County of Brome War Memorial
Municipality/Province: Knowlton, QC
Memorial number: 24011-033
Type: Shaft - granite, statue - bronze
Address: 81 Victoria Street
Location: Knowlton Academy
GPS coordinates: Lat: 45.2217076 Long: -72.5159539
Submitted by: Michel Litalien
In 1921, the County of Brome Council resolved to arrange for “the erection of a War Memorial to the boys of the county who were killed in the Great War.” The School Board of Knowlton granted permission to erect the memorial on school grounds on land donated by Justice Lynch. After an extended search, a contract was signed with Montreal sculptor Coeur de Lion MacCarthy.
The memorial, draped with a large union jack, was unveiled by Lieutenant-General Sir Richard Turner, VC, KCM on September 3, 1923. The bronze statue of a First World War Canadian soldier being guided by an angel stands atop a granite stone base.
Coeur de Lion MacCarthy, the son of sculptor Hamilton McCarthy, produced numerous commemorative works after the First World War, including: Winged Victory in British Columbia; Great War Memorial and Lethbridge Cenotaph in Alberta; Winged Victory in Manitoba; County of Brome War Memorial, Verdun Victory Memorial, Monument to the Brave and Winged Victory in Quebec; Clifton Hill War Memorial and Woodstock Cenotaph in Ontario.
Inscription found on memorial
[front/devant]
1914-1919
THIS TRIBUTE IS
DEDICATED TO THE
SONS
OF THE COUNTY
OF BROME WHO SO
GLORIOUSLY LAID
DOWN THEIR LIVES
IN THE GREAT WAR.
ERECTED WITH GRATEFUL
HEARTS BY THEIR FELLOW
CITIZENS.
[side/côté]
IN MEMORIAM
TOM BIRCHFIELD
GARDNER BOOTH
MYRON BROWN
REGINALD BROWN
WILLIAM BRERETON
GLEN C. COAPLAND
GORDON H. CROWELL
GORDON COOK
JAMES CUNNINGHAM
EDWARD CLARK
SAM COOK
RUSSELL S. DEUEL
ROYCE C. DYER
C. EDWARD DYER
JOHN DALTON
EDWARD L. ELAND
FRANK FERLAND
GORDON FULLER
ALEXANDER S. FULLER
DAVID FRASER
GEORGE GILMAN
WILLIAM GUIRVAN
ALBERT HAPGOOD
JOS. HALL
FREDRICK HUGHES
PERCY HARDEN
WILLIAM HUNT
MAXWELL HORTON
ARTHUR INGALLS
PERCY JOHNSON
WILLIAM KING
WILLIAM MILLER
[plaque]
IN MEMORIAM
NORMAN M. MACDONALD
COLIN C. MACDONALD
SYDNEY G. MENARD
STANLEY MOREHOUSE
E. CARL MILLER
HUGH MCHAFFIE
HERBERT NIXON
JOHN NUTTING
GEORGE W. PEDRICK
MARC A. PRATT
VICTOR PREMONT
JERRY C. PETTES
ALBERT PULFORD
ALFRED REED
LAWRENCE B. ROGERS
HAROLD E. RALSTON
WILLIAM SANISTREET
ERNEST SPENCER
FRANK SMITH
MAYLAND SANBORN
OSCAR SANBORN
ALVA SHEPARD
SIDNEY VOKES
LELAND S. WESTOVER
GEORGE WESTOVER
GEORGE WHITFORD
FRANK E. YOUNG
ROBERT WHERRY
VALDEMAR WEST
HERBERT H. WILLIAMS
THOMAS WILSON
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