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===Canadian Corner=== [[File:Canadian Corner.jpg|thumb|The Memorial Cross which stands in Canadian Corner]] In the corner of All Saints' Church sits Canadian Corner. This is a First World War memorial that marks where 182 soldiers who died being treated at Orpington Hospital are buried. The name derives from the fact 88 of those buried are Canadians. Canadian Corner is unique in that its design resembles that of First World War Cemeteries found in France & Belgium, with the text on the memorial suggesting that the Memorial Cross was the first outside of the Western Front, as the English public were interested in how the war cemeteries looked.{{citation needed|date=September 2020}} The Memorial Cross in Canadian Corner was unveiled in 1921 in the presence of the High Commissioner for Canada.<ref name="wordpress">{{cite web|url=https://allsaintsorpington.wordpress.com/about/churchyard/canadian-corner/|publisher=allsaintsorpington.wordpress.com|title=Canadian Corner {{pipe}} All Saints' Church Orpington|date=15 July 2013|access-date=13 January 2017|archive-date=23 November 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161123154040/https://allsaintsorpington.wordpress.com/about/churchyard/canadian-corner/|url-status=live}}</ref> The automatic plunger used to release the Union flag which hid the Cross was the same used by [[George V]] during the unveiling of [[The Cenotaph, Whitehall|The Cenotaph]] a year earlier. The Memorial Cross in Canadian Corner was the first Canadian Memorial unveiled in the UK.<ref name="wordpress"/>
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