East Geelong War Memorial

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Location St Albans & Boundary Roads, East Geelong, City of Greater Geelong - Victoria, Australia
Type memorial
Description

Grey granite block with 4 large pillars supporting roof with white marble digger beside broken tree trunk

The committee of the East Geelong Soldiers' Memorial extend a personal invitation to members of the Fathers' Association and parents, relatives and friends of fallen soldiers to attend the unveiling of the memorial on Saturday next at the corner of St. Albans and Boundary roads, East Geelong, near the show grounds, at 3 o'clock. Drags, cabs and motors will run at 2 o'clock at the usual charges. The memorial is a beautiful work of art, and well worth a visit of inspection. The site of the memorial is known as Siberia Gate, on the east side of the show grounds. It has cost £600 to erect, and the whole of that amount is in hand. It bears the names of 45 district soldiers. Friends of the fallen and others knowing of names omitted from the memorial are requested to communicate with the secretary.
Geelong Advertiser (Vic), 10 November 1921.

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Built Not yet discovered
Opened 12 November 1921
Inscription

ANZAC

Erected By
The Residents Of
East Geelong St Albans & Moolap
In Honour Of The Men Of These Districts
Who Sacrificed Their Lives In The Great War
1914 - 19.

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Condition

Good

Names

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SULLIVAN, James

Service number 126
Captain
21st Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born Sep 1894

HARGREAVES, Ernest George

Service number 3542
Private
58th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 1887

RHIND, James Morison

Service number OFFICER
Lieutenant
60th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born 19 Apr 1888

PROFITT, John Walter Charles

Service number 9028
Lance Corporal
6th Field Ambulance
AIF WW1
Born Jun 1894

HIGGINS, James Ingersoll

Service number 2050
Private
29th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born Aug 1889

BRINSMEAD, Reginald William

Service number 64
Second Lieutenant
8th Infantry Battalion
AIF WW1
Born Mar 1893

CHEETHAM, Norman

Service number 1234A
Sapper
Born 1896

DUNCAN, Wallace Bruce

Service number 171A
Private
2nd Field Ambulance
AIF WW1
Born 6 Jan 1898

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