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

DAEBRITZ, Walter

Service number 1528
Private
11th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1

FOX, Marshall Tregellis

Service number 1462
Private
11th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born Feb 1896

MEYER, August Carl

Service number 1757
Sapper
2nd Divisional Signal Company
AIF WW1
Born 30 Aug 1896

CHEESEWRIGHT, Frederick William

Service number WX3658
Corporal
2nd/16th Infantry Battalion
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 17 Aug 1915

RABBISH, Rupert Gordon

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

NASH, Claude Ocea

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

WERRETT, Herbert Stanley

Service number WX7166
Private
2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 1 Aug 1900

PREEDY, Eric Lincoln

Service number WX7416
Private
2nd/4th Machine Gun Battalion
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 5 Jul 1913

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