Montreal-West War Monument
Municipality/Province: Montréal (Montreal West/Montréal-Ouest), QC
Memorial number: 24029-004
Type: Monument - granite
Address: 50 South Westminster Avenue
Location: Next to the Montreal-West City Hall
GPS coordinates: Lat: 45.4517739 Long: -73.6425317
Submitted by: Michel Litalien; Alan Hustak
Currie, the first native born Canadian to lead a Canadian Corps in the First World War, unveiled the monument on October 21, 1921. The bronze statue of a Canadian soldier on a granite pedestal was sculpted by Geo. W. Hill. It is dedicated to the men and women who gave their life during the First and Second World Wars.
Inscription found on memorial
[front/devant]
DEDICATED TO THE
MEMORY OF THE SONS
OF MONTREAL WEST
WHO GLORIOUSLY
LAID DOWN THEIR
LIVES IN THE GREAT
WAR AND IN HONOUR
FOREVERMORE OF
ALL THOSE WHO
SERVED THEREIN
THIS TRIBUTE IS ERECTED
WITH FULL HEARTS BY THEIR
FOLLOW CITIZENS
1914-1918
[left side/côté gauche]
PTE. F.K.S. MACKAY
[right side/côté droit]
FLT. CDT. G. L. ROBINSON
SGT. R. S. MCLAGAN M. M.
SGT. JOHN H. THOMPSON
[back/arrière]
LENS
THE SOMME
YPRES
FESTUBERT
VIMY RIDGE
HILL 70
PASSCHENDAELE
AMIENS
CAMBRAI
DROCOURT-QUEANT
MONS
[wall/mur]
1939 REMEMBRANCE 1945
ALEXANDER, JAMES
FREELANO, J. ROY
HALE, JOHN
JOHNSTON, JACK G.
PATRICK, JOHN H.
PETRICK, THOMAS M.
RODDY, WILLIAM J.
Street view
Note
This information is provided by contributors and Veterans Affairs Canada makes it available as a service to the public. Veterans Affairs Canada is not responsible for the accuracy, currency or reliability of the information.
- Date modified: