Braves Memorial
Municipality/Province: Shawinigan, QC
Memorial number: 24067-001
Type: Shaft
Address: 880 St Maurice Parkway
Location: Veterans Park
GPS coordinates: Lat: 46.5396512 Long: -72.7533103
Submitted by: Henri Bilodeau, M.D.
This monument honours the brave men from Shawinigan Falls killed in action during the First and Second World Wars. It was modelled after the stelia from ancient Greece. A bronze sword is mounted on each side of the monument, above three laurel wreaths. At the foot of the monument, a bronze statue represents a woman carrying in her arms a dying soldier whose face is partially hidden by her hands, making him more anonymous, more apt to represent the unknown soldier than to resemble someone in particular.
In front of the statue, a bronze plaque bears the following inscription: "Ceux qui pieusement sont morts pour la patrie ont droit qu'à leur tombeau la foule vienne et prie" – Victor Hugo. (Those who piously died for the country have a right to see the crowd come and pray on their tombs.) The monument was unveiled on September 6th, 1948.
Inscription found on memorial
[front/devant]
Erigé par la Cité de Shawinigan Falls
à la mémoire de ses chers fils,
artisans de la Victoire.
Ceux qui pieusement sont morts pour la patrie
ont droit qu'à leur tombeau la foule vienne et prie
TO THE GLORIOUS MEMORY OF HER GALLANT SONS WHO MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE. "THEY FELL AT DUTY'S CALL, ONE AFTER ONE. WE CALL THEM BRAVE WITH GOD IS THEIR REWARD.
[right side/côté droit]
1939-1945
BEAULIEU GEORGES
BERGERON LAURENT
BLAIR REGINALD
BOISELLE GERARD
CADORETTE RAYMOND
COOK HERBERT
CYR ANDRE
GILBERT MARCEL
GOODWIN WILLIAM R.
GUDGEON ALAN H.
HUNTER DWAIN
JEFFREYS HERBERT A.
JULIEN ANTONIO
LAFRENIERE GASTON
LANG GEORGE
LAURIN JEAN-PAUL
LAWRENCE TERRY N.
LEORMONTH NORMAN
LITTLE PATRICK C.
MARCHAND BERNARD
MOORE ROY F.
MURRAY STUART C.
MACLEAN JOHN IAN
NOONAN J. WILFRID
PARADIS J.H. ROGER
PARKER DONALD
PELLERIN ROGER
PEPPER WILLIAM
PLANTE MAURICE
PRONOVOST YVON
PHILIBERT J. ARTHUR
TREMBLAY MAURICE
TROTTIER JEAN-PAUL
VEZINA FERNAND
WALSH JOHN T.
CORÉE
1950-1953
BELAND MARCEL
[left side/côté gauche]
1914-1918
BELANGER EMILE
BECHARIA LUIGI
BECHARIA CARLO
CROTEAU EDMOND
DESCHENES ALPHONSE
DEGRAGI CARLO
DELLERA ERNESTO
DUPUIS WILLIE
GAUTHIER ADOLPHE
GINGRAS ARTHUR
GREENWAY JAMES
GREENWAY SAM
LESSARD WILFRID
LEMAY HENRI
MABOEUF ALBERT
MCNEIL WALTER
NIESSEN CAMILLE
PICHVANT JEAN
ROSS ROBERT
SHORT G.P.
SIMARD OVILA
SYSTERMANS CHARLES
SIQUAN YVES
TEXIER ERNSET
TRUDEL URBAIN
YOUNG WILLAIM H.
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