Toowoomba War Memorial (Mothers' Memorial)

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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

RIGHETTI, Alan Serafino

Lieutenant
2nd Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1

BROWN, William James Lamington

Service number 3369
Private
49th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 27 Dec 1896

ARNOTT, Alan Ross Airly

Service number 426819
Pilot Officer
No. 2 Operational Training Unit Mildura
Royal Australian Air Force
Born 25 Jun 1924

BASHFORD, Percival Valentine

Service number 414881
Flight Sergeant
Born 14 Feb 1920

MANN, Vivian

Service number 3092
Private
23rd Machine Gun Company
AIF WW1
Born 1899

GRATTON, Joseph

Service number 2872
Private

JAMES, Barry

Service number 1201885
Private
Born 7 Jul 1948

NEWTON, William Hardy

Service number 3170
Private
25th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 25 Feb 1897

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