The Gallipoli Newfoundland Memorial is a war memorial that commemorates the actions of the

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during the Gallipoli campaign, of

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. Located at the southwest end of the

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, near

Suvla Bay file:Suvla from Battleship Hill.jpg, View of Suvla from Battleship Hill Suvla () is a bay on the Aegean Sea, Aegean coast of the Gallipoli peninsula in European Turkey, south of the Gulf of Saros. On 6 August 1915, it was the site for the Landi ...

the memorial commemorates the participation of the

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in the landing at Suvla Bay on 20 September 1915 with the 29th Division.

Memorial

The memorial is one of six erected in Europe by the Newfoundland government following the First World War. Four were erected in France at

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, Masnières and

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and the fifth is at Courtrai/Kortrijk in Belgium. A sixth monument, a gift from Major William Howe Greene, OBE, who served with the Newfoundlanders during the war stands in Bowring Park in

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. The memorials feature are all centrally identical, featuring the emblem of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, the

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, cast in bronze, as designed by British sculptor

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. The Gallipoli Memorial is situated 25 metres northwest of

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in Gallipoli, which is the resting place for eight Royal Newfoundland Regiment soldiers.

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External links

Gallipoli Newfoundland Memorial

Trail of the Caribou finished with last piece placed on Gallipoli Peninsula
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