Doughboy Statue - Sedalia Commercial Historic District - Sedalia, Missouri - NRHP Historic Districts - Contributing Buildings on Waymarking.com

Doughboy Statue: This bronze statue of a World War I doughboy, poised to throw a grenade, rests of a red marble pedestal approximately five feet tall which rests on a two foot tall stepped platform of gray granite. The statue sits in the center of the west lawn of the courthouse facing west toward South Ohio Avenue; the sidewalk leading from the street to the courthouse’s west entrance goes around the statue. On the west façade of the pedestal is the phrase, "Our Glorious Dead, 1917-1918.” Under the phrase, the names of Pettis County’s World War I dead are engraved; the list of World War I dead continues at the bottom of the north façade of the pedestal. The dead from World War II are engraved on the south and east facades. The names of the Korean War dead and the Vietnam War dead are engraved on the top of the north façade and middle of the north facade. 1-C