Caribou Memorial…
It rises in belligerent pose, with antlers as weapons raised,
Taunting the enemy, proud and confrontational, facing
Down a German advance, its rattle angry and resistant.
The bronze reindeer, rearing, wrathful and crazed,
Bucks atop a German bunker, rearing, its venom racing,
A Canadian regimental emblem, its regal bearing defiant…
Pete Ray
21st July 2025…
The brilliant Newfoundland Memorial, at Monchy-le-Preux, France, which I was fortunate to see in 2012…
The bronze caribou is the only caribou memorial not standing upon Newfoundland granite but instead is built upon the ruin of a German bunker.
It faces in the direction of a devastating German onslaught on the Battalion during World War One…
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