The memorial is on the Walmer Golf Course
33 deg 58 min 28 sec S,25 deg 14 min 29 sec E
Significance
In celebration of the signing of the Peace of Versailles. (28 June 1919).
Monument arose from the Walmer Bonfire celebration that took place on 19 July 1919 on the golf-course.
From November the previous year, the citizens of Walmer had been collecting brushwood for this occasion. There was a pile 12 feet high and 106 feet in diameter with two long range guns and a howitzer shaped out of brushwood and topped with an effigy of a German soldier, making the whole 27 feet in height. The burning symbolised the destruction of German militarism and as the wood burned a concrete column emerged inscribed with the single word "PAX".
The column remains as a permanent memorial, though now forgotten and neglected.
Source: From the book - "Port Elizabeth: A social chronicle to the end of 1945" by Margaret Harridene
Published by E. H. Walton Packaging (Pty) Ltd, Port Elizabeth, 1996