Childers Memorial Hall (Isis District Pictorial War Memorial)

Details

Location Churchill & Lord Streets, Childers, Bundaberg - Queensland, Australia
Type memorial
Description

The Isis District War Memorial and Council Chambers is a one story masonry building, and the western wing of the building accommodates the War Memorial room. The War Memorial is entered via a sloping ramp and through a pair of tall, timber panelled doors. Dark timber honour boards stretch across all four walls of the room. There are two boards on the eastern wall, the upper one is in memory of the men who died in action in World War Two and is surmounted by an ornate timber pediment. The lower boards are in memory of the men who died in World War One. The boards are inscribed with gilt lettering and have a row of copper plaques mounted upon them. Each plaque is dedicated to the memory of an individual soldier and is embossed with the years of the war, the badge of the Australian Imperial Force and an oval-shaped photograph of the soldier framed by a pair of weeping women and the words “in memory of”. The soldiers’ names are engraved on small plaques below. The plaques for World War One are brass and for World War Two, chrome. The room is listed on the Queensland Heritage Register.

Source: Monument Australia

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Built Not yet discovered
Opened 25 April 1926
Inscription

ISIS DISTRICT WAR MEMORIAL

Commemoration Tablet

This Memorial Hall was opened on ANZAC Day April 25th 1926

Condition

Good

Names

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HALL, Edward

Service number 2430
Private
41st Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 9 Apr 1870

HARLEY, John

Service number 1688A
Private
25th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1891

KELLY, Frederick Charles

Service number 1706
Private
31st Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1890

NEVILLE, Francis Clair

Service number QX3323
Private
2nd/15th Infantry Battalion
Australian Military Forces (Army WW2)
Born 6 Jan 1919

MORTENSEN, Reginald George

Service number QX21230
Lance Corporal
2nd/25th Infantry Battalion
Australian Military Forces (Army WW2)
Born 23 Aug 1920

TAYLOR, George

Service number 3655
Second Lieutenant
2nd Pioneer Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1889

EWING, Percy Ernest Neil

Service number QX14948
Private
2nd/25th Infantry Battalion
Australian Military Forces (Army WW2)
Born 29 Sep 1911

LIST, Stephen McCarthy

Service number 425175
Flight Sergeant
No. 49 Squadron (RAF)
Royal Air Force
Born 5 Jul 1921

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