Memorial at Vancouver Corner

The ‘Brooding Soldier’ memorial is a 35 –feet high granite statue of a Canadian soldier with his head bowed and hands resting on reversed arms (resting with his hands on the butt of the rifle). The inscription on a plaque says ‘This column marks the battlefield where 18,000 Canadians on the British left withstood the first German gas attacks the 22nd-24th April 1915. 2000 fell and lie buried nearby.’ The Memorial, carved from a single shaft of granite, is situated in St. Juliaan village beside the main road from Ypres to Bruges.