War Memorial Green

Image: © Simon Carey Taken: 26 Aug 2012

Small garden of remembrance located at the junction of Bridge Street and South Way. There are three memorials here from left to right; The Royal Canadian Engineers memorial, Newhaven Town memorial and Newhaven Transport Memorial. The Canadian memorial was privately financed by a group of Canadian engineers to remember 27 of their comrades who embarked on the ill fated Dieppe raid in August 1942 and never returned. It was erected in 1977 and has since come to be seen as a representation of all Canadian soldiers who served at Dieppe and elsewhere. The Newhaven Town War memorial was originally located at the junction of Fort Road, Chapel Street and South road and moved to this location in 2005. Originally remembering those lost in the First World War it had 90 names added from those who never returned during the Second in 2007. The last memorial on the right is the Newhaven Transport Memorial remembering those who served the ships that supplied the British Army across the Channel during the First World War of whom 99 lost their lives. The memorial was erected in 1920 at the junction of Meeching Road and Dacre Road then moved to Riverside during the 1970s during the development of South Way. When the West Quay was partially redeveloped in the 1990s it was moved here.

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