Regimental Monuments
As part of the celebrations of the 50th anniversary of VE Day, a special celebrations committee in the City of Doetinchem, The Netherlands, recommended that the city park be renamed in honour of Lieutenant Colonel Mark Tennant and that a monument for the Calgary Highlanders who were killed in the fighting there be established. Tennant distinguished himself during the battle for Doetinchem where the Highlanders fought to clear the city between 1 and 3 April 1945.
As a measure of thanks on the 50th anniversary of Holland's liberation, the City of Doetinchem named the park "Mark Tennantplantsoen – Een Canadese bevrijder" – "Mark Tennant Park, A Canadian Liberator." Trees in the park still contained shrapnel; mute evidence of the fighting that raged there in April 1945.
The Calgary Soldiers' Memorial will bear the names of all Calgary area soldiers who died in war from 1914, with separate sections for both the 10th Battalion, CEF and the Calgary Highlanders.
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