Booval War Memorial

Details

Location Cameron Park, Green Street, Booval, Ipswich - Queensland, Australia
Type memorial
Description

White Marble with red granite pillars, surmounted by a marble digger statue, smaller than life-sized standing at ease with arms reversed and supported by a tree stump. He stands with his feet slightly apart and the rifle rests beside one foot and is held across his body.

Built Monument Designer: Daphne Mayo & Frank Williams Monument Manufacturer: Frank Williams & Co (Ipswich, QLD)
Opened 15 February 1919 by Excellency the Governor Sir Hamilton J. Goold-Adams.
Inscription

For King and Empire

[ Names ]

Erected by the residents of Booval, Silkstone and Newtown

In honour of the brave men who enlisted in the A.I.F. during the Great War of 1914 to 1919.

This stone was laid by D. A. Gledson Esq M.L.A.

27·7·18

Condition

Good

Names

Showing 8 people of interest from memorial

YATES, Edward

Service number 1003
Private
42nd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 5 Jun 1888

FOOTE, Norman Victor

Service number 150
Trooper
2nd Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1
Born 3 Aug 1892

PEDLEY, Alfred

Service number 7039
Corporal
9th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born Mar 1895

WILKIE, James

Service number 62
Driver
5th Divisional Signal Company
AIF WW1
Born 7 Aug 1893

RICHARDS, Thomas Henry

Service number 1898A
Private
42nd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 10 Dec 1897

HINE, Henry George Reid

Service number 50738
Private
41st Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 30 Jun 1899

MATHEWSON, Robert

Service number 169
Private
41st Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 11 Jun 1897

LOYNES, James

Service number OFFICER
Major
11th Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1
Born 23 Dec 1862

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