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Location Piccadilly Road and Old Mount Barker Road, Crafers, Adelaide Hills - South Australia, Australia
Type memorial
Description

A polished red granite memorial comprising an obelisk surmounted on a capped pedestal and two tier base. This is surmounted on a rough-cut granite block sur-base and two-tier concrete base and slab. At the base of the obelisk on each face are crossed rifles; all details are in gold leaf. Originally the memorial was mounted in the middle of the road junction, it has since been relocated on the northern side of Piccadilly Road.

Built Not yet discovered
Opened Not yet discovered
Inscription

Face: Pedestal cap:

THE GREAT WAR.1914-1919.

 

Upper tier:

THE ABOVE BRAVE MADE THESUPREME SACRIFICE.

Lower tier:

THIS MONUMENT WAS ERECTED BY THERESIDENTS OF THE DISTRICT OF CRAFERS IN MEMORY OF THE BRAVE WHO FELL INTHE GREAT WAR.

Block:

LEST WE FORGET

Left:Pedestal cap:

THE GREAT WAR.1914-1919.

 

Upper tier:

THE ABOVE BRAVE MADE THE SUPREME SACRIFICE.

Back:Pedestal cap:

THE GREAT WAR.1914-1919.

 

Upper tier:

THE ABOVE BRAVE MADE THESUPREME SACRIFICE.

Right:Pedestal cap:

THE GREAT WAR.1914-1919.

 

Upper tier:

THE ABOVE BRAVE MADE THESUPREME SACRIFICE

Condition

MAINTAINED BY: Adelaide Hills Council

PECULIARITIES/DAMAGE: Nil

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Names

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SCOTT, Kenneth Lancelot

Service number 1980
Private
27th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 24 Aug 1895

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DRIVER, William Hurtle

Service number 2125
Corporal
51st Infantry Battalion (WW1)
AIF WW1
Born 19 Dec 1882

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COLLINS, Algernon Thomas

Service number 2047
Private
40th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born Feb 1890

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LONG, Roy William

Service number 3664
Lance Corporal
50th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 17 Apr 1898

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NICHOLAS, Clarence Roy

Service number 5847
Private
48th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 24 Jan 1894

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UDY, Leslie Leonard

Service number 711
Private
27th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 4 Jul 1892

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WINTER, Percy Charles

Service number 3969
Private
10th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1 Apr 1894

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GASKELL, Henry Knight

Service number 2375
Private
20th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 12 Dec 1886

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