Numurkah and District War Memorial

Details

Location Tocumwal Road & Saxton Street, Numurkah, Moira - Victoria, Australia
Type memorial
Description

Grey granite obelisk on a 3-stepped granite base and is topped by a marble Winged Victory female statue. In front of the monument and at its base is a white marble statue of a World War One soldier holding a bronze rifle in the arms reversed position. The statue is supported by a representation of a rock.

Built Not yet discovered
Opened 16 November 1929 by Pompy Elliott
Inscription

Erected By The Residents of
NUMURKAH AND DISTRICT
To The Memory Of Those
Who Paid The Supreme Sacrifice
And In Honour Of
Those Who Served In The
GREAT WAR 1914 - 1919

[ Names ]

"Deep Graved In Every British Heart
O Never Let Their Names Depart."

[ Names ]

Back Inscription
Service Women 1939 - 1945
[ Names ]

Additional Service Personnel Not Previously Mentioned

Boer War
[ Names ]

WW1
[ Names ]

WW2
[ Names ]

Vietnam
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Sudan South Africa (Boer War)
1885 1899 - 1902

China (Boxer Rebellion) First World War
1900 - 1901 1914 - 1918

North Russia Relief Force Second World War
1918 - 1919 1939 - 1945

Occupation of Japan Korean War
1946 - 1952 1950 - 1953

Malayan Emergency Vietnam War
1950 - 1960 1962 - 1975

Indonesian Confrontation First Gulf War
1963 - 1966 1990 - 1991

Afghanistan Second Gulf War
2001 - 2013 2003 - 2009

Peacekeeping
1947 - Present

Right Side Inscription
Erected By The Residents of
NUMURKAH AND DISTRICT
To The Memory Of Those
Who Paid The Supreme Sacrifice
And In Honour Of
Those Who Served In The
2nd WORLD WAR 1939 -1945
AND THE VIETNAM WAR

[ Names ]

"Deep Graved In Every British Heart
O Never Let Their Names Depart."

[ Names ]

Plaque :

This Memorial Was Updated In The
Centenary Year Of Settlement Of
The Numurkah District 1975

Condition

Good

Names

Showing 8 people of interest from memorial

GREEN, Fletcher William Randall

Service number 408829
Flight Sergeant
No. 466 Squadron (RAAF)
Royal Australian Air Force
Born 9 Aug 1919

WILLIAMS, Charles Walter

Service number 282
Private
14th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 21 Jun 1887

SIZER, Leonard

Service number 3572A
Sergeant
6th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1

WAITE, William

Service number N102403
Private
4th Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1
Born 27 Sep 1888

LARKIN, Andrew Richard

Service number 3867
Gunner
1st Field Artillery Brigade
AIF WW1
Born 12 Aug 1892

SIZER, Arthur Albert

Service number 3610
Private
57th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1894

SELLECK, Frances Palmer

Service number 121
Captain
24th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born Sep 1895

WHYTE, Charles

Service number 4620
Private
5th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1880

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