Manly War Memorial NSW

Details

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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GOULD, Hubert Valentine

Service number OFFICER
Major
2nd Field Company Engineers
AIF WW1
Born 15 Feb 1887

SHORT, Edwin Douglas

Service number 1266
Sergeant
18th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1892

LUKER, Reginald

Service number NX193946
Private
Born 6 Jul 1925

GILLIES, William Keith

Service number 7073
Second Lieutenant
8th Field Company Engineers
AIF WW1
Born 8 Nov 1893

WAY, Alan Stanley

Service number 437634
Pilot Officer
No. 31 Squadron (RAAF)
Royal Australian Air Force
Born 1 Oct 1916

PORTER, Sidney George

Service number 4546A
Private
53rd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 24 Sep 1892

PICKERING, Aubrey George

Service number 4467
Private
1st Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1

MCPHERSON, Angus Cameron

Service number 54233
Private
34th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 2 Apr 1886

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