New Norfolk War Memorial

Details

Location Circle & High Streets, New Norfolk, Derwent Valley - Tasmania, Australia
Type memorial
Description

Sandstone with large cross

Built Messrs Watson Bros (Hobart)
Opened 12 August 1922 by Sir John Gellibrand
Inscription

THIS MEMORIAL WAS ERECTED BY PUBLIC SUBSCRIPTION IN HONOUR OF THOSE WHO GAVE THEIR LIVES FOR THEIR COUNTRY THE EMPIRE.

"THEIR MEMORY LIVETH FOR EVERMORE"

THE SECOND WORLD WAR

THE KOREAN WAR

THE MALAYA EMERGENCY

THE INDONESIAN CONFRONTATION

THE VIETNAM WAR

Left Side Inscription
FOR KING AND COUNTRY.

THE SUPREME SACRIFICE (names)

Note : the “Tasmanian War Memorials Data Base” , compiled by Fred Thornett which is located at the State Library of Tasmania, contains a comprehensive listing of the names on this monument.

Back Inscription
THE GREAT WAR 1914 . 1919.

THIS DISTRICT WAS REPRESENTED BY 416 MEN AND 3 NURSES

PRINCIPAL BATTLES OUR MEN WERE ENGAGED IN GALLIPOLI LANDING, LONE PINE, PASSCHENDAELE, FRANCE, POZIERES, AND BULLECOURT. BELGIUM, MESSINES, VILLERS BRETTONEUX, ROMANI, PALESTINE, GAZA, JORDON VALLEY

Right Side Inscription
FOR KING AND COUNTRY.

THE SUPREME SACRIFICE (names)

Condition

Good

Names

Showing 8 people of interest from memorial

HARRIS, Harold Norman

Service number 2827
Private
4th Machine Gun Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 26 Nov 1897

CLARK, William John

Service number 1068
Private
26th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1896

PARSISSONS, James Sydney John

Service number 97
Driver
40th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 22 Jun 1895

MARTIN, Walter Patrick

Service number 6057
Private
12th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1894

HARRIS, William Henry

Service number 2828
Private
24th Machine Gun Company
AIF WW1
Born 5 Mar 1889

GITTUS, Leslie Albert

Service number 6832
Private
12th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 5 Aug 1892

PLUNKETT, Edwin William Duncan

Service number 2625
Private
40th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1890

JARVIS, Richard George

Service number 161
Private
12th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 7 Nov 1893

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