Upper Coomera Memorial

Details

Location Oxenford-Tambourine & Charlies Crossing Roads, Upper Coomera, Gold Coast - Queensland, Australia
Type memorial
Description

The life-sized digger stands with eyes down and arms reversed on a typical Petrie base. The sandstone memorial stands on granite blocks surrounded by a white wooden fence with white corner piers. It is on the top of a hill at Upper Coomera. The front of the slouch hat has been broken off. There is a flagpole to the immediate right of the memorial.
The memorial is on a wide stretch of bitumen between the entrance to a property, Bonnie Brae, and the Tamborine Road.

The model for this digger was Arthur Rex Fell.

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Built A. L. Petrie & Sons (Toowong, QLD)
Opened 18 May 1918 by Mr E.H. Macartney M.L.A.
Inscription

This memorial was erected by the residents in honour of the brave lads of the Coomera District who fell in the Great War

1914 - 1919

"They gave their all.
Let you who pass, saluting here their names,
See that through you no slur, nor stain, nor shame
Falls on the land for which they gave their lives
- AUSTRALIA."

Left Side Inscription
[ Names ]

Back Inscription
In memory of those who paid the supreme sacrifice

World War II

1939 - 1945

[ Names ]

Right Side Inscription
[ Names ]

Condition

Good

Names

Showing 8 people of interest from memorial

LANE, Albert

Service number 414701
Flight Sergeant
No. 461 Squadron (RAAF)
Royal Australian Air Force
Born 11 Sep 1915

LERGESSNER, Walter Henry

Service number 3355
Gunner
11th Field Artillery Brigade
AIF WW1
Born 25 Nov 1895

BEATTIE, Edwin

Service number 2389
Private
47th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 14 Mar 1894

BIGNELL, Sydney Kingston

Service number 3526
Private
31st Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 13 Dec 1892

JENYNS, Joshua Ernest

Service number 2170
Private
25th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 12 Jan 1888

LANE, Solomon James

Service number 2348
Private
41st Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born Dec 1994

BEATTIE, George

Service number 2388
Private
47th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 24 Sep 1888

LANE, Solomon James

Service number 2348
Private
41st Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born Dec 1994

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