Alma Cenotaph
Municipality/Province: Alma, QC
Memorial number: 24030-001
Type: Obelisk
Address: Prince Street West and Mcnaughton Avenue
GPS coordinates: Lat: 48.5504607 Long: -71.6527704
Submitted by: Rodolphe Fournier
The Alma Cenotaph, erected by the Alma Royal Canadian Legion on November 9, 1947, is dedicated to the citizens of Alma who fought and died during the two World Wars.
The work of the attacking soldiers was created by sculptor Louis Sorbonne of Quebec. The plate is made of aluminum, significant because several facilities related to the aluminum industry were built in the area to aid in the war effort.
The cenotaph was placed at the corner of Collard Street and Regional Road. In 1962, it was moved near the Town Hall (Alma city center). Then in 1978, a small park was created at the entrance to the Riverbend area and the cenotaph was moved there.
Inscription found on memorial
[back/arrière]
A NOS SOLDATS
TOMBÉS
AU CHAMP D’HONNEUR
1939 - 1945
ALMA
GABRIEL TURCOTTE 23 ANS
J. P. PICARD 24 ANS
ARISTIDE DUGUAY 20 ANS
FRANKIE HOLLANDS 24 ANS
MAURICE BARON 28 ANS
JOSEPH HENRI HARVEY 31 ANS
CH.-AUGUSTE LALANCETTE 24 ANS
YVON OUELLETTE
N. DUGUAY
RIVERBEND
WILFRID S. BOND
J. D. GILL
WENDELL MC CLELLAN 32 ANS
R. MASSICOTTE
LIEUTENANT R. THORNE
ILE MALIGNE
J. D. BUTLER 21 ANS
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