Moore Park Cricket Association Memorial Fountain

Details

Location Moore Park, ANZAC Parade & Cleveland Streets, Moore Park, Sydney - New South Wales, Australia
Type other
Description

Stone fountain with a semicircular metal plaque erected by the cricket association members to commemorate their fallen comrades. The plaque contains two classical female figures, encircled with wreaths, labelled Courage and Peace.

A monument erected by the Moore Park Cricket Association to the memory of fallen players of the Association was unveiled yesterday by Ald. W. J. Walker, at the corner of Cleveland and Dowling streets, Moore Park. The monument is a drinking fountain is sandstone on a trachyte foundation, with a bronze panel which contains the names of the 32 players who were killed. Altogether 375 enlisted from the Association.
Sunday Times (Sydney, NSW), 11 September 1921.

The memorial was restored in 2004 repairing years of damage from the effects of weather and pollution.

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Built Not yet discovered
Opened 10 September 1921
Inscription

THIS FOUNTAIN WAS ERECTED BY THE MEMBERS OF
THE MORRE PARK CRICKET ASSOCATION OIN COMMEMORATION
OF THIER COMRADES WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 1918

(Names)

COURAGE PEACE

FOR GOD KING AND COUNTRY

Condition

Good

Names

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HUNTER, Maurice James Emerton

Service number 574
Private
18th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 10 Jun 1893

SAVILLE, Robert Hamilton

Service number 6083
Private
4th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1897

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