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Location Market Square , Burra (SA), Goyder - South Australia, Australia
Type memorial
Description

Market Square, A 12 metre high monument comprising a 2.4 metre, 500-kilogram, bronze statue of a soldier in the "On Guard" stance, surmounted on the top of a capped column and a square pedestal that has protruding square corners with bronze wreath embellishments affixed. This in turn is mounted a three-tier sur-base and concrete slab. Bronze plaques are affixed to each face of the pedestal. The monument is enclosed within a low concrete fenced area

Built A.S.Tillet, West Terrace, Adelaide
Opened Not yet discovered
Inscription

Face:

Australian Commonwealth Forces InsigniaLaurel Leaves

THIS MEMORIAL IS ERECTED BY THE PEOPLE OF THIS TOWN & DISTRICT   IN HONOUR OF THEIR SONS WHO DIED FOR KING AND COUNTRY IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 TO 1919.

 

Back: Top plaque:

OUR GLORIOUS DEAD

Lower plaque:

1939-1945

Condition

MAINTAINED BY: District Council of Goyder.

PECULIARITIES/DAMAGE:
1. Ribbon on the wreath of the South corner is broken off.

2. The East face is the front face yet the soldier is facing north.
3. The use of an ampersand on the main plaque to save space, yet the word "and" is spelt out lower down.

View Tributes of Honour Description

Names

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TIVER, Frank Harold

Service number 2458
Private
50th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 14 Jul 1897

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JAMES, Cecil Hammond

Service number 839
Private
27th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 7 Oct 1895

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RULE, Esson Thomas James

Service number 188
Lieutenant
50th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 4 Jan 1895

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TURNER, Lawrence James

Service number 4235
Gunner
5th Division Medium and Heavy Trench Mortar Batteries
AIF
AIF WW1
Born 3 Mar 1898

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DUELL, John

Service number 2307
Private
3rd Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1
Born 1 Jan 1895

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TREGONNING, Walter Charles Douglas

Service number 1899A
Driver
5th Divisional Ammunition Column
AIF WW1
Born 11 Nov 1893

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WOOLLACOTT, Roy Herbert

Service number 407144
Flight Lieutenant
No. 100 Squadron (RAAF)
Royal Australian Air Force
Born 8 Aug 1910

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FERGUSSON, Leslie Roy

Service number 6746
Corporal
Army Pay Corps (AIF)
AIF WW1
Born Apr 1892

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