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Description: | Concept: commemorative, architecture, military personnel, emblems, historical reference, literature Description: whole: the three images are positioned in the upper left, down the right edge, and in the lower centre. The title and text are separate and placed in the centre, in red and in brown. image: a depiction of St. John's Cathedral in 's-Hertogenbosch. The other images are depictions of a clock tower, and of the city's coat of arms. text: ON THE TWENTY-SEVENTH DAY OF THE TENTH MONTH IN THE YEAR OF OUR LORD NINETEEN HUNDRED AND FORTY-FOUR; IN THE SIXTH YEAR OF THE SECOND GREAT WAR, WHICH BROUGHT UNIVERSAL MISERY OVER THE WORLD; ONLY THIRTY YEARS AFTER THE BEGINNING OF THE FIRST GREAT WAR; AFTER FOUR AND A HALF YEARS OF OCCUPATION OF THE NETHERLANDS BY THE GERMAN USURPERS, WHO HAD LOST THEIR FAITH IN GOD AND PUT THEIR TRUST IN THEIR OWN HUMAN POWER, PRESSING WESTWARDS LIKE THEIR HEATHEN FOREFATHERS HAD DONE FIFTEEN CENTURIES BEFORE; ABOUT ONE HUNDRED DAYS AFTER THE INVINCIBLE ARMIES OF THE ALLIED PEOPLES FROM BEYOND THE ROLLING WAVES SET FOOT ON THE CONTINENTAL SOIL OF EUROPE IN THE ANCIENT NORMANDY, REALISING THE WORDS OF THE WORLD'S BRIGHTEST STAR IN THE POETICAL SKY OF ENGLAND, THE IMMORTAL WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE: NOW ALL THE YOUTH OF ENGLAND ARE ON FIRE, AND SILKEN DALLIANCE IN THE WARDROBE LIES; NOW THRIVE THE ARMOURERS, AND HONOUR'S THOUGHT REIGNS SOLELY IN THE BREAST OF EVERY MAN; THE GALLANT BRITONS OF THE FIFTY-THIRD WELSH DIVISION, WHO DERIVE THEIR NAME FROM THE MOUNTAINOUS CELTIC COUNTRY IN THE WEST OF ENGLAND, UNDER THEIR GLORIOUS COMMANDER GENERAL ROSS REACHED 'S-HERTOGENBOSCH, THE CAPITAL OF THE PROVINCE OF NOORD-BRABANT IN THE LOW COUNTRIES, AND IN THE SPACE OF FIVE DAYS THEY LIBERATED THE TOWN FROM THE HEINOUS YOKE OF THE GERMAN OPPRESSORS, THUS RETURNING LIBERTY AND LIFE, RIGHT AND JUSTICE. ON THE ANNIVERSARY OF THIS MEMORABLE DAY THE CITIZENS OF 'S-HERTOGENBOSCH WANT TO EXPRESS THEIR EVERLASTING GRATEFULNESS BY OFFERING THE ARMS OF THE CITY IN SILVER TO THE BRAVE FIFTY-THIRD WELSH DIVISION AND A COPY OF THIS RECORD TO EACH MAN PRESENT HERE, RESPECTFULLY REMEMBERING THOSE OF THEM WHO IN THE SACRIFICE OF THEIR LIVES - FINDING ACCORDING TO THE SOLDIER-POET'S WORDS 'SOME CORNER OF A FOREIGN FIELD THAT IS FOR EVER ENGLAND' - HAVE COME TO BELONG TO THEM THROUGH THE MYSTIC BONDS OF DEATH. GOD BLESS THEM ALL. 'S-HERTOGENBOSCH, OCTOBER 27 TH. 1945 FOR THE CITIZENS OF 'S-HERTOGENBOSCH THE BURGOMASTER [signature] ANDRE VERHORST JOEP NANINCK SCR. Object: cathedral, tower, coat of arms | Subjects: | poster | Source: | Vads | Creator: | Artist: Verhorst, Andre & Naninck, Joep Publisher/Sponsor: City of S-Hertogenbosch Associated Person: Shakespeare, William Associated Person: Brooke, Rupert | Identifier: | http://www.vads.ac.uk/large.php?uid=2646... | Go to resource |
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