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In 1911, National Steel Car Limited
opened its Hamilton Plant to produce rail cars, and
since that time has employed many thousands of Hamiltonians.
This memorial commemorates the lives of 87 employees
that went to war and lost their lives during World Wars
I and II and during the Korean War.
A motif encircling the memorial is carved in a 4 tonne
block of stone. It depicts the transition of workers
from industry to war and back to industry. The carving
of this piece alone, using both modern air tools and
traditional chisel and maul, took four weeks.
Full size drawings of the historic "Sword of Sacrifice",
to be carved on the cross on the face of the memorial,
were provided by the Commonwealth War Graves Commission,
Maidenhead, England. This attention to detail was to
comply with the directive that the memorial was to be
historically correct. This also applied to the Army,
Navy, and Air Force emblems.
A list of names and rank of those killed in action was
prepared and transferred to patterns, utilizing traditional
script, for carving into panels on the memorial.
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