The Tunnellers’ Friends - Memorial Chamber - Ottawa, Ontario
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These separate sculptures of animals that served during the Great War were sculpted by Cléophas Soucy in 1927. They are located over the doorway leading to the Memorial Chamber in the Peace Tower, Parliament Buildings, in Ottawa, Ontario.
Waymark Code: WMXAZY
Location: Ontario, Canada
Date Posted: 12/19/2017
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Long Description:
Title: The Tunnellers' Friends
Object name: Tympanum
Artist: John A. Pearson
Sculptor/Stone carver: Cléophas Soucy
Date: 1927
Material: Indiana limestone
Dimensions: 104 x 204 cm
Over the doorway leading to the Memorial Chamber in the Peace Tower, this tympanum pays tribute to animals that served during the war – reindeer, pack mules, carrier pigeons, horses, dogs, canaries and mice.
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The inscription reads:
The tunnellers’ friends, the humble beasts that served and died.
Les amis des sapeurs ces humbles bêtes de somme qui moururent pour la cause.
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