Cenotaph War Memorial, Galle Face Green, Colombo, Sri Lanka

Cenotaph War Memorial, Galle Face Green, Colombo, Sri Lanka

The Cenotaph War Memorial built in the 1920s to remember both Ceylonese and Europeans from Ceylon who were killed in the World War I, was constructed at the Galle Face Green. Then it was dismantled and re-erected at Victoria Park (now Viharamahadevi Park), during World War II after fears that the Japanese might use it as a marker to direct their artillery. Date: circa 1930

  • Product Code
  • ILEA000637155
  • Registered date
  • 1930/12/31 00:00:00
  • Credit
  • Mary Evans / Grenville Collins Postcard Collection / Kyodo News Images
  • Media source
  • Copyright (c) Mary Evans Picture Library 2008
  • Media size
  • 5160 × 3361 pixel
  • Resolution
  • 300 dpi
  • Deployment size
  • 2.05(MB)*
  • Special instruction
  • **The text may be generated by an automatic translation system**

*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.

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