUNDLAND

LORD GRANT THAT WE MAY SEEK RATHER TO COMFORT
THAN TO BE COMFORTED
THAT WHERE THERE IS SADNESS WE MAY BRING JOY
THAT WHERE THERE IS DESPAIR WE MAY BRING HOPE AND WHERE THERE ARE SHADOWS WE MAY BRING THY LIGHT.

ERECTED BY THE
GOVERNMENT OF NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR AND BY PRIVATE AND PUBLIC CONTRIBUTIONS MEMORIAL FUND INSTITUTED BY EX-GUNNER MAXWELL LITTLE JOHN ROYAL ARTILLERY