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Lévis Memorial Obelisk

Municipality/Province: Lévis, QC

Memorial number: 24038-010

Type: Granite obelisk and four weapons

Address: Monseigneur-Bourget Street & Champagnat Street East

Location: Peace park

GPS coordinates: Lat: 46.8186541   Long: -71.1601864

Submitted by: Gaetan Paquet

Surrounded by four Second World War-era field guns from the 6th Light Artillery Regiment, this obelisk was erected by a monument committee in 1946 consisting of many distinguished local citizens. The memorial was unveiled on 15 September 1946 and is dedicated to the forty-four local soldiers killed during the First and Second World Wars.


Inscription found on memorial

[côté est sur le muret]

CE MUR EST UN DON DU CERCLE DES VOYAGEURS DE COMMERCE DE LEVIS INCORPORE

[côté est] PINTENDRE, ST. NICOLAS, CHAMY

[côté ouest]

ST. JEAN-CHRYSOSTOME, BREAKYVILLE, LEVIS

[côté nord]

ST. REDEMPTEUR, ST. DAVID, LAUZON

[côté sud]

ST. LAMBERT, ST. HENRI, ST. ROMUALD

[côté nord-ouest]

ST. ETIENNE

[côté sud-ouest]

ST. TELESPHORE

[côté est du dé du piédestal (soldats honorés)]

ABBE OMER BEGIN, MARC AURELE ROY, PAUL GARANT, LAVAL TURGEON, NAZAIRE LEVEILLE, JEAN BAQUET-LAMONTAGNE, THEODORE PELLETIER, LOUIS CAUCHY, JOSEPH DOMINIQUE, YVES HAMEL, THOMAS LEVESQUE

D.J. FORTIN MFG, ST. DAVID CO. LEVIS

[côté ouest du dé du piédestal]

MAURICE BOUTIN, ALEXANDRE FONTAINE, SYLVIO DUBOIS, DONAT BEAURIVAGE, ELIE DESBIENS, ALYRE CARRIER, GERARD BUSSIERES, HONORIUS BOURGET, REAL PLANTE, REAL LAMBERT, ANTONIO COUTURE

[côté nord du dé du piédestal]

CHARLES-HENRI OUELLET, GUY LAFLAMME, BERTIE ESMOND, HUGH ANDERSON, VINCENT MORIN, CYRILLE GIGUERE, PAUL HENRI GAGNON, JEAN-MARIE DUBE, STANISLAS BERNIER, LEVI OULLET, EDMOND CAMIRE

[côté sud du dé du piédestal]

PAUL BOUTIN, MAURICE PERUSSE, JULES CHOUINARD, OVILA MORIN, MARC CHABOT, PIERRE A. DESROCHERS, MAURICE GAGNON, PATRICK MURPHY, ROSAIRE DROUIN, ROSAIRE LEMIEUX, ROBERT HUOT

[base de l'obélisque]

HOMMAGE AUX FILS DU COMTE DE LEVIS MORTS POUR LA PATRIE

1914-1918 1939-1945

[plaque]

LE COMITE DU MONUMENT SOUVENIR 1946

MM. J. DUMONT, J.N. TURGEON, L.J. ROY, A. CARON, P.E. ASSELIN, ANT. ROY, MMES E. GRAVEL, J. SCOTT, A. LEVESQUE, MM. A. PICHARD, P.E. BEGIN, H. GELLY, J.C. LAPOINTE, G. GOSSELIN, J. DEBILLY

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