Forrest Cenotaph
Municipality/Province: Forrest, MB
Memorial number: 46001-050
Type: Column - marble
Address: Main Street
Location: Highway 10 - North of Brandon, located in the village by postal boxes, near grain elevator
GPS coordinates: Lat: 49.96609 Long: -99.93785
Submitted by: Philip M. Lyons; Karen Nicholson; Gary Dickson
The monument at Forrest is a popular gravemarker type that was, oddly, used for only a handful of war memorials – the simple and evocative column. This example gains additional dignity through its elevation on a broad stepped base. The use of an urn shape at the apex of the column was also a common design feature for this type of memorial. Texts are inscribed on the column shaft, and include nine names from the First World War and two from the Second World War.
Erected by the Forrest Community, this memorial is dedicated to the memory of those who paid the supreme sacrifice and served during the First and Second World Wars.
Inscription found on memorial
[inscription/inscription]
ERECTED
TO THE MEMORY OF
THOSE WHO PAID THE
SUPREMEM SACRIFICE
AND IN HONOR OF THOSE
WHO SERVED IN THE
1914 GREAT WAR 1919
J. LAU
O. F. LAU
D.A. MCGREGOR
W. A. BURTON
E. ROGERS
H. LOCK
L. LOUNSBURY
W. H. SCOTT
E. C. SILVERWOOD
1939 1945
D. M. WAKEFIELD
W. GILMOUR
ERECTED BY THE
FORREST COMMUNITY
Street view
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