Subiaco Fallen Soldiers Memorial

Details

Location Rankin Gardens, Rokeby & Hamersley Roads , Subiaco, Nedlands - Western Australia, Australia
Type clock_tower
Description

The Memorial is a red brick neo-classical clock tower with white plaster embellishments and a copper conical roof. There is a single clock face with roman figures facing south-east. A door way in the rear of the tower leads to street level.

Built Monument Designer: E. H. Hamilton Monument Manufacturer: F. E. Sedgley
Opened 25 November 1923 by Governor of Western Australia, Sir Francis Newdegate
Inscription

Front Inscription
2nd World War
1939 - 1945

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Subiaco Fallen Soldiers Memorial
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This stone was laid by His Excellency the Governor Sir Francis Alexander Newdegate, K.C.M.G.

17th December 1922.

Plaque :

In memory of the fallen from Borneo, Korea, Malaya and Vietnam

Duty nobly done

Plaque :

Research in 2007 has added the following names of Subiaco servicemen who died in action
World War 1
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World War 2
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Lest We Forget
11th November 2008

Plaque :

This Fallen Soldiers` War Memorial was refurbished in April 2005 by the City of Subiaco conjointly with the Subiaco R.S.L. Sub Branch and with the assistance from Lotterywest and the Department of Veterans` Affairs

This plaque has been donated by Dr. Tom Dadour

Left Side Inscription
Their name liveth for evermore

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Right Side Inscription
The Great War. 1914 - 1919

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Condition

Good

Names

Showing 8 people of interest from memorial

BOSWELL, John Henry

Service number 891
Private
32nd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1890

BROWN, Eric Gordon

Service number WX20198
Private
2nd/28th Infantry Battalion
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 3 Jan 1904

CODY, Bernard Francis

Service number 437870
Flight Sergeant
No. 467 Squadron (RAAF)
Royal Australian Air Force
Born 22 Apr 1921

AARONS, John Fullarton

Service number 2868
Private
16th Infantry Battalion (WW1)
AIF WW1
Born Jan 1882

MCKENZIE, Alexander

Service number 744
Private
28th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1

RABBISH, Rupert Gordon

Service number 4729A
Corporal
51st Infantry Battalion (WW1)
AIF WW1
Born 20 Nov 1891

GRAHAM, Robert Tedcastle

Service number 1164
Private
28th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1895

NASH, Claude Ocea

Service number WX17363
Private
2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 10 May 1919

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