Brooding Soldier At Saint Julien Memorial Editorial Image

The St. Julien Memorial is a Canadian war memorial and small commemorative park located in the village of Saint-Julien, Langemark West Flemish: Sint-Juliaan, Belgium. The memorial commemorates the Canadian First Division`s participation in the Second Battle of Ypres of World War I which included fighting in the face of the first poison gas attacks along the Western Front. Frederick Chapman Clemesha`s sculpture, the Brooding Soldier, was selected to serve as the central feature of the monument following a design competition organized by the Canadian Battlefield Monument Commission in 1920