Townsville Cenotaph

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Location Anzac Memorial Park, The Strand, Townsville, Queensland, Australia
Type memorial
Description

ANZAC Memorial Park on the Strand is also home to the cenotaph, where ANZAC Day ceremonies are held. What we now call the cenotaph, in ANZAC Park, was originally called the ‘Soldier’s Memorial’. Built in 1923-24, by local stonemasons Melrose and Fenwick, what we now call the cenotaph, is a war memorial that was originally also a clocktower. It was once a functional clock. Standing at just over 7.5 metres tall, it’s made of large blocks of grey granite, which sit atop a marble base. At the base of the tower, marble tablets with lead lettering list the names of World War I casualties. The clock faces are no longer on the memorial.

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Built Built in 1923-24, by local stonemasons Melrose and Fenwick
Opened 25 April 1924 by Sir Matthew Nathan, Governor of Queesland
Inscription

ERECTED
TO THE GLORIOUS MEMORY
OF THE BRAVE MEN AND BOYS
OF TOWNSVILLE
WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES
IN THE GREAT WAR
1914 ---- 1918

"The Moments pass; but never shall die
The Memory of our honoured Dead,
Who, marching whither Duty led,
With Death met Immortality."

The Names of Those who paid the Price
For Us, and for the Land we love,
Be Beacon-fires to all who move
On lowlier ways of sacrifice:

P.F. ROWLAND.

"GREATER LOVE
HATH NO MAN THAN THIS "

(Names)

FOR GOD
HOME AND HUMANITY

(Names)

Condition

Good

Names

Showing 8 people of interest from memorial

MURRAY, Murdock Ross

Service number 7734
Lance Corporal
15th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 6 Jun 1895

THOMSON, Robert Percy

Service number 433
Sergeant
2nd Light Horse Brigade Field Ambulance
AIF WW1
Born 20 Jun 1874

TOUCH, John Henry Frederick

Service number 6851
Private
52nd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born Feb 1892

BURSTAL, Richard Stewart

Second Lieutenant
1st Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 14 Oct 1891

REDPATH, George

Service number 3152
Private
42nd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1 Feb 1896

APLIN, Gerald Edward

Service number 2108
Private
25th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 22 Jul 1883

CRAIES, William Alexander

Major
52nd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 19 May 1886

FOOT, Alexander Madden

Service number 244
Trooper
5th Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1
Born 15 Jul 1892

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