Burra Fallen Soldiers Memorial

Details

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.

Since its construction, the Memorial had incorporated two captured WW1 77mm German Field Guns. The story of the guns is detailed on a plaque near the base of the Memorial.

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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.

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Names

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MCBRIDE, Norman Harold

Service number OFFICER
Lieutenant
3rd Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1
Born 15 Feb 1894

SANDLAND, Morton Reginald

Service number 191
Lieutenant
3rd Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1
Born 22 Jun 1889

FERGUSSON, Leslie Roy

Service number 6746
Corporal
Army Pay Corps (AIF)
AIF WW1
Born 9 Apr 1892

WOOLLACOTT, Robert James

Service number 11662
Sergeant
Born 10 Mar 1886

JOSEPHS, Walter Charles

Service number 500
Sergeant
43rd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 6 Mar 1893

INGLIS, Fred

Service number 4651
Sergeant
3rd Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1
Born 26 Jul 1887

HILL, George

Service number 3261A
Driver
32nd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1892

STASINOWSKY, Samuel Carl Richard

Service number 3229
Private
50th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 12 Feb 1896

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