Commemorations: Miscellaneous

Victory Parade, Job Street, St. John's, 1919

Jensen Camp Float driven by Royal Newfoundland Regiment soldiers in uniform. Non-uniformed men are passengers.
Courtesy of The Rooms Provincial Archives Division (E 42-4), St. John's, NL.

Victory Parade, Job Street, St. John's, 1919

Women and children on float are dressed as angels.
Courtesy of The Rooms Provincial Archives Division (E 42-57), St. John's, NL.

Victory Parade Float, Job Street, St. John's, 1919

Royal Newfoundland Regiment soldiers in uniform are on horse drawn float showing guns and helmets.
Courtesy of The Rooms Provincial Archives Division (E 43-44), St. John's, NL.

HMS Briton, Victory Parade, Job Street, St. John's, 1919

Royal Naval Reserve members in uniform aboard HMS Briton horse drawn float.
Courtesy of The Rooms Provincial Archives Division (E 48-39), St. John's, NL.

Newfoundland Highlanders in Memorial Day Parade, St. John's, July, 1921

No other information available.
Courtesy of The Rooms Provincial Archives Division (NA 3474), St. John's, NL.

Unveiling of The Fighting Newfoundlander memorial at Bowring Park, St. John's, September 13, 1922

No other information available.
Courtesy of The Rooms Provincial Archives Division (E 8-55), St. John's, NL.

The Fighting Newfoundlander, Bowring Park, St. John's, n.d.

In 1918, Corporal Thomas Pittman, present on the front lines during the Battle of Beaummont Hamel, posed for this statue which was sculpted by Captain Basil Gotto. The monument was unveiled on September 13, 1922 in Bowring Park as a memorial to the Newfoundland soldiers who fought in World War I. The inscription on the base of the statue reads, "The Fighting Newfoundlander. Presented to the city of St. John's by the Hon. Edgar R. Bowring".

Photograph courtesy of The Rooms Provincial Archives Division (F 10-6), St. John's, NL. Description based on information found on back of photograph and the Bowring Park Foundation web site.

Memorial University College, Parade Street, St. John's, 1923

Memorial University College was officially opened on September 15, 1925. It was built as a memorial to honor Newfoundlanders who were killed in the Great War.
Courtesy of The Rooms Provincial Archives Division (NA 3997), St. John's, NL.

Memorial University College, Parade Street, St. John's, 1924

No other information available.
Courtesy of The Rooms Provincial Archives Division (NA 3996), St. John's, NL.

Opening of Beaumont Hamel Park, France, June 7, 1925

Taken by Central Press Photos Ltd. (London, England).
Courtesy of The Rooms Provincial Archives Division (NA 3106), St. John's, NL.

Field Marshal Earl Haig and Lt. Col. Thomas Nangle at War Memorial to the Missing, Beaumont Hamel Park, France, June 7, 1925

Courtesy of The Rooms Provincial Archives Division (NA 3103), St. John's, NL.

Field Marshal Earl Haig and Lt. Col. Thomas Nangle at opening of Beaumont Hamel Park, France, June 7, 1925

No other information available.
Courtesy of The Rooms Provincial Archives Division (NA 3108), St. John's, NL.

Laying a wreath at Beaumont Hamel Park, France, July, 1925

No other information available.
Courtesy of The Rooms Provincial Archives Division (NA 3104), St. John's, NL.

Unveiling the memorial at Beaumont Hamel Park, France, June 7, 1925

No other information available.
Courtesy of The Rooms Provincial Archives Division (NA 3102), St. John's, NL.

Victor Gordon, High Commissioner at Beaumont Hamel, France, July, 1926

Sir William Lamond Allardyce, Elsie Elizabeth Allardyce and Captain Victor Gordon, High Commissioner for Newfoundland in front of base of Newfoundland War Memorial, Beaumont Hamel.
Courtesy of The Rooms Provincial Archives Division (A 11-167), St. John's, NL.

King's and Regimental Colours Royal Newfoundland Regiment at Government House, 1921

Item consists of Published in The Veteran, April 1921.
Courtesy of The Rooms Provincial Archives Division (F 16-11), St. John's, NL.

War Memorial, Grand Falls-Windsor, n.d.

No other information available.
Courtesy of The Rooms Provincial Archives Division (A 37-56), St. John's, NL.

War Memorial, Grand Bank, n.d.

No other information available.
Courtesy of The Rooms Provincial Archives Division (NA 6088), St. John's, NL.

Newfoundland War Memorial, Courtrai, Belgium, July 1938

No other information available.
Courtesy of The Rooms Provincial Archives Division (B 1-87), St. John's, NL.

Service at the Sergeants' War Memorial, St. John's, n.d.

No other information available.
Courtesy of The Rooms Provincial Archives Division (A 23-53), St. John's, NL.

The Loyal Orangemen's Memorial, Trinity, Trinity Bay, 1998

Photo by Jason Churchill.

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Also
Pte. James Wooldridge who fell at Monchy.
Pte. Frank Morris who fell in France.
Pte. Fred C. Somerton who fell at Gallipoli.
Pte. Wilfred Barbour who fell in France.
Pte. Robert Maidment who fell in France.

Erected by L.O.A.12.R.S.C.4 R.B.P. 941.
To the memory of those who laid down their lives for King and Country in the Great War 1914 - 1918.
Pte. Stephen C. Morris who fell at Ypres Salient.
Pte. Arthur E. W. Maidment who fell at Monchy.
Pte. Charles E. Cranger who fell at Cambrai.
Walter J. Spurrell R.N.R.
Pte. Thomas J. Eustace killed in France.

Also
Charles Rowe R.N.R. drowned.
Walter Mesh R.N.R. drowned.
Pte. Arthur Hurdle who fell in France.
Pte. Harold Morris who fell in France.
Pte. Fred Lucas who fell in France.