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Pembroke War Memorial

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Municipality/Province: Pembroke, ON

Memorial number: 35070-026

Type: Slab, statue

Address: Pembroke and MacKay Streets

Location: Memorial Cenotaph Park

GPS coordinates: Lat: 45.8266792   Long: -77.1111146

Submitted by: Simon Litalien. Victoria Edwards.

Photo credit: Simon Litalien

The Pembroke War Memoria was unveiled by Lieutenant General Sir Francis Lloyd in July 1924. It was sculpted by local monumental masons T.W. Colley and Sons. The memorial was dedicated to those who died in the First World War. Later, inscriptions were added for the Second World War and Korean War.

The memorial's infamous inscription, found on many cenotaphs, are the prose of John Ceredigion-Jones' The Returning Man. John was a Welsh-Canadian poet who was a habitual writer of letters to the editor and composer of poetry.


Inscription found on memorial

ERECTED TO THE
MEMORY OF THE MEN OF PEMBROKE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES IN
THE GREAT WAR
1914 - 1918

ALLS WELL FOR OVER THERE
AMONG HIS PEERS A HAPPY
WARRIOR SLEEPS

HONOUR ROLL ARMY

(name/noms)

AND REACHING UP HE TOUCHED THE FACE OF GOD

IN MEMORY OF
THE MEN
FROM PEMBROKE AND DISTRICT
WHO DIED FOR THEIR COUNTRY IN
WORLD WAR II
1939 - 1945
KOREA 1950 - 1953


HONOUR ROLL NAVY

(name/nom)

AIR FORCE
(name/nom)

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