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 granted permission to erect the memorial on school grounds on land donated by Justice Lynch. A contract for the memorial 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, with an estimated 3,000 people gathered. 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.
