Basket Range WW1 Memorial

Details

Location Corner Lobethal Road & Burdetts Road, Basket Range, Adelaide Hills - South Australia, Australia
Type memorial
Description

A polished marble memorial comprising an obelisk surmounted on a capped pedestal and sur-base, a rough-cut tapered block and concrete slab. All details are in black. The monument is enclosed within a low metal post and rail fence set within a concrete edged rosemary covered garden.

Built BUILT/ERECTED: 1919
Opened 19 January 1919 by Mr. Angas Parsons (K.C., M.P.)
Inscription

Pedestal:Face:

IN MEMORIAM

FOR KING & COUNTRY

 

Top tier:Face:

ERECTEDBY RESIDENTS OF BASKET RANGE.JANUARY1919.

Condition

MAINTAINED BY: Local community

PECULIARITIES/DAMAGE: Letters fading

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Names

Showing 6 people of interest from memorial

PACKER, Edgar Reginald

Service number 353
Private
43rd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 12 Jul 1889

MCDONALD, Hugh Rennie

Service number 1781
Lance Corporal
48th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 9 Jul 1889

BISHOP, Alfred Norman

Service number 235
Sergeant
43rd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 12 May 1890

COLLINS, Leslie Thomas Ralph

Service number 9510
Driver
6th Field Artillery Brigade
AIF WW1
Born 10 Mar 1896

BELL, Eric Chalcroft

Service number 739
Trooper
3rd Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1
Born 5 Jan 1893

BISHOP, Walter Lewis

Service number 1177
Gunner
3rd Field Artillery Brigade
AIF WW1
Born 10 Sep 1892

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