Burnside Primary School Memorial Gates

Details

Location High Street, Burnside (SA), Burnside City Council - South Australia, Australia
Type memorial_gates
Description

Burnside Primary School. Memorial Gates. A structure comprising four brick columns, the outer 2 columns are separated from the inner columns by single wooden gates, the inner columns by double wooden gates surmounted with a ceramic tile canopy. Suspended from the canopy centre is a brass plaque, a bronze plaque is affixed to the face of each inner column

Built Not yet discovered
Opened 24 April 1926
Inscription

Plaques:

Top: MEMORIAL GATES ERECTED 1926

Left: RISING SUN AIF badge
BURNSIDE PUBLIC SCHOOL
IN MEMORY OF
OLD SCHOLARS
WHO FELL IN THE
GREAT WAR 1914-1918

Right: RISING SUN AIF badge
LEST WE FORGET
HORACE APPLEBEE
CHARLES BLESING
THOMAS G.CLARK
RICHARD L.GADD
WILLIAM MORLEY
WILLIAM RICHTER
FRANCIS W.SLAPE

Condition

MAINTAINED BY: School board

PECULIARITIES/DAMAGE: The right hand plaque listing the names of the Fallen was stolen in 2020, presumably or its scrap metal value. Action is believed to be in hand to replace it, between the School and the Burnside Council..

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Names

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BLESING, Charles Frederick

Service number 1994
Bombardier
11th Field Artillery Brigade
AIF WW1
Born 24 Mar 1894

CLARKE, Thomas Harry Comer

Service number 2819
Private
4th Pioneer Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1895

APPELBEE, Horace Robert

Service number 4747
Signaller
32nd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 23 Sep 1894

RICHTER, William Ernest

Service number 1883
Gunner
13th Field Artillery Brigade
AIF WW1
Born 11 Sep 1897

GADD, Richard Lindsay

Service number 29945
Gunner
14th Field Artillery Brigade
AIF WW1

MORLEY, William

Service number 2412
Private
10th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 13 Oct 1898

SLAPE, Francis William

Service number 3479
Corporal
50th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born Jun 1898

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