The Cenotaph
Photographs of
Halifax War Memorial
WW1 1914 – 1918
WW2 1939 – 1945 Korea 1950 – 1953
Grand Parade Halifax Nova Scotia
GPS location: 44°38’52″N 63°34’29″W
Plaque near the Halifax war memorial monument
Cenotaph: an empty tomb, a sepulchral monument erected
in honour of persons whose bodies are elsewhere
Halifax war memorial monument, east and north faces
East Face inscription
Amiens Arras Canal du Nord Cambrai
Halifax war memorial monument, south face
Upper inscription on the south face
South Face inscription
Battle of Britain Battle of the Atlantic Sicily Landings
Ortona Gothic Line Normandy Landing Falaise Gap
Battle of the Scheldt Battle of the Rhineland The Rhine Crossing
Lower inscription on the south face
Halifax war memorial monument, north and west faces
Inscriptions on the north and west faces
West Face inscription
Somme Vimy Ypres Hill 70 Passchendaele
The above photographs were taken on 10 December 2002.
Unveiling and Dedication of the Cenotaph, 1 July 1929
http://www.halifax.ca/community/HalifaxCityHall/unveiling_cenotaph.html
Public Art: War Memorial – Cenotaph
http://www.halifax.ca/Community/PublicArt/cenotaph.html
Cenotaph, Grand Parade by Mike Campbell
http://www.mikecampbell.net/cenotaph.htm
John Massey Rhind by Wikipedia
Other Sculptures by John Massey Rhind (1860-1936)
Chester war memorial Chester, Nova Scotia
https://ns1763.ca/lunenco/chesmem.html
New Glasgow war memorial New Glasgow, Nova Scotia
https://ns1763.ca/pictouco/newglaswar.html
National McKinley Birthplace Memorial Niles, Trumbull County, Ohio
William McKinley was the 25th President of the United States.
http://www.sculpturecenter.org/oosi/sculpture.asp?SID=169
Grant’s Tomb New York City
http://www.grantstomb.org/ov3.html
Bust of Judge James Monroe Jackson, Sr. Parkersburg, West Virginia
http://www.eg.bucknell.edu/~hyde/jackson/JamesMJackson.html
Moses Smiting the Rock Washington Park, Albany, New York
http://www.albany.edu/~jg7712/isp523/neighborhood.html
Statue of Crawford W. Long
National Statuary Hall Collection, U.S. Capitol, Washington, D.C.
http://www.aoc.gov/cc/art/nsh/long_c.cfm
Corning Memorial Fountain Hartford, Connecticut
http://www.bushnellpark.org/Content/Corning_Fountain.asp
Statue of Stephen Girard Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Philadelphia’s greatest philanthropist
http://www.philart.net/images/large/girard.jpg
Statue of Tedyuscung Chestnut Hill, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
http://www.philart.net/images/large/tedy1.jpg
Dr. Benjamin Franklin Stephenson Indiana Plaza, Washington, D.C.
http://www.kittytours.org/thatman2/search.asp?subject=16
Apollo Fountain Georgian Court College, Lakewood, New Jersey
The Apollo Fountain, designed by John Massey Rhind, was a
birthday gift in 1902 for George Gould’s wife…
http://www.ettc.net/njarts/details.cfm?ID=347
Erskine Memorial Fountain Grant Park, Atlanta, Georgia
…Mrs. Ward commissioned New York sculptor J. Massey Rhind to
create a fountain that would serve as a public memorial to her father.
Rhind was a very distinguished artist. Commisssioned by William
Waldorf Astor, he had designed the famous memorial doors of
Trinity Church in New York in honor of Astor’s deceased father.
Rhind came to Atlanta for the fountain’s formal unveiling and was
on hand to receive compliments on his creation, which was then
considered to be one of Atlanta’s most notable landmarks…
http://gpconservancy.org/node/64
Statue of Peter Stuyvesant 866 Bergen Avenue, Jersey City, New Jersey
http://www.njcu.edu/programs/jchistory/
Pages/S_Pages/Stuyvesant_Peter.htm
Cover of Carnegie Magazine, 1992 Carnegie Library, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
An early photo of two muses, part of the allegorical groups created by
sculptor John Massey Rhind as spirits presiding over The Carnegie.
http://www.clpgh.org/exhibit/neighborhoods/oakland/oakcen12.html
View 1: Statue of Maj. Gen. Abner Doubleday Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
http://www.gb1863.com/432.JPG
View 2: Statue of Maj. Gen. Abner Doubleday Gettysburg, Pennsylvania
http://www.gb1863.com/433.JPG
One Hundred Broadway 100 Broadway, New York City
Prominently sited at the southeast corner of Broadway and Pine Street,
opposite Trinity Church, the building stands in the heart of the
New York financial district … Clad in Maine granite, the
twenty-four story building features a rich neo-Renaissance
decorative scheme that incorporates Greek elements such as the
Ionic entrance colonnade and the severe classical sculptural figures,
designed by J. Massey Rhind, at the third story…
http://www.100broadway.com/history.html
