IN MEMORY
OF
MARGOT DAVIES, M.B.E.
MARGOT, WHO LEFT NEWFOUNDLAND AT AN EARLY AGE, WAS A
FRIEND TO THOUSANDS OF NEWFOUNDLAND SERVICEMEN WHO
SERVED OVERSEAS DURING WORLD WAR II
HER WEEKLY BROADCAST "CALLING FROM BRITIAN TO
NEWFOUNDLAND," THROUGH THE FACILITIES OF THE BRITISH
BROADCASTING CORPORATION, WHICH COMMENCED SHORTLY AFTER
THE ARRIVAL OF THE FIRST NEWFOUNDLAND TROOPS IN ENGLAND
AND CONTINUED UNTIL A FEW WEEKS PRIOR TO HER SAD DEMISE
ENDEARED HER TO THE PEOPLE OF NEWFOUNDLAND
LORD GRANT THAT WE MAY SEEK RATHER TO COMFORT
THEN TO BE COMFORTED
THAT WHERE THERE IS SADNESS WE MAY BRING JOY
THAT WHERE THERE IS DESPAIR WE MAY BRING HOPE
AND WHERE THERE ARE SHADOWS WE MAY BRING THY LIGHT.
ERECTED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF NEWFOUNDLAND AND LABRADOR
AND BY PRIVATE AND PUBLIC CONTRIBUTIONS
MEMORIAL FUND INSTITUTED BY EX-GUNNER MAXWELL LITTLE JOHN
ROYAL ARTILLERY
