Toowoomba War Memorial (Mothers' Memorial)

Details

Location East Creek Park, Margaret Street, Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia
Type memorial
Description

Large Sandstone with Marble plates engraved with names in gold lettering.
WWI names are on flat sides
WW2 names are on angled sides

Affectionately known as the 'Mothers' Memorial"

The memorial constructed after the conclusion of World War 1 had four panels. Prior to its relocation in 1985 to the East Creek site, the Eastern panel below, representing the front of the memorial, faced toward the intersection of Ruthven and Margaret Streets. The three memorial tablets containing the names of those who died during World War I were placed alphabetically commencing on the northern face and proceeded anti-clockwise to the western and southern faces of the memorial.
The design of the Mothers’ Memorial being on an octagonal base was a perfect platform for the inclusion of additional memorial panels. The panels containing the names of those who sacrificed their lives in World War 2 were manufactured so that they could fit below the curved lip of the remaining four octagonal faces of the memorial commencing at the north-eastern face and placed anti-clockwise ending at the south-eastern face of the memorial.

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Built Not yet discovered
Opened 30 January 1922
Inscription

OUR GLORIOUS DEAD

TO THE MEMORY
OF THE GALLANT
MEN WHO GAVE
THEIR LIVES IN THE
GREAT WAR 1914 TO
1918 FOR THE SAKE
OF FREEDOM AND
JUSTICE

THEIR NAME LIVETH
FOR EVER MORE

(Names)

WORLD WAR II 1939 - 1945
(Names)

KOREA WAR 1951 - 1953
(Names)

VIETNAM
(Names)

Condition

Good

Names

Showing 8 people of interest from memorial

JOHNSTON, George Richard Somerville

Service number 163
Trooper
2nd Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1
Born 6 Feb 1894

SAVAGE, Thomas

Service number 4219
Private
25th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1887

HANNANT, Frederick

Service number 2149
Private
15th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 7 Mar 1894

QUINLAN, John

Service number 6171
Private
25th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1875

COUSENS, Sydney Leake

Service number 5322
Private
26th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 9 Jun 1885

HARDING, William Royland Baker

Service number 5350
Private
26th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1890

WIGGINS, Ernest Alfred

Service number 454
Private
2nd Light Horse Brigade Field Ambulance
AIF WW1
Born 1887

BARLOW, Sydney William

Major
11th Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1
Born 18 Nov 1867

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