Berwick War Memorial

Details

Location High Street & Clyde Road, Berwick, Casey - Victoria, Australia
Type memorial
Description

Grey Granite

Remembrance Day was fittingly chosen for the unveiling and re-dedication of the attractive War Memorial which nestles at the foot of the Berwick Hill on the Boulevard. Originally erected as a tribute to the district’s fallen in World War, the memorial was recently added to, and the impressive Remembrance Day service, held in the presence of a representative gathering of district citizens, re-dedicated it to those who served during both wars. Cr. Claude Harris, president of the Berwick R.S.L., introduced Major General B. M. Morris, C.B.S., D.S.O., of Upper Beaconsfield, and Padre Phillips.

Padre Phillips performed the impressive re-dedication service and in unveiling the memorial Major-General Morris gave an inspiring address, in which he appealed to all to do their utmost to see that those who had given then lives in their country’s cause, had not done so in vain. On behalf of the local R.S.L., Cr. Harris placed a wreath on the memorial, and a number of local residents paid similar tributes to the memory of the fallen. Col. O. B. Williams, M.C., secretary of the local R.S.L., and those who assisted him, are to be complimented on the excellence of the ceremony and the attractive appearance which the memorial and its surrounds presented.
Dandenong Journal (Vic), 16 November 1949.

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Built Not yet discovered
Opened 11 November 1949
Inscription

For King and Country.
Erected By Residents Of
Berwick
In Memory Of The Men
Who Fell In The
Great War 1914 - 1919
Great War 1939 - 1945

Left Side Inscription
1914 - 1919
[Names]
World War
1939 - 1945
[Names]

Inscription in Proximity
New Zealand Wars 1860 - 1861
Sudan Campaign 1885
South African War 1899 - 1902
Boxer Rebellion 1900 - 1901
World War I 1914 - 1918
World War II 1939 - 1945
Peacekeeping Operations 1947 -
Korean War 1950 - 1953
Malayan Emergency 1950 - 1960
Indonesian Confrontation 1962 - 1966
Vietnam Conflict 1962 - 1973
Namibia 1989 - 1990
Gulf War 1990 - 1991
Cambodia 1991 - 1993
Somalia 1992 - 1994
East Timor 1999 - 2004
Afghanistan 2001 -

Condition

Good

Names

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MANSON, Herbert John Maxwell

Service number 2717
Private
60th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 4 May 1892

MILLER, Alexander Henderson

Lieutenant
57th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 21 Nov 1885

NELSON, John Henry

Service number VX44200
Corporal
2nd/21st Infantry Battalion
Australian Military Forces (WW2)
Born 13 Feb 1919

LYON, Charles Hill

Service number 412
Lieutenant
Imperial Camel Corps
AIF WW1

LYALL, Edmund Ramsden

Service number 3170
Private
2nd Pioneer Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1894

ELMES, Herbert Oliver

Service number 1355
Private
1st Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1873

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