Gloucester Memorial Clock Tower

Details

Location Gloucester Memorial Park, Hume & Bent Streets, Gloucester, Gloucester Shire - New South Wales, Australia
Type clock_tower
Description

Red Brick Clock tower

The Honour Roll is inscribed on a large polished black marble tablet, well off the ground of the Town Clock concrete base. It has TEN columns of names (although the tenth column is mostly for added names, for the Korean/Malaya Conflict, and the Vietnam soldiers).

Built Monument Designer: Messrs F. G .& A. C. Castleden, Newcastle (architects) Monument Manufacturer: Mr Isaac, Gloucester (builder)
Opened 20 May 1931 by Brigadier General G. McArthur Onslow D.S.O. G.M.G.
Inscription

The Great War, 1914 - 19

This Memorial Was Erected By The People Of The Gloucester District To The Undying Memory Of Our Glorious Dead.

They shall not grow old, as we that are left grow old,
Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn,
At the going down of the sun and in the morning,
We shall remember them.

This tablet was unveiled by Brigadier-General G. Macarthur Onslow, C.M.G., D.S.O., V.D.
20th June, 1931.

Plaque :

In memory of the fallen & of those who served in
Malaya 1948 - 1960
Korea 1950 - 1954
Borneo 1962 - 1966
Vietnam 1966 - 1971

Plaque :

In memory of the fallen & of those who served in
World War II 1939 - 1945

Left Side Inscription
Gloucester Honour Roll 1914 - 1918

[ Names ]

Right Side Inscription
Gloucester Honour Roll 1939 - 1945

[ Names ]

Gloucester Honour Roll
Gulf War
1990 - 1991
[ Names ]

Cambodia
1991 - 1993
[ Name ]

Somalia
1992 - 1994
[ Name ]

Rwanda
1994 - 1995
[ Name ]

East Timor
1999 - 2003
[ Names ]

Iraq
2003 - 2009
[ Names ]

Afghanistan
2001 -
[ Names ]

Condition

Good

Names

Showing 1 person of interest from memorial

SOARS, Herbert Henry

Service number 3627
Private
2nd Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 21 Mar 1886

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