Doughboy Memorial
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The Doughboy Statue in its original location on the balcony of the American Legion Post on 24th street in Ogden, circa 1920.
As a continuing force for preservation and history in the community, Weber County Heritage Foundation is honored to present the fully restored WWI Doughboy Statue in the Ogden City Cemetery.
In cooperation with Ogden City and the American Legion, and with help from RAMP funding, the Weber County Heritage Foundation has fully restored the statue, including cleaning and repairing the bronze, recreating and replacing the lost helmet and rifle bolt as well as repairing the joint, and applying a new bronze patina. Another component of the restoration included removing of the crumbling concrete dais and replacing it with a new granite monolith.
The statue, sculpted by Gilbert P. Risvold was originally dedicated in the 1920s. It stood previously on the balcony of the old American Legion Post on 24th Street in Ogden and was moved to the Ogden City Cemetery shortly after World War II.
The term “doughboy” refers to the nickname for members of the U.S. Army or Marine Corps during World War I, especially members of the American Expeditionary Forces.
The Weber County Heritage Foundation would like to give a heartfelt thanks to the dozens of individual citizens who donated to the restoration of the statue, as well as the organizational donors listed below:
Weber County Heritage Foundation
National Society Daughters of the American Revolution
Golden Spike Chapter NDSAR
Baker-Merrill American Legion Post 9
Pritzker Military Museum Foundation and WWI Foundation
Ogden City Corporation
Ogden City Parks – In Memory of Perry Huffaker
Wadman Corporation
Mountain West Architecture
Weber County Ramp Grant
Nationwide Monument
Adonis Bronze
Utah Division of State History and Utah Department of Veterans and Military Affairs
Ogden Art Metal Inc.
Golden Hours Senior Center – Golden Vets
Boy Scouts of America, Troop 18
American Legion presents a $2,000 to Weber County Heritage Foundation President Connie Cox for the restoration project of the WWI Doughboy statue
In Flanders Fields
John McCrae, 1872 - 1918
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.
