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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FOX, Arthur Leonard

Service number 15727
Flying Officer
1413 Flight (RAF)
Royal Australian Air Force
Born 3 Sep 1919

MUNGOMERY, Gordon

Service number 2459
Private
45th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 7 Oct 1889

CARR-BOYD, Beresford Reginald

Service number NX22438
Corporal
2nd/17th Infantry Battalion
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 30 Apr 1918

EVERETT, John Raymond

Service number 422153
Flight Sergeant
Born 22 Sep 1921

PORTER, William James

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

BLAND, Archibald Evatt

Service number 234
Second Corporal
1st Field Company Engineers
AIF WW1
Born 1885

COURTNEY, John Classon

Service number 1006
Lieutenant
No. 4 Squadron
Australian Flying Corps
AIF WW1
Born May 1893

HANSON, Joseph Edward

Service number 1196
Corporal
4th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1892

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