Broken Hill War Memorial

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Location Sulphide & Argent Streets, Broken Hill, Broken Hill Municipality - New South Wales, Australia
Type memorial
Description

A sculptured bronze war memorial entitled "The Bomber" by artist Charles Web Gilbert. There is half-metre tall version of this statue in the Hall of Valour in the Australian War Memorial, Canberra.

There is another statue of a soldier in a different pose, of similar proportions and also executed by Charles Web-Gilbert, in Rose Park, Adelaide and in Shepparton, Victoria.

He also executed the first of the famous dioramas in the Australian War Memorial, and the original 2nd Division Memorial at Mont St Quentin in France., which was destroyed by Nazi occupiers in WW2.

"The Bomber' stands on a cairn of rough cut Harcourt granite and this rests on a platform of three surrounding steps. It depicts a hatless soldier in the act of throwing a 'Mills Bomb' hand grenade, his rifle slung over his shoulder while doing so.

There are 4 bronze tablets with the names of 365 fallen from the district. The monument reaches a height of 6.4 metres.

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Built Charles Web Gilbert
Opened 11 October 1925 by Sír John Monash
Inscription

To the memory of the men of Broken Hill and District who gave their lives in the Great War

1914 - 1918

Their name liveth for evermore

They were a wall unto us both by night and day

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Left Side Inscription
[ Names ]

Back Inscription
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Right Side Inscription
Web Gilbert 1924 Sculptor

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Condition

Good

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Names

Showing 8 people of interest from memorial

MAUDE, Cornwallis Charles Wyndham

Service number 557
Second Lieutenant
Born 1 Nov 1876

GRAY, John

Service number 1343
Private
10th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1

INGLIS, William

Service number 5691
Private
27th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 10 Aug 1889

MCLEOD, Keith Murdoch

Service number 3201
Private
50th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1

STANBRIDGE, Charles Roy

Service number 297
Private
10th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 18 Dec 1894

CONNOCK, Edward

Service number 486
Sergeant
10th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 31 Jul 1884

MAIDEN, Walter Richard

Service number 7963
Driver

FEATHERSTONEHAUGH-WOOSTER, Robert Albert

Service number 2809
Private
43rd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 20 Sep 1885

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