• Aline Gubbay (photographer)
• George W. Hill (role unspecified)
• Percy Erskine Nobbs (architect)

View of the war memorial commemorating World Wars I and II, between Sherbrooke Street and chemin de la Côte Saint-Antoine, Westmount, Québec

1977 or 1978

- This war memorial commemorates the men of Westmount who died during World War I and World War II. The bronze statue in the round shows an armed soldier being guided forward by a winged Victory. There are two bas-reliefs on either side of the base, the one on the right side shows a nurse with an armchair in the background while the one on the left side shows a woman and dog with a soldier's uniform and helmet in the background. The parapet at the rear of the statue lists the men who died during World War I, while the parapets to either side of the statue list the men who died during World War II.

Gelatin silver print

comp.: 16.3 x 16.5 cm sheet: 17.9 x 16.5 cm

PH1980:1403

• exterior view

inscribed - by an unknown hand, in graphite, on the sheet, verso, c.: "?" [sideways]; and l.c.: "Ware[sic] Dead" [upside down] inscribed - in the image, on the base of the monument, at the front: "TO.THE.MEN / OF.WESTMOUNT / WHO.GAVE / THEIR.LIVES / IN.THE.GREAT.WAR / MCMXIV - MCMXVIII / AND.IN / THE.WORLD.WAR / MCMXXXIX - MCMXLV"; on the base of the monument, at the rear: "THEIR.NAME / LIVETH.FOR / EVERMORE"; on both sides of the parapet at the rear: "THE ROLL OF HONOUR" followed by 8 panels of the names of the dead with "1914-1918" at the bottom; and on both sides of the parapets to each side of the monument: "TO HONOUR" followed by 5 panels of names of the dead with "1939-1945" at the bottom.

Westmount; Québec; Canada;

• architecture
• sculpture

• figures (representations)
• apartment houses
• sculpture
• war memorial

© Aline Gubbay