Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines Memorial -- Wilson KS
N 38° 49.520 W 098° 28.416
14S E 545693 N 4297525
A large beautifully sculptural WWI memorial in Legion Park, on the edge of downtown Wilson KS.
Waymark Code: WMGY31
Location: Kansas, United States
Date Posted: 04/22/2013
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A gorgeous church-like monument at the west edge of Legion Park, dedicated "In Honor of our Soldiers Sailors and Marines of the World War".
The Monument appears to be a Neo-Classical grotto, with a life-size American WWI soldier in dress uniform standing at attention at the apex of the roof.
Inside is a long roll of the honored dead from Kansas in WWI.
From a fascinating paper "Forgotten Reminders, Kansas World War I Memorials" by Steven Trout: (
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"An unknown artist of considerable talent created the limestone infantryman who stands rigidly at attention atop the Soldiers, Sailors, and Marines Memorial in Wilson. . . .
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On Armistice Day 1919 . . . . Wilson dedicated the doughboy monument that still stands there today—a symbolic victory for the traditional, nonfunctional memorial at a time when utilitarian commemoration was on the rise." [end]