The Spirit of the American Doughboy - Clearwater, FL
N 27° 57.748 W 082° 48.160
17R E 322679 N 3094352
A set of statues--Doughboy and Navy--stand watch over the eastern end of the memorial causeway. The area was rededicated when the new causeway was built.
Waymark Code: WM7H94
Location: Florida, United States
Date Posted: 10/26/2009
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Spirit of the American Doughboy
artist: E.M. Viquesney (1876-1946)
copyright 1920
Originally dedicated on November 11, 1927 at the opening ceremony of the Memorial Causeway Bridge. Donated by the American Legion Post 7 in memory of 38 local service men who died in World War I.
Rededicated November 10, 2006 following the completion of the new Memorial Causeway Bridge in 2005, the statue was restored and reinstalled. Considered Viquesney's greatest work of art, 132 original "Doughboys" are still in existence.
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Inscription: (On plaque at proper right corner of plinth, raised:) 'SPIRIT OF THE/AMERICAN DOUGHBOY'/COPYRIGHTED BY/E.M. VIQUESNEY SCULPTOR/SPENCER, INDIANA. (Around circumference of metal insignia on base, raised:) AMERICAN LEGION (At center of metal insignia on base, within star, raised:) U.S unsigned
Description: Figure of a World War I infantryman advancing through the stumps and barbed wire of No Man's Land. He holds a rifle in his proper left hand and a grenade in his upraised proper right hand.
Remarks: Monument to World War I soldiers. In 1991, T. Perry Wesley reported base media as stone; in 1994, Save Outdoor Sculpture survey reported base media as concrete.
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