Canterbury Captain John Biggsley Memorial Sundial

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Location Canterbury Gardens, Canterbury Road, Canterbury, Boroondara - Victoria, Australia
Type memorial
Description

Sundial

Captain Biggsley Memorial.
Officers and men of the 24th Kooyong Regiment will hold a special parade at Canterbury Gardens on Sunday at 3.30 p.m., when the memorial to the late Captain J. C. L. Biggsley will be unveiled by the mayor of Camberwell (Cr. W. R. Warner). The memorial will be presented to the municipality by Colonel S. G Savige. It is of unusual design, being of a bronze sundial mounted on a freestone base. All members of the 8th Battalion, A.X.F., and former members of the 24th Battalion are invited to be present.
The Age Wednesday September, 1917 page 8

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Opened 19 September 1937 by Colonel S. G Savige
Inscription

Captain John Charles Lesley Biggsley
A.I.C. 8 Bn A.I.F. 24 Bn A.M.F.

Condition

Good

Names

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BIGGSLEY, John Charles Leslie

Service number 2
Warrant Officer
8th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1888

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