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Location Corner of Stephens Street and Arthur Street, Booleroo Centre, Mount Remarkable - South Australia, Australia
Type memorial
Description

A white marble memorial comprising a capped tapered pillar with a square base surmounted on a capped pedestal and three-tier base that in turn is mounted on a concrete slab. On the top of the pillar is a symbolic ashes urn. At the bottom of the pillar face is a bronze wreath with ribbands. On each of the four faces of the pillar base are bronze plaques depicting scenes of conflict. The monument is set in a paved area. In front of the monument is a white marble slab for World War 11. All details are in black.

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Built W. Laycock
Opened Not yet discovered
Inscription

Face: Plaque:

Scene of a medical first aid station

Pedestal:

IN MEMORIAM

 

Left:Plaque:

Machine gun defence position

Pedestal:

IN HONOR1914GAGHAN C.H.1915

 

Back:Plaque:

Light Horse in the desert

Pedestal:

U"LEST WE FORGET."

ERECTED TO COMMEMORATE THE SERVICES OF THEMEN OF THIS DISTRICT WHO FOUGHTIN THE GREAT WAR

1914-1919 A.D.

Right:Plaque:

Artillery action

Pedestal:

IN HONOR1916

 

1917

 

Marble slab:

 

IN MEMORY OF THE FALLEN1939-1945

 

LEST WE FORGET.

 

Condition

MAINTAINED BY: Booleroo Centre Council

PECULIARITIES/DAMAGE: Letters damaged

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Names

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MICHAEL, Herbert Donovan

Service number 379
Private
27th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 13 Sep 1890

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COLLINS, Henry

Service number S73037
Warrant Officer Class 2
6th (SA) Battalion Volunteer Defence Corps (VDC)
Australian Military Forces (Army WW2)
Born 27 Aug 1890

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HAWKE, Arthur Roy

Service number 285
Sapper
5th Divisional Signal Company
AIF WW1
Born 26 Nov 1896

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MICHAEL, Harold William

Service number 7524
Private
10th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 21 Aug 1897

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MICHAEL, James Ray

Service number S3163
Private
Born 11 Apr 1898

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ALLEN, Charles Henry

Service number 984
Private
10th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1 Sep 1895

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BRENNAN, William James

Service number 2355
Private
3rd Machine Gun Company
AIF WW1
Born 21 Jan 1893

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BROOKS, Norman Leonard

Service number 2026
Private
50th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1892

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