Maryborough Queen's Park War Memorial

Details

Location Bazaar & Sussex Streets, Queens Park, Maryborough, Qld. 4650, Maryborough, Fraser Coast - Queensland, Australia
Type memorial
Description

Obelisk at the entrance to Queens Park in memory of Maryborough’s fallen soldiers. The memorial is surmounted by a winged figure of "Victory" with entrance gates to the park.

Designed by P.O.E. Hawkes
Manufactured by Anselm Olding (Sydney) and F.W. Webb

Built 1922
Opened 19 November 1922
Inscription

Front Inscription
LEST WE FORGET

NAMES OF MEN WHO ANSWERED THE CALL AND PAID THE SUPREME SACRIFICE IN DEFENDING THE BRITISH EMPIRE
(Names)

Left Side Inscription
NAMES OF MEN WHO ANSWERED THE CALL AND PAID THE SUPREME SACRIFICE IN DEFENDING THE BRITISH EMPIRE
(Names )

MARYBOROUGH'S GRATEFUL TRIBUTE TO HER GALLANT SONS WHO FELL IN THE GREAT WAR
1914 - 1918.
HONOURED IN LIFE - MOURNED IN DEATH

Right Side Inscription
"THE BRAVEST THING GOD EVER MADE:"
OUR DEATHLESS DEAD! NOT ONCE DISMAYED!
THEIRS THE "GREATER LOVE" —
OURS THE DEBT UNPAID.

Condition

Good

Names

Showing 8 people of interest from memorial

HOCKLEY, Rupert Reginald

Service number OFFICER
Major
2nd Pioneer Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1 Feb 1878

RANKIN, William Evelyn Dunsynne

Service number OFFICER
Lieutenant
29th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 2 Apr 1888

BRIMS, George William James

Service number 18871
Driver
4th Field Company Engineers
AIF WW1

BROWN, Carl Oscar

Service number COMMI...
Second Lieutenant
9th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1

ZARNKE, Albert

Service number 575
Private
9th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born Apr 1893

BROOKS, George Weale

Service number 5147
Private
41st Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 26 Sep 1878

BOSEL, Charles Frederick

Service number 4747
Private
15th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 31 Jan 1891

PLUMB, Richard Joseph

Service number 4810A
Corporal
53rd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 13 Nov 1890

Showing 4 of 14 images.
Click images to start slideshow.