Royal Newfoundland Regiment Memorial

The Fighting Newfoundlander was unveiled in Bowring Park in St. John’s on September 13, 1922. Corporal Thomas Pittman, who had served on the front lines during the Battle of Beaumont Hamel, posed for the statue, which was sculpted by Captain Basil Gotto. A second of Gotto’s statues was installed in the park on July 1, 1928. It depicts a caribou, which is the emblem of the Newfoundland Regiment. Five other caribou statues were made and installed at battlefield parks in France and Belgium.

Inscription

THE FIGHTING
NEWFOUNDLANDER

PRESENTED TO THE CITY
OF ST.JOHN’S BY THE HON.
SIR EDGAR R. BOWRING

A TRIBUTE TO THE UNDYING
MEMORY OF THE ROYAL
NEWFOUNDLAND REGIMENT
1914-1918

Ce mémorial a été érigé en souvenir des Terre-Neuviens et Terre-Neuviennes qui ont combattu durant les deux Grandes Guerres. Le sculpteur, Basil Gotb, a pris comme modèle le caporal Thomas Pittman.

Le texte de l’inscription figure dans la section anglaise.