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URAIDLA 5142

MEMORIAL:Monument

 

LOCATION: Swamp Road, at the entrance to the Uraidla Memorial Park

 

ORIENTATION: West

 

DESCRIPTION: A marble monument enclosed within a wire mesh fence, comprising an octagonal tapered pillar in two sections surmounted by a Cross of Sacrifice, embossed on the Cross is a smaller Cross. The upper section has two Gothic style representations etched at the top of each face. The base of the Cross is mounted on two-tiers that in turn is atop a stepped pedestal and surbase. The base is a stepped two-tier concrete block and slab. A white marble plaque for WW2 is affixed to the base. All details are in lead letters.

 

INSCRIPTION:

 

Face:

 

Pedestal:

 

THIS CROSS WAS ERECTED BY THE

 

RESIDENTS OF URAIDLA AND THE

 

SURROUNDING DISTRICT TO

 

CO0MMEMORATE THE SACRIFICE OF

 

THEIRMEN WHOSE NAMES ARE

 

HEREON INSCRIBED, WHO DIED IN

 

THE SERVICE OF THEIR KING AND

 

COUNTRY DURING THE GREAT WAR.

 

 

AT THE GOING DOWN OF THE SUN

 

AND IN THE MORNING,

 

WE WILL REMEMBER THEM.

 

MARCH 1922

 

Base:

 

WORLD AIF badge WAR 11

 

1939-LEST WE FORGET-1945

 

Left:

 

Back:

 

THIS SOLDIERS' MEMORIAL PARK

 

WAS OPENED ON ANZAC DAY,

 

APRIL 25. 1920.

 

IN GRATEFUL RECOGNITION OF

 

THE COURAGE AND FORTITUDE OF ALL

 

THOSE MEN WHO ENLISTED FROM THIS

 

DISTRICT DURING THE DAYS OF THE

 

GREAT WAR.

 

Right:

Sign at the park entrance to the Uraidla sporting complex.

 

URAIDLA & DISTRICTS

 

SOLDIERS

 

MEMORIAL PARK

 

 

INCORPORATED

 

 

ESTABLISHED 1920

 

MAINTAINED BY: Local community

 

PECULIARITIES/DAMAGE:Pedestal cracked

 

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT/DATE:15 Jun 06, following site location from June Freeman 06 Jun 06