Neepawa Cenotaph

This memorial is dedicated by the People of Beautiful Plains and Citizens of Neepawa to the memory of those who served in the First and Second World Wars and Korea.

In 1920 the Canadian William A. Rogers Limited Company published a catalogue of memorial designs including the overlife-sized statue of a soldier in greatcoat. According to the catalogue, Rogers was at that time the only bronze foundry in Canada that had successfully made large casts like this. The figure is a cast from a model by a St. Boniface sculptor named Nicolas Pirroton.

Inscription

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Erected by the People of Beautiful Plains. In commemoration of those who served in the Great War 1914 – 1918. Memorable battles Amiens, Arras, Festubert, Givenchy, Ypres, Sanctuary Wood, Somme, St. Eloi, Vimy Ridge, Passchendaele

[side panels/blocs de côté]

Our glorious dead (122 names/122 noms)

[slab/dalle]

1939 – 1945 (2 columns, 76 names/2 colonnes, 76 noms) Korea (3 names/3 noms). At the going down of the sun and in the morning we will remember them. Dedicated by the Citizens of Neepawa and District in memory of those men who gave their lives in World War ll

Ce monument commémoratif est dédié par la population de Beautiful Plains et les habitants de Neepawa à la mémoire des soldats qui servirent pendant les deux guerres mondiales et la guerre de Corée.

En 1920, la firme canadienne William A. Rogers Limited Company publia un catalogue répertoriant des modèles de monuments commémoratifs, dont celui d’un soldat surdimensionné vêtu d’une capote. Selon le catalogue, cette firme fut, à l’époque, la seule fonderie de bronze au Canada qui eût réussi à produire un modèle de cette taille. La statue est un moulage fait à partir d’un modèle de Nicolas Pirroton, un sculpteur de Saint‑Boniface.

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Le texte de l’inscription figure dans la section anglaise.