Ogden City Cemetery WWI Doughboy

The bronze doughboy in Ogden City Cemetery has moved once already. Sculptor Gilbert Risvold cast the World War I infantryman in the 1920s for the Herman Baker American Legion post on 24th Street, where it stood on the hall's balcony; after the Second World War, the Legion gave it to the city and it came to rest among the graves. Over the decades weather had cost it a helmet and a rifle bolt. Volunteers reforged the missing pieces and rededicated the figure in 2018, a century after the guns of the Great War fell silent.

What the plaque says

IN WAR IN PEACE THEY SERVED In Flanders Fields -By John McCrae In Flanders Fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the Dead. Short days ago We lived, felt dawn, saw sunset glow, Loved and were loved, and now we lie, In Flanders Fields. Take up our quarrel with the foe: To you from failing hands we throw The torch; be yours to hold it high If ye break faith with us who die We shall not sleep, though poppies grow In Flanders fields.

Where it stands

Worth the stop nearby

• Ogden Union Station — 0.9 mi
  A grand 1924 train depot turned museum complex
• Snowbasin — 5.5 mi
  One of the country's oldest ski areas and a 2002 Olympic downhill venue — world-class terrain that somehow still skis uncrowded.
• Hill Aerospace Museum — 5.7 mi
  Over 90 military aircraft displayed indoors and on the tarmac
• Powder Mountain — 14 mi
  The largest ski resort in the United States by acreage — a famously uncrowded "PowMow" now remaking itself under Netflix's Reed Hastings.

More markers nearby

• Ogden City Cemetery — steps away
• Ogden City Cemetery G.A.R. Monument — steps away
• Pierre-Jean De Smet — 0.7 mi
• Sup Pioneer Handcart — 0.8 mi