Collector War Memorial

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Location Murray & Bourke Streets, Collector, Upper Lachlan Shire - New South Wales, Australia
Type memorial
Description

The memorial takes the form of a monument, and is erected in the centre of Collector at the cross roads. The monument Is placed on a platform 8ft. square by lft. 6in. high of rock-faced gray granite with four rock-faced and axed apex top posts at the corners. The platform is covered with slabs of sawn granite. The monument is fixed in the centre with the platform having a base of rock-face and margined edged granite with polished die for inscriptions, and is finished off with a moulded and carved cap. The whole work stands about ten feet high. A most unusual feature about the work is that the committee decided that they would have the monument worked from stone quarried in the Collector district and arranged with Mr. Turner, who sent men out and quarried the stone on Mr James Grainger's property at Oakdale, about five miles from Collector, sent the stone to Goulburn and worked it, and then carted it back to Collector.

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Built Not yet discovered
Opened 31 January 1920 by Mrs. Mclnerney, the oldest resident of the district.
Inscription

Erected by residents of Collector and District in memory of soldiers who fell in their country's service and in honour of those who enlisted

Great European War

1914 - 19.

Left Side Inscription
Enlisted & Returned

[ Names ]

Right Side Inscription
Fallen in their country`s service

[ Names ]

Condition

Good

Names

Showing 4 people of interest from memorial

SHERIDAN, Fred Parker

Service number N378493
Sergeant
Born 23 Sep 1894

SHERIDAN, Harry Heaslip

Service number 960A
Driver
12th Field Artillery Brigade
AIF WW1
Born 1892

SHERIDAN, William Henry

Service number 2146
Lance Corporal
35th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born Sep 1895

OLD, Aubrey Donald

Service number 7626
Driver
5th Field Artillery Brigade
AIF WW1
Born 1895

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