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cenotaph
/ˈsɛn.ə.tæf/
Noun
A monument erected to honour the dead whose bodies lie elsewhere; especially members of the armed forces who died in battle.
[Source: Wiktionary]
a monument built to honor soldiers who died in a war
[Source: WordNet]
I was walking along an unfamiliar road and came across a cenotaph to the local war dead. It was of a common format: a square column with the dates 1914-1918 engraved on one face and 1939-1945 engraved on another Link
The Remembrance Day services begin at 10:45 a.m. Thursday, November 11 at the cenotaph in Hope Memorial Park. Link
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