New lighting at National War Memorial reflects 1924 design
- News Staff
- Jul 5
- 1 min read

New lighting has been installed at the National War Memorial in St. John’s. The lights are designed and created based on the original light globes that would have been in place when the Memorial was first constructed in 1924.
The replacement of the modern globes are to ensure appropriate historical interpretation at the site.
Now replicated on site at the National War Memorial, the globes are in the shape of flames which tie directly to Lieutenant-Colonel Thomas Nangle’s vision for the site, which was based on Lieutenant-Colonel John McCrae’s poem In Flanders Fields.
The site is the only National War Memorial and the only other tomb of the unknown solider outside of Ottawa. It is also a National Historic Site and a Provincial Historic Site.
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