Lara and District Memorial Gates

Details

Location Sports Ground, Walkers Road, Lara, Greater Geelong - Victoria, Australia
Type memorial_gates
Description

Grey Granite Pillars with black wrought iron gates

Built Barklamb Brothers (Caulfield, VIC)
Opened Not yet discovered
Inscription

(Outer Pillar)
1914
(Plaque)
KOREAN WAR
1950 -1953 1953 -1956
Active Service Peacekeeping

(Inner Pillar)
LARA AND DISTRICT

THEIR GLORY SHALL NOT
BE BLOTTED OUT
+
THE SUPREME SACRIFICE
(Names)

(Names)

(Inner Pillar)
WAR MEMORIAL
(Names)

(Outer Pillar)
1918
(Plaque)
AVENUE OF HONOUR
THIS PLAQUE HAS BEEN ERECTED TO COMMEMORATE THE PLANTING OF THE AVENUE OF HONOUR IN WALKERS ROAD, LARA, ON THE 28TH AUGUST, 1948. WITH GENEROUS SUPPORT FROM THE SHIRE COUNCIL AND THE LOCAL COMMUNITY, A LARA MEMORIAL COMMITTEE FORMED IN 1946, PLANNED AND FINANCED THE AVENUE, AS A PERPETUAL TRIBUTE TO THE MEN AND WOMEN FROM THE LARA DISTRICT, NAMED HEREUNDER, WHO SERVED IN THE AUSTRALIAN AND/OR ALLIED ARMED FORCES OF WORLD WAR 11, 1939 -1945.
THE GOLDEN LAMBERTIANA TREES, NEAR THE WORLD WAR 1 MEMORIAL GATES, STAND IN SACRED MEMORY OF THE SIX MEN WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR KING AND COUNTRY AND THE ORDINARY LAMBERTIANA TREES ARE A TRIBUTE TO THE EIGHTY-FOUR SONS AND DAUGHTERS OF LARA, WHO PLAYED A NOT-INCONSIDERABLE PART IN ENSURING FINAL VICTORY.
ALSO, RECOGNISED WITH HONOUR AND NAMED ON THIS PLAQUE ARE THE MEN, FROM THIS DISTRICT, WHO SERVED IN THE BATTLE ZONES OF SUBSEQUENT CONFLICTS.
"GREATER LOVE HATH NO MAN"
(NAMES)
THEY UPHELD THE TRADITIONS OF ANZAC
(NAMES)
VIETNAM 1962 - 1973
(NAMES)
UNVEILED BY CR MARIO GRGIC, PRESIDENT OF THE SHIRE OF CORIO, ON ANZAC SUNDAY, 23RD APRIL 1989.

Condition

Good

Names

Showing 6 people of interest from memorial

COLLINS, Raymond

Service number 1329
Private
5th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 5 Nov 1891

CASHMORE, Arthur

Service number 932
Private
4th Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1

EDOLS, Ross Worthington

Service number 1160
Driver
2nd Divisional Ammunition Column
AIF WW1
Born 15 Dec 1895

CASHMORE, John Albert

Service number 933
Sergeant
4th Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1

CONNOP, Edward Joseph

Service number 2621
Sergeant
7th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1895

GABRIELSON, John Eric

Service number 2861
Private
1st Machine Gun Company
AIF WW1
Born 19 Mar 1897

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