Thebarton S.A. Police Roll of Honor Supreme Sacrifice

Details

Location Police Museum, Port Road, Thebarton (Southwark), City of West Torrens - South Australia, Australia
Type honour_roll
Description

Displayed in the SA Police Historical Society in the Thebarton Police Barracks.

This board will be going into storage when the police museum vacates the barracks before demolition late in 2023.

A pressed copper fascia with embossed scroll work, mounted on a timber backing bearing an engraved brass plate on which the names of SA Police Officers who paid the supreme sacrifice in WWI and WWII and Australian UN Police Contingent Cyprus are inscribed and highlighted in black.

Built Not yet discovered
Opened Not yet discovered
Inscription

1914-1918 1942-1945

ROLL OF HONOR

S.A. POLICE

ROLL OF HONOUR
For those who made the supreme sacrifice in
WORLD WAR I
(Names)
WORLD WAR II
(Names)
AUSTRALIAN U.N. POLICE ONTINGENT CYPRUS
(Name)

Condition

Good

Names

Showing 8 people of interest from memorial

NELSON, Francis Michael

Service number 339
Lieutenant
32nd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 31 Jul 1884

TUGWELL, Leonard Ormond

Service number 416728
Flight Lieutenant
No. 101 Squadron (RAF)
Royal Air Force
Born 24 Jun 1918

FIELD, William Hampstead

Service number 470
Lance Corporal
43rd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 4 May 1888

THORPE, Joseph Prentice

Service number 8581
Gunner
5th Field Artillery Brigade
AIF WW1
Born 10 Apr 1882

RAFFEN, John Percy

Service number 407183
Flying Officer
No. 3 Squadron (RAAF)
Royal Australian Air Force
Born 29 Feb 1920

HIGGS, Horace

Service number 3707
Private
10th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1884

POPE, Vivian Lewis

Service number 416993
Flight Sergeant
11 Personnel Depot and Receiving Centre
Royal Australian Air Force
Born 20 Aug 1923

BADENOCH, Archibald Montgomery

Service number SX6469
Sergeant
2nd/43rd Infantry Battalion
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 22 May 1902

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