| The Cenotaph | |
|---|---|
| South Africa | |
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| For soldiers who died in World War I, World War II and the Korean War | |
| Unveiled | 3 August 1924 |
| Location | 33°55′07″S 18°25′36″E / 33.9187°S 18.4268°E |
| Designed by | Vernon March |
To the immortal honour of the South Africans who made the supreme sacrifice in the Great War This memorial is dedicated in proud and grateful recognition by their countrymen Sea and Air Their name liveth for evermore 1914–1918 The Second world war 1939–1945 The Korean war 1950–1953 | |
The Cenotaph is a war memorial on Heerengracht Street in Cape Town. The city's annual Remembrance Day ceremonies are held there.[1][2][3] It is classified as a public memorial and as such is subject to protection in terms of heritage legislation administered by Heritage Western Cape, the provincial heritage resources authority of the Western Cape province of South Africa.[4]
- ^ Bickford-Smith, Vivian; van Heyningen, Elizabeth; Worden, Nigel (1999). Cape Town in the Twentieth Century: An Illustrated Social History. New Africa Books. p. 75. ISBN 9780864863843. Retrieved 2 August 2014.
- ^ O'Donoghue, Bridget (March 2009). "Audit of Sculptures, Memorials and Monuments – 2.B.14 The Cenotaph War Memorial" (PDF). pp. 80–84, 142. Archived from the original (PDF) on 7 March 2014. Retrieved 3 August 2014.
- ^ Binckes, Helen Euphrosyne Constance (2010). South African public memorials of World War One. A historical view of processes in public memorialisation through their symbolic content, with particular reference to Cape Town (PDF) (M.A.). University of Cape Town. pp. 127–137. Archived from the original (PDF) on 8 August 2014. Retrieved 3 August 2014.
- ^ Section 37, National Heritage Resources Act, Act 25 of 1999, Government Notice 502, South African Government Gazette, vol 406, No. 19974 of 28 April 1999