The Tunnellers’ Friends - Memorial Chamber - Ottawa, Ontario - Relief Art Sculptures on Waymarking.com

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

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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.

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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