Bourget was commissioned in 1925 to provide a sculpture for this memorial and working in granite, he sculpted a helmeted soldier ("poulu") with rifle who leans on a rock looking at a cross and the graves of his comrades.
Bourget was commissioned in 1925 to provide a sculpture for this memorial and working in granite, he sculpted a helmeted soldier ("poulu") with rifle. This rifle leans on a rock. This rock is looking at a cross. This rock is looking at the graves of his comrades.