Chester Cenotaph
Municipality/Province: Chester, NS
Memorial number: 12009-014
Type: Bronze statue, granite base and cast iron cannons
Address: Corner of Peninsula Road and South St
Location: Public park
GPS coordinates: Lat: 44.5364214 Long: -64.2424548
Submitted by: Marilyn Gurney; Ivan Smith
This memorial was erected to honour the local war dead of the First and Second World Wars, Korea, and Afghanistan. This magnificent statue of a Nova Scotia Highland soldier was unveiled on August 4, 1922. Constructed in memory of 54 men who laid down their lives from this area in the First World War.
The design and cast were the gift of J. Massey Rhind, a Scottish-American sculptor. He began his studies under his father then attended the prestigious Royal Scottish Academy as a 15-year old prodigy and continued his studies with Jules Dalou in Lambeth, England. He continued his studies in England, then two more years in Paris and moved to New York in 1889 when he was 29. After the First World War, Rhind lived in Chester, Nova Scotia. His work in Nova Scotia includes the Halifax Grand Parade Cenotaph, New Glasgow Cenotaph, and Cornwallis Statue.
The plaque and bronze figure were cast in New York. The base and steps of were cut from one granite boulde by Wakefield Zinck.
Inscription found on memorial
[west face/face ouest]
IN MEMORY OF THE BOYS WHO
FOUGHT AND FELL IN THE WAR
1914 - 1918
[left column/colonne de gauche]
CHESTER
GEORGE BARDWELL
NEIL BROWN
MAURICE CHASE
FRANK CLEVELAND
PERCY ROY CLEVELAND
JAMES DAUPHINEE
CHARLES GRAVES
CREIGHTON HATT
FRANK HILCHEY
RODNEY LANTZ
PHILLIP MANNING
HARRIS METSNER
ARDEN MORASH
TIMOTHY MURPHY
CLYDE NAUSS
WILLIAM PULSIFER
EDWARD RAFUSE
MALCOLM SMITH
ROBERT SMITH
ZENAS WEAGLE
WILLIAM WHITFORD
BLANDFORD
FRANKLYN CLEVELAND
GORDON CLEVELAND
GRANVILLE CLEVELAND
GEORGE MURPHY
ADOLPHUS ZINCK
CHESTER BASIN
LIEUT. GEO. MACGREGOR
LAWRENCE CORBIN
[right column/colonne de droite]
NEW ROSS
CAPT. VINCENT P. MURPHY
LIEUT. ORRIN LANTZ
HARLAN BROWN
PETER DE ADDER
WILLIAM HARRIS
FRANK HILTZ
R.A. HILTZ
REGINALD H. HUTCHINSON
O. KEDDY
FRANK KEDDY
ALLEN LEVY
DAVID MCDOW
HAROLD MCGARRY
DELBERT MEISTER
OTIS MEISTER
WILLIAM REECE
ELDER T. REECE
WILLIAM SKERRY
HERBERT VEINOT
DEAN WHITE
MILL COVE
EDGAR COOLEN
REUBEN COOLEN
FOSTER JOLLYMORE
GOLD RIVER
FREDERICK HATT
THEOPHILUS SAWLER
[north face/face nord]
IN MEMORY OF
THE BOYS WHO FOUGHT
AND FELL IN THE WAR
1939 - 1945
[left column/colonne de gauche]
CHESTER
HOWARD ARMSTRONG
FENWICK GATES
WINTON COOK
ERNEST NAUSS
RICHARD MILLS
EVERETT JAMES
PURDY HOUGHTON
CARLETON GRAVES
NEW ROSS
RONALD RUSSELL
ARTHUR BAKER
RAYMOND EMENO
HERBERT VEINOT
[right column/colonne de droite]
MILL COVE
GEORGE SHATFORD
HAROLD LANGILLE
CARL COOLEN
SINCLAIR SHATFORD
CHESTER BASIN
EVERETT BORGALD
WESTERN SHORE
WILLOUGHBY ZWICKER
MARSHALL SAWLER
FRANCES HIRTLR
FREDERICK BARKHOUSE
MAXWELL MOSHER
[bottom/en bas]
BLANDFORD
LAMBERT FLEET
AARON CLEVELAND
[bottom plaque/plaque en bas]
KOREA
1950 - 1953
[south face/face sud]
IN MEMORY OF
THOSE WHO FOUGHT AND FELL
FOR THEIR COUNTRY
RICHARD ANTHONY GREEN
2002 AFGHANISTAN
[bottom plaque/plaque en bas]
PEACE
KEEPING
[flagpole/mât]
PRESENTED TO
ROYAL CANADIAN LEGION
F.E. BUTLER BRANCH #44
CHESTER, N.S.
IN RECOGNITION OF CAMP NORWAY
1939 - 1945
MEMORIAL AND REUNION 1994
BY
COMMODORE BRUCE S. OLAND
C.ST. J. ED.CD. RCNR. RET.
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