The First World War Monuments and Memorials in the countries of the Commonwealth презентация

the Commonwealth

by Stella Abramyan
8C
School № 29 “Harmoney”
Teacher M.A. Gryazeva

to honour the men and women of Victoria who served in World War I. It is one of the largest war memorials in Australia. Once a year, on 11 November at 11 a.m. (Remembrance Day), a ray of sunlight shines through an aperture in the roof to light up the word "Love" in the inscription. Beneath the sanctuary lies the crypt, which contains a bronze statue of a soldier father and son.

Shrine of Remembrance

men from the town fought in the WWI. Many volunteered to escape working in the coal mine. They believed the fighting would be over within months, instead they were away foe years and over 300 never came home- a devastating loss for a town of its size.

Tredegar War Memorial
(Tredegar, Wales, UK)

of the National military memorial in Ottawa, Canada . In a grave the remains of the unknown soldier who died during World War I are. They were transported from France on May 25, 2000. On May 28, 2000 the soldier were reburied with honor. The Canadian Tomb of the Unknown Soldier represents 27 500 soldiers who died in World War I and had no own graves.
There are nine memorials devoted to the Canadian soldiers in France and Belgium as well. On places of the major battles of the Canadian troops memorial complexes are built.

 

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (Ottawa, Canada)

Memorial was dedicated in commemoration of the First World War in 1932. The memorial also officially remembers the New Zealanders who gave their lives in the South African Boer War, World War II and the wars in Korea, Malaysia and Vietnam. The War Memorial consists of the War Memorial Carillon, the Hall of Memories, and an unknown New Zealand soldier interred in a tomb, constructed in 2004 in front of the Hall of Memories. Four Rolls of Honor bear the names and ranks of 28,654 New Zealand soldiers. 

Tomb of the Unknown Soldier has appeared. For the reburial remains of one of four anonymous soldiers buried at military cemeteries in France were chosen. The soldier's remains were brought to America by the military cruiser  on November 11, 1921,. This soldier was posthumously awarded the highest military award of the USA – "Honor medal".
Words are inscribed   on his tombstone: "Here rest in honored glory an American soldier unknown but to God ".

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier (Arlington cemetery, Washington, USA) (1921)

World War I ended, Kansas City leaders formed the Liberty Memorial Association (LMA) to create a lasting monument to the men and women who had served in the war. In 1919, the LMA and citizens of Kansas City raised more than $2.5 million in just 10 days. This staggering accomplishment reflected the passion of public sentiment for the Great War that had dramatically changed the world.

Jagger as a memorial of the First World War. It is currently located in Hyde Park in the city of London. The memorial is the location of the plinths of the Gunner and the Officer in the Stoneheart Trilogy.

 Guards Division War Memorial

The Guards Memorial, also known as the Guards Division War Memorial, is an outdoor war memorial located on the west side of Horse Guards Road, opposite the Horse Guards Parade in London, United Kingdom. It commemorates the war dead from the Guards Division and related units during the First World War, and of the Household Division in the Second World War and other conflicts since 1918.

War Memorials in London

participated in wars involving the Commonwealth of Australia. The memorial includes the archive, a garden of sculptures, the gallery, the library and an extensive national military museum. The Australian War Memorial was opened in 1941, and is widely regarded as one of the most significant memorials of its type in the world.
On walls of a colonnade names of Australian servicemen are inscribed. In the hall there is a Tomb of the Unknown Soldier and other monuments.

Nele Azevedo. 5,000 little ice figurines were arranged on the steps in Birmingham’s Chamberlain Square to commemorate the men and women (not only soldiers) who lost their lives in World War I. The melting, ghostly figures, placed by volunteers, created a truly haunting image, and they were crowned by a red figure that seemed to drip a trail of blood down the steps.

“Minimum Monument”

start of World War I. A massive work of art, dedicated to commonwealth servicemen and women lost a century ago, was set up in London. The evolving installation, by Paul Cummins, titled "Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red", began with the placing of a single ceramic poppy in the moat of the Tower of London. All in all 888,245 poppies were added, each representing a military fatality from World War I. The poppies were arranged to appear as a flowing sea of blood pouring from the Tower's "Weeping Window".

"Blood Swept Lands and Seas of Red"

taking Mametz Wood during the bloody Battle of the Somme on July 7, 1916. After five long days they managed to clear the woods of Germans, which cost them 4,000 deaths and casualties. This is how the 38th (Welsh) Division Memorial erected, with a defiant dragon (the Red Dragon of Wales was the division’s insignia) standing on a 10 feet plinth, facing the woods with the regimental cap badge of the South Wales Borderers carved on one side of the base.

38th (Welsh) Division Memorial

British soldiers who died in the Great War of 1914-18 and all wars that followed.

 

Every year on Remembrance Day - the Sunday closest near November 11 - the Cenotaph is the centerpiece of the Remembrance Day celebrations, when people pay tribute to those who lost their lives in the war. It is also called Armistice Day since on that day in 1918 the Germans signed the armistice that effectively ended the First World War. All citizens across the British Empire observe a two-minute long silence on 11/11 at 11 o'clock. 

monument which represents the efforts and sacrifices of the Portuguese and Mozambicans in the First World War, located in the capital city of Mozambique, Maputo.

died in the period 1914–21 in the First World War, in France,Flanders,Mesopotamia,Persia,East Africa, Gallipoli and elsewhere in the Near and the Far East, and the Third Anglo-Afghan War. 13,300 servicemen's names, including some soldiers and officers from the United Kingdom, are inscribed on the gate

India Gate

Expeditionary Force members killed during the First World War

The Battle of Vimy Ridge was the first occasion on which all four divisions of the Canadian Expeditionary Force participated in a battle as a cohesive formation, and it became a Canadian national symbol of achievement and sacrifice.

The project took designer Walter Seymour Allward eleven years to see built.

Canadian National Vimy Memorial

remain
To face the naked days
In silent fortitude,
Through perils and dismays
Renewed and re-renewed.
Though all we made depart,
The old Commandments stand: --
"In patience keep your heart,
In strength lift up your hand."

Rudyard Kipling

"For All We Have And Are"
1914
For all we have and are,
For all our children's fate,
Stand up and take the war.
The Hun is at the gate!
Our world has passed away,
In wantonness o'erthrown.
There is nothing left to-day
But steel and fire and stone!

Though all we knew depart,
The old Commandments stand: --
"In courage keep your heart,
In strength lift up your hand."

Once more we hear the word
That sickened earth of old: --
"No law except the Sword
Unsheathed and uncontrolled."
Once more it knits mankind,
Once more the nations go
To meet and break and bind
A crazed and driven foe.