Inauguration of the Victory Memorial

This image presents the October 5th, 1924 program for the unveiling of the cenotaph erected in honour of the soldiers who died during the First World War.

Transcription of the English part of the document:

Verdun War Memorial

The Verdun Victory Memorial, which was designed and executed by Coeur de Lion McCarthy, a Montreal artist-sculptor, depicts a Canadian soldier in an exultant attitude, his helmet in hand and his rifle raised in the spirit of Victory.

At the base of the monument is a female figure, symbolic of patriotism and peace, holding in her right hand the flags of Victory and supporting with her left hand a shield bearing the arms of the City of Verdun.

Charles Manning, President
Sydney D. Cunningham, Secretary
J.A.A. Leclair, Mayor
G.H. Abbott
J.K.B. Bacon, Alderman
R.J. McLeod, Trustee Syndic
C. Allard, Alderman
Herbert Brown
H.L. Cohn, Alderman
Chas. Rouse, Trustee Syndic
James Wishart

Verdun War Memorial
Unveiled October 5th, 1924

* Today, the cenotaph is known as the Victory Memorial and Monument aux braves de Verdun and is dedicated to those Verdunites who died in the two world wars and in the Korean War.

The following bilingual inscriptions are featured on the facade of the statue’s pedestal:

To the glory of God and in grateful memory of men of Verdun who fell in the great war.
À la gloire de Dieu et à la mémoire des hommes de Verdun morts au champ d’honneur durant la guerre
1914–1918.
Also dedicated in reverent memory to those who fell in World War II.
Aussi dédié à la mémoire de ceux qui tombèrent durant la Deuxième Guerre mondiale
1939–1945.
Korean War
Guerre de Corée
1950–1953

On the sides are the names of the main battles in which the Verdunites fought:

Somme, Amiens, Arras, Drocourt-Queant, Canal du Nord, Cambrai, Valenciennes, Mons.

Ypres, Festubert, St.Eloi, Mount Sorrel, Somme, Vimy Ridge, Hill 70 and Passchendaele.