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Before 1923, the site where the Cenotaph now stands was occupied by an ornate drinking fountain which was erected in 1867 to mark the completion of the Water Works in 1866. That drinking fountain, no longer functional, now stands on the green opposite St. Rose's High School in Church Street, just a
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observance took place at the Church Street Monument on 11 November 1923. On the four faces of the base of the Cenotaph are inscribed the four words - Devotion, Humanity, Fortitude, and Sacrifice.
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or Remembrance Sunday, and observed on the first or second Sunday of November. Since 1956, it was internationally agreed to observe Remembrance Day on the second Sunday of November.
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The Cenotaph is a national memorial to Guyanese soldiers who lost their lives in the
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After the end of the Second World War in 1945, Armistice Day was renamed
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The Cenotaph was unveiled on August 14, 1923, by the then Governor,
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Georgetown
Guyana
Cenotaph
war memorial
Georgetown, Guyana
Graeme Thomson
Armistice Day
First
Second World Wars
Egypt
France
Belgium
East Africa
Remembrance Day
"November"
"History This Week"
"Granger calls for 'world at peace'"
"President lauds veterans"
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Guyana
Airports
Cheddi Jagan
Eugene Correia
Kaieteur
Aishalton
Annai
Apoteri

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