Pembroke War Memorial
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)
Street view
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