| Red Deer, Alberta
The Cenotaph was erected in memory of the men and women of Central Alberta who served during the First World War.
More than 800 citizens from the Red Deer District served overseas, 114 of them did not return from the European battlefields.
Major Frank Norbury, an architectural sculptor at the University of Alberta, carved the figure of the soldier in Tyndall stone. Local architect, C.A. Julian Sharman, designed the pedestal. On September 15, 1922 the Monument was formally unveiled by Lord Byng of Vimy, the Governor General of Canada.
Names of the local soldiers killed in action during World War II have been added to the scrolls inside the Monument.
The sculpted figure of the soldier, faces west toward the train station, symbolizing the yearning of Canadian soldiers to return home from the battle-torn fields of France.
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