Parkes & District Cenotaph

Details

Location Cooke Park, Short & Welcome Streets, Parkes, New South Wales, Australia
Type memorial
Description

A memorial that honours all of the military personnel who failed to return home after military actions.

The memorial has five steles situated on plinth 1500 mm tall, 200 mm depth and 900 mm wide. Each stele depicts graphics representing each conflict as described:

WWI - Simpson and his donkey
WW2 - Fuzzy Wuzzy and wounded soldier on Kokoda Trail
Korea - Hill
Vietnam - Operation Ulmarah depicting helicopters and troops
Centre stele - 'Peacekeepers' with graphic of a dove
The plinth is 600 mm high, 450 mm in depth and 14 metres wide.

Top of steps to plinth 2000mm and each of 5 steps is 1200mm wide.

The cenotaph is constructed of granite with bronze art design.

(Names listed according to Register of War Memorials in NSW website)

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Built Not yet discovered
Opened 23 April 2004
Inscription

First World War
1914 -1918
Parkes ( Names)
Alectown (Names)
Bogan Gate (Names)
Bruie Plains (Name)
Peak Hill (Names)
Tichbourne (Names)
Trundle (Names)
Tullamore (Names)
Wongalea (Names)
Yarrabandai (Names)

Second World War
1939 -1945
Parkes (Names)
Alectown (Names)
Bogan Gate (Names)
Peak Hill (Names)
Trundle (Names)
Tullamore (Names)

Korean War
1950 -1953
Parkes (Names)
Bogan Gate (Name)

Vietnam War
Parkes (Names)

LEST WE FORGET

Sudan June 1885.
Boer War 1899 - 1902.
Boxer Uprising 1900 - 1901.
Malayan Emergency 1950 - 1960.
Confrontation (Indonesia) 1964 - 1966.
Gulf War (Middle East) 1990 - 1991.
Afghanistan 2001 -2002.
Iraq 2003.
Peacekeeping

Condition

Good

Names

Showing 8 people of interest from memorial

BINGHAM, Eric Bertram

Service number NX33411
Private
Born 9 Dec 1918

GRADY, Ernest John

Service number 37501
Sergeant
Repair and Servicing Units
Royal Australian Air Force
Born 14 Sep 1911

SQUIERS, Sinclair Sutherland

Service number 80539
Warrant Officer
Born 5 Jan 1924

BUERCKNER, Thomas

Service number NX123200
Lance Sergeant
General / Motor Transport Company/ies (WW2)
Australian Military Forces (Army WW2)
Born 6 Oct 1919

POWTER, Douglas Roy James

Service number 2782783
Private
6th Battalion
The Royal Australian Regiment (6RAR)
Australian Army (Post WW2)
Born 19 Apr 1945

MACDONALD, Rowallan George

Service number NX20000
Private
2nd/20th Infantry Battalion
Australian Military Forces (Army WW2)
Born 15 Sep 1904

DARKEN, Raymond De Champfleur

Service number 411096
Flight Sergeant
No. 207 Squadron (RAF)
Royal Air Force
Born 11 Jan 1917

MOUNTAIN, Charles Beecroft

Service number NX24055
Private
2nd/20th Infantry Battalion
Australian Military Forces (Army WW2)
Born 1 Sep 1903

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