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Monument de Terre Neuve du Champ de Bataille de Masnières

Newfoundland Battlefield Memorial

Basil Gotto
c. 1925

Masnières / Monument de Terre Neuve du Champ de Bataille de Masnières

Description

Bronze statue of a bronze caribou, the emblem of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, standing atop a cairn of Newfoundland granite. The sturdy animal throws its head forward in the direction of Cambrai, letting out an imaginary slap from its mouth. It shows the extreme advancement of the Canadians of Newfoundland during the Battle of Cambrai in November 1917.

The memorial is one of six memorials erected by the Newfoundland government following the First World War. Five were erected in Beaumont-Hamel, Gueudecourt, Monchy-le-Preux in France, in Kortrijk in Belgium and the sixth at Bowring Park in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada. The memorials are all centrally identical.

Masnières - Monument de Terre Neuve du Champ de Bataille de Masnières

Sculptor

Basil Gotto (1866 - 1954), British sculptor and medallist.

Sources & Information

e-Monumen.net, Monumen.
Université de Lille, Les monuments aux morts, France-Belgique.
Wikipedia, Masnières Newfoundland Memorial.
Veterans Affairs Canada, Trail of the Caribou and Design and Construction.
Tourisme Cambrésis, Monuments remarquables - musées.

Locatie (N 50°7'24" - E 3°12'42") (Satellite view: Google Maps)

Item Code: frnp073; Photograph: 17 October 2017
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