Newfoundland Regiment Memorial of a bronze caribou at Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial in northern France designed by Gotto.
'Beaumont-Hamel Memorial Park was establish in memory of Newfoundlanders who fell in the First World War. Beaumont-Hamel was attacked by the 29th Division on 1 July 1916 and although some units reached it, the village was not taken. It was finally captured by the 51st (Highland) and 63rd (Royal Naval) Divisions on the following 13 November. The 29th Division included the 1st Battalion of the Newfoundland Regiment, as it was then called. The attack on Beaumont-Hamel in July 1916 was the first severe engagement of the regiment, and the most costly. On the first day of the Battle of the Somme, no unit suffered heavier losses than the Newfoundland Regiment which had gone into action 801 strong. The roll call the next day revealed that the final figures were 233 killed or dead of wounds, 386 wounded, and 91 missing. The memorial itself stands at the highest point of the park and consists of a great caribou cast in bronze, emblem of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment. At the base, three tablets of bronze carry the names of over 800 members of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, the Newfoundland Royal Naval Reserve and the Newfoundland Mercantile Marine, who gave their lives in the First World War and who have no known grave. The memorial designed by Cochius, with sculpture by Basil Gotto. It was unveiled by Earl Haig on 7 June 1925.' - CWGC website
Size: 2911px × 4367px
Location: Beaumont-Hamel Newfoundland Memorial situated 9 kilometres directly north of the town of Albert,
Photo credit: © Matthew Barnes / ww1 / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
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