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Location The Corso, Manly, Manly Vale - New South Wales, Australia
Type memorial
Description

Extract from NSW State Library Memorials Register

The memorial is a polished granite column sitting on a large rectangular base of the same material with six buttresses.

Atop the column is a globe of the world with Australia clearly visible and the word ANZAC engraved on a band circling the globe.

The base contains 9 plaques on which the names of veterans, who have died in the various wars, are engraved and gilded. In addition, there is a series of five bronze relief sculptures depicting various World War 1 and related scenes, an inscription and dolphins, representing Manly's seaside location.

A flagpole stands to the east of the memorial.

A fuller description of the memorial and its history may be found on the Manly Council website.

In August 2016, an additional Vietnam veteran's name was added WO2 R V Lees - Successful search for remains of missing SASR soldier in Vietnam, John Morcombe, Manly Daily, September 9, 2016 2:49pm

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Built Not yet discovered
Opened 14 October 1916
Inscription

Front Inscription
1939 - 1945

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Plaque :

This Field of Remembrance was dedicated by the Council of the Municipality of Manly

To the imperishable memory of those members of the Australian Naval and Military Forces who enlisted from Manly and District and paid the supreme sacrifice during the Great War 1914 - 1918

Lest We Forget

Left Side Inscription
In memory of those gallant men of Manly who in the Great War so gloriously gave their lives for the sake of humanity and justice.

This memorial was erected by the family of Alan David Mitchell the first soldier of Manly to fall.

1916


Back Inscription
Korea Vietnam
1950 - 1953 1963 - 1973

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Afghanistan
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Right Side Inscription
1914 - 1918

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A little one shall become a thousand and a small one a strong nation Isaiah : 60.22

1914 - 1918

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Boer War
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Condition

Good

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Names

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BRODERICK, Hilary John

Service number 582
Driver
Born 1892

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PORTER, William James

Service number 1013
Private
13th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 23 Sep 1890

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MACPHEE, Kenneth Milton

Service number 1777
Private
3rd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1889

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DEVLIN, Errol Cappie Nepean

Service number 1166
Private
18th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1891

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SWEENEY, Ambrose

Service number 3950
Private
20th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 28 Apr 1892

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BREEDON, Harold

Service number 1514
Private
18th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 20 Jun 1887

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BOND, John Albert

Service number 21977
Warrant Officer Class 2
Born 15 Dec 1929

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ELLIOTT, Fred Elijah

Service number 1606
Private
17th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1896

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