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The Cross of Sacrifice Historical Markers
The Cross of Sacrifice was designed in 1918 by Sir Reginald Blomfield and is present in Commonwealth war cemeteries containing 40 or more graves. Erected by the Imperial War Graves Commission (now the Commonwealth War Graves Commission) or by public subcription, the Cross of Sacrifice is also found as public non-burial war memorial cenotaphs. The sword is made in bronze and is pointed downwards. In military tradition and classical art, when the sword is in an upward direction is it the symbol for war or that one was under attack. When the sword is in a downward position, like it is on the Cross of Sacrifice, it is symbolizing a time of peace. This series includes war memorial crosses not necessarily of the Blomfield design, but not the modern Fallen Soldier Battlefield Cross (boots, rifle, helmet).
By Darren Jefferson Clay, July 16, 2022
78 Officers and Men of The Royal Air Force who lost their lives while training in Montgomery, AL Marker
1 ► Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery — Burial Site of Royal Air Force Trainee Pilots —  |
| 2 ► Alabama, Montgomery County, Montgomery — Royal Air Force Burial Ground — |
| 3 ► Virginia, Arlington County, Arlington, Fort Myer — Canadian Cross of Sacrifice — WW I / WW II / Korea — |
| 4 ► Belgium, Vlaanderen, West-Vlaanderen, Zonnebeke, Passendale — Flandern I-stellung — 2014-18 — 100 jaar Groote Oorlog — |
| 5 ► Belgium, Vlaanderen, West-Vlaanderen, Zonnebeke, Passendale — Tyne Cot Cemetery — The Tyne Cot Memorial — |
| 6 ► Belgium, Vlaanderen, West-Vlaanderen, Zonnebeke, Passendale — Tyne Cot Cemetery — 2014-18 — 100 jaar Groote Oorlog — |
| 7 ► Belgium, Vlaanderen, West-Vlaanderen, Zonnebeke, Passendale — Tyne Cot Cemetery & Memorial — Commonwealth War Graves — Welcome to the Commonwealth War Graves Commission — |
| 8 ► Belgium, Vlaanderen, West-Vlaanderen, Zonnebeke, Passendale — Tyne Cot Cemetery & Memorial — Commonwealth War Graves — Welkom bij de Commonwealth War Graves Commission — |
| 9 ► Newfoundland and Labrador, CensusDiv 6 - Central Nfld-Grand Falls-Windsor, Gander — Arrow Air Crash — The Silent Witness Memorial — Cross of Sacrifice — |
| 10 ► Ontario, Lanark County, Smiths Falls — War Memorial — Lest We Forget — "They Gave Their To-day For Our To-morrow" — |
| 11 ► Ontario, Niagara Region, St. Catharines — St. Catharines Cenotaph — |
| 12 ► Ontario, Ottawa — Cross of Sacrifice — |
| 13 ► Ontario, Ottawa — Cross of Sacrifice / Croix du Sacrifice — |
| 14 ► Ontario, Peel Region, Mississauga, Port Credit — Mississauga Remembers — |
| 15 ► Québec, Capitale-Nationale, Québec, Vieux-Québec-Cap-Blanc-colline Parlementaire — In Memory of Our Fallen Soldiers — La mémoire des combattants — |
| 16 ► France, Hauts-de-France, Somme, Thiepval — Construction of the Thiepval Memorial and Franco-British Cemetery — |
| 17 ► France, Hauts-de-France, Somme, Thiepval — Imperial War Graves Commission — |
| 18 ► Kenya, Kisumu, Kisumu — Kenya in the Second World War — |
| 19 ► United Kingdom, England, Buckinghamshire, Marlow — Marlow War Memorial — |
| 20 ► United Kingdom, England, Redcar and Cleveland, Guisborough — The War Memorial - Guisborough — |