3840 x 5760 px | 32,5 x 48,8 cm | 12,8 x 19,2 inches | 300dpi
Aufnahmedatum:
18. September 2020
Ort:
Gentsesteenweg 149, 8500 Kortrijk, West Flanders, Belgium, Europe
Weitere Informationen:
The Courtrai Memorial is a Dominion of Newfoundland war memorial in Kortrijk (formerly referred to as Courtrai), Belgium that commemorates the actions of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment during the final months of World War I including the Regiment's actions in the Hundred Days Offensive and particularly the 1918 Battle of Courtrai. The Courtrai Memorial is one of five erected in Europe by the Newfoundland government following the First World War. It stands as the sole monument to the Newfoundlanders actions in Belgium with four more in France at Beaumont-Hamel, Gueudecourt, Masnieres as well as Monchy-le-Preux. A sixth caribou, a gift from Major William Howe Greene, OBE, who served with the Newfoundlanders during the war stands in Bowring Park in St. John's, Newfoundland, Canada.[6]. The memorials are all centrally identical, featuring a bronze statue of the emblem of the Royal Newfoundland Regiment, a caribou, designed by British sculptor Basil Gotto. The caribou, standing atop a cairn of Newfoundland granite, faces the direction the Newfoundlanders faced toward the enemy during the battle. A spot the banks of the Lys/Leie River in the northeast of Kortrijk, where the Newfoundlanders landed in the early morning hours of August 20th, 1918 was chosen for the memorial at Kortrijk. There, in the centre of a small park embedded with plants native to Newfoundland and Labrador the memorial caribou stands on its Newfoundland granite cairn bearing bronze plaque that reads: "COURTRAI, 1918". The park and memorial can be found situated on the northwest side of the road to Ghent - the N43 Road/Gentsesteenweg, about 25 metres from its intersection with the Kortrijk 'Ringlaan' periphery road, the R8/N395b.
