Over the Top - Albany, Missouri
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BruceS
N 40° 14.843 W 094° 20.004
15T E 386591 N 4456067
World War I Memorial on the grounds of the Gentry County Courthouse in Albany, Missouri.
Waymark Code: WM7GB1
Location: Missouri, United States
Date Posted: 10/22/2009
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Statue of a World War I infantry man striding forward with his rifle in his left and and his right raised and in a fist. The statue is titled "Over the To
p" by John Paulding. Below the statue is a plaque inscribed with the following:
ERECTED IN HONOR OF/THE CITIZENS OF GENTRY COUNTY
WHO SERVED AS SOLDIERS SAILORS
OR MARINES IN THE WAR AGAINST
GERMANY AND HER ALLIES
1917 1919
IN MEMORIAM
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Elbert Lewis Adams
Harwood Canaday
Claud Franz
George Donald Holden
William Earl Hulet
Harry T. Elder
Harold Lamb
John Joseph O'Malley
James Rader
Homer Rouse
Clifford Zumwalt
George Gyer
Cecil A. Rice
David Ed Hardin
Porter Mothersead
Edward L. Lindsay
Robert Ovrie Smith
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John Dowie
Jesse Wayne David
Frank Wilbur Duncan
Ray David
William Hutchcraft
B. Hyten
Roy Perry Duncan
Raymond D Sager
Hallie R. Leith
Glaude D. Tunnell
Guy Oren Smith
James Lemaster
James R. Park
Wales Pratt
John W. Mattney
Samuel B. Dresbach
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TITLE: Over the Top
ARTIST(S): John Paulding
DATE: 1926. Dedicated May 30, 1926. Copyrighted 1920, 1934. Rededicated Aug. 24, 1984.
MEDIUM: Sculpture: bronze; Base: grey marble or granite, and concrete.
CONTROL NUMBER: IAS 47260058
Direct Link to the Individual Listing in the Smithsonian Art Inventory: [Web Link]
PHYSICAL LOCATION:
Gentry County Courthouse
Polk & Wood Streets
Albany, Missouri
DIFFERENCES NOTED BETWEEN THE INVENTORY LISTING AND YOUR OBSERVATIONS AND RESEARCH:
None noted
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