Mansfield War Memorial Gates

Details

Location Mansfield Recreation Reserve, Highett Street, Mansfield, Victoria, Australia
Type memorial_gates
Description

The Mansfield Fallen Soldiers Memorial, which takes the form of a large archway to the recreation reserve, was unveiled on Saturday last by Major General Tivey. The archway, which cost nearly £1000, bears the names of 79 district soldiers who fell in the war.

Benalla Standard (Vic), 15 November 1921.

Built Not yet discovered
Opened 12 November 1921 by Major General Tivey
Inscription

[On Archway & gates]
LEST WE FORGET.
ERECTED BY THE RESIDENTS OF MANSFIELD
AND DISTRICT TO THE MEMORY OF THE
FALLEN SOLDIERS IN THE GREAT WAR 1914 - 19

Left Side Inscription
[Names]
[Far left plaque]
SECOND WORLD WAR
1939 - 1945
[Names]

[On left wall]
Vietnam Plaque
Peacekeeping Plaque
Afghanistan Plaque
East Timor Plaque
Iraq Plaque

Right Side Inscription
[Right Plaque]
[Names]
[Far Right Plaque]
VIETNAM
[Name]

[On right wall]
Boer War Plaque
World War 1 Plaque
World War Two Plaque
Malayan Emergency & Indonesian Confrontation Plaque
Korean War Plaque

Condition

Good

Names

Showing 8 people of interest from memorial

BLACK, Matthew Richard

Service number 1878
Private
57th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born Mar 1897

ARBUTHNOT, Stephen John

Service number 876
Trooper
8th Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1
Born 21 Aug 1894

FORSYTH, Alexander Gibson

Service number 3109
Trooper
4th Light Horse Regiment
AIF WW1
Born 16 Oct 1891

FOLKS, Norman Wakefield

Service number 531
Private
14th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1888

RUTLEDGE, Noel Beresford Forster

Service number 531
Lieutenant
3rd Division Medium and Heavy Trench Mortar Batteries
AIF WW1
Born 1886

FACEY, Stephen George

Service number 5366
Second Lieutenant
59th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1887

CRESPIN, Rupert Henry

Service number 34053
Gunner
11th Field Artillery Brigade
AIF WW1

NOLAN, William

Service number 3201
Sergeant
58th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 4 Sep 1888

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