Virtual
War Memorial
Australia

Its erection was sponsored by a local resident and retired Naval Officer Commander Frank Gardner VD (Volunteer Decoration) while the pedestal and setting were designed by a local architect Edward Tingle. A local stone mason Thomas Brown carved the pedestal while the marble soldier atop the memorial was carved to order by an artisan in Italy. The soldier is carved with arms reversed and head bowed. The pedestal is carved from Bowral Trachyte with four marble Corinthian columns at each corner. Marble plaques are set on the four faces of the pedestal, the main plaque facing east and the remaining four faces containing a list of the dead from the local area.

The pedestal is unusual in that it incorporates a drinking fountain (a similar design stands at Thirroul), it is also rather ornate in style and in this is representative of memorials designed early in the war (see the similarly ornate early war memorial at Balmain). Later memorials from the Great War tended to be less ornate.